Garden in May 2011

Nariz, you have a lovely garden, especially with the backdrop of stone from the house. I have one of them there mini greenhouses too! Great arent they.

Yes, Tetrarch, unless there's a sudden gale and you haven't loaded it down with heavy stones and you have to jump over the wall ino the sheep compound to retrieve it! :oD

Oh dear, that sounds like the voice of experience!

LOL! I have a mini greenhouse like that one too..and it tried to get away as well! A friend sent me a fleece for it... but our sun must be very strong as the fleece and the plastic soon disintegrated and shredded...but the wire shelves are light and easy to move and I'm using mine outdoors.
This pic went to my fav's. your garden is wonderful! Are you in the lea of that lovely stone wall?..is it part of a building or is that the wall your neighbours built? It must be a wonderful micro-climate generator!

Thanks Lori. If you think of the village having been built on a downward slope on the side of a mountain, and the back wall of two of our downstairs rooms being 'underground', then the wall and outside stairs are on the lower level, while at the top of the outside stairs is a door to the little calle (street) outside. The wall continues all along our garden (wonderful for climbing grapes) and is stopping the meadow from sliding into our garden. I think if you look at previous photos on my page they will explain it better! When we're driving on a mountain road I often see what appears to be a 'cute little bungalow' but when seen from another angle I see there are two - or more! - floors built further down a hillside making it a three or four-storey casa. Hillsides are important growing areas in this region because - as you rightly say - they have their own little micro-climates and are, of course, great for growing grapes or vegetables that require lots of sun.

Positively thriving - lovely!

Looks great Nariz....

I love it, Nariz. the climate and topography dictate, "this is the way we do it here!" I find it such an interesting contrast to my spot. We also have lots of rocks ..but no one has put them to such good use. I noticed in my other garden that if I had a perennial that was looking like it might not make it to it's first winter, I would put a rock beside it. They warm the soil and hold the heat. the warmth must radiate off of your wall, and the mountain breezes moderate the heat...nature works, aye?

Sure does, Lori! :o)

lovely garden ~ i cant help admiring that wall ~ i would love that.

That's a brilliant idea Lori - about the rock. You're right up there with the professionals(!) - I'm just back from a lecture at a Garden School, and we were told that gravel around a plant would help to protect it and/or "let the roots go under a slab"!

I agree about the wall too, Sticki, would love that in my garden too.

Thanks guys - but it does have its down side! The part of the wall you can see has been pointed, but along the whole length of the garden there is no pointing between the stones so, happily, we have wall lizards in there by the dozen but - very UNhappily - it's terraced housing for SNAILS!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you Marguerite.