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This was the first area we tackled—after planting the osteospermums round the carob tree at the front of the house. It is to the right of the front door as you approach the house and is a retrospective to the Japanese garden that took us four years to build in Little Clacton...and it is the only part of this garden that will be overtly Japanese. But watch out for gravel, stepping stones, bamboo, etc. in other areas!
We bought a Spanish bush as one of the centre pieces because it was so pretty—it has little tiny flowers spread through the branches in the centre of the bush, and overall it is a nice symmetrical shape. We also bought a prostrate juniper, and pinched a large rock that had fallen off the mountainside just round the corner. These, together with a Japanese lantern that Paul had given us, and a little dragon that came with us from Essex, formed the start of the bed. We subsequently bought the gravel to cover it, and found a very nice little pine tree in the Paichi Garden Centre in Moraira for €12! An absolute bargain! We have since planted some beautiful Arum lilies (Zantedeschia) against the casita wall—Paul bought them for my birthday present—and soon we will finish the whole thing off with a bamboo screen behind it to set it off from next door's oleanders. And then I will just need to paint an ideogram on the casita wall...
April 05: We found a large black bamboo in the Orba Garden Centre, and when I say large, I mean about twelve feet tall! It has several lovely thick black canes and is now standing proudly in the corner of the bed behind the casita...which, by the way, is still waiting for its ideogram...
