The top photo would have been taken in 2013. By this time, I had marked out all the garden patches and made the stone walls. We didn't have a lot of plants then. The part I am showing today is the little rectangle behind the trunk of the jacaranda which is no longer in the garden. You can see the big old pear tree and the clothes line behind and the group of agapanthus in the centre.
I don't love agapanthus and in 2015 I moved the clump elsewhere when I was given these bottles- brushes. Because the area is so far from water, (and I never have the time or the energy to lug a watering can) it has to survive on whatever it can beg from the sky.
Only the hardiest plants survive in this spot because there is no shade. In summer the heat beats down. The silver plants are only tiny cuttings in this photo. Last year the limoniums went in, and the purple colour made the area perfect.
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The top left was taken last year and the next two today after the blooming of the bottle-brush,. I don't think this area has ever looked so lovely. The colours, shapes, and scents, are delightful. And all done without water.This morning I decided this area was herb-ish because of the rosemary, oregano, thyme, and lemon scented geranium happily growing there.
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