Cyprus Mediterranean Garden Designs

It is vital to have knowledge of the Mediterranean plants here in Cyprus. The reason for this is that plants grow 10 times quicker in Cyprus than they do in the UK. Therefore gardens cannot be put into the same category as UK planting and careful selection of plants is vital. For instance, a lot of shrubs when bought from local garden centres and nurseries are bought in 5 Litre pots. However, when they are placed in the garden connected to an automatic irrigation system a lot of these plants will grow up to 3 metres in 6 months. Therefore if a customer does not have knowledge of exact height and spread of Mediterranean plants, in 6 months, if not careful, your garden can become a jungle. Special care and attention is taken by Loukia's Landscapes to select plants to suit the garden that is wanted by the customer. For instance, for a low maintenance garden Loukia's Landscapes have found a good selection of plants that will flower throughout the winter months and continuously throughout the summer months, and once flowering is complete, a good prune once a year will allow them to continue flowering for the next season. There are many garden desigsn available for planting here in Cyprus. For instance, if you miss your UK garden, a cottage garden design can be perfect, using plants such as lavenders, rosemary, agapanthus, bright colourful flowering shrubs, olive trees etc. Another favourite design is the palm garden. There are some lovely palms, succulents and cactus plants available here in Cyprus, and, together with lovely ornamental rocks and pebble displays can be the perfect garden to give you that sunshine mediterranean garden. Other designs such as a Cypriot garden designs using Bougainvilleas, hibiscus, pots with bright colourful Perlargoniums, Osteospermums and Gazanias etc are also very popular in Cyprus, allowing you to create a bright and bold garden effect. The other popular garden design for Loukia's Landscapes, especially for the UK ex pats who are only visiting their properties a few times a year, therefore needing low maintenance gardens, is the design using low maintenance, colourful, all year round flowering shrubs, tall pencil-thin Cypriot or Italian conifers (Cupressus sempervirens), ornamental rocks, pots, pithari's and to remove weeding completely, a membrane covered by different coloured gravel, depending on the customers taste. (see photo gallery). There are also many other designs available, using water features, low maintenance conifer gardens and fruit tree gardens. All gardens are individually designed especially to the customers specifications.