Little Green Tip of the Day

Gardening and property maintenance tips for your Mediterranean garden and house.

Just a quick post to share with you because I see people all too often struggling with creating nice hedges in their Mediterranean garden. The owner of this garden told me that his hedge is 3 years old and for some mysterious reason it’s “not growing“. Here it is, Metrosideros […]

Creating hedges in the Mediterranean garden

This entry was posted in Little Green Tip of the Day on February 26, 2016 by annapollo

I have a love-hate relationship with Lantanas. This time of the year my hands are full of their spikes my forearms have rashes generally I am not very happy with grooming them. But comes summer and I can’t stop to admire the clusters of colorful flowers and the bees happily […]

Lantanas: friends or enemies?

This entry was posted in Little Green Tip of the Day on February 4, 2016 by annapollo

Following the destruction of the Red Palm Weevil – the bug responsible for destroying palm trees throughout the Mediterranean basin – there is an increasing number of unsightly palm stumps in gardens and towns. While one option is to cut these dead trunks, dig them out and get rid of them […]

New life to your destroyed palm tree

This entry was posted in Little Green Tip of the Day and tagged bougainvillea creative solutions destroyed palm gardening palm palm stumps palm tree palm weevil Paros spring jobs in the garden tips on January 1, 2015 by annapollo

Green. Serene and peaceful. Having vivid green carpet around us is said to be the most the most relaxing sight. In a Mediterranean country with dry winters and scorching hot summers is it something that we can achieve or only the extra rich can afford or is it? While there […]

Your options of green

This entry was posted in Little Green Tip of the Day and tagged grass green ground cover lawn on March 30, 2014 by annapollo

When planting a new flowerbed consider that plants grow so give them lots of room to develop to their full potential. If you must have a dense, full landscape right away, plant with the intent to relocate or remove some plants as they mature. You can also plant quick-growing, short-lived “filler” […]

Plan for grows

This entry was posted in Little Green Tip of the Day on February 28, 2014 by annapollo

Gaura (Greek name: Γαούρα, botanical name: Gaura lindheimeri) is a beautiful perennial that flowers all year round in the Mediterranean garden. It makes a little round bush, and the butterfly-like flowers come in white or many shades of pink. Its a perennial, that means that it lives for many years, […]

Time to tidy up the Gaura in your garden

This entry was posted in Little Green Tip of the Day and tagged flowers garden tips gardening gaura gaura lindheimi perennials on February 19, 2014 by annapollo

Have you got one of these beauties in your garden? If so, you must share my enthusiasm for it, the abundant colorful flowers cannot be missing from any Mediterranean garden. It is a delight to look at in the summertime. Trouble is, that it needs regular maintenance especially really drastic […]

Taming the monster, or how to cut back your Bougainvillea

This entry was posted in Little Green Tip of the Day and tagged bougainvillea cutting gardening spring jobs in the garden tips on February 18, 2014 by annapollo