Martina's Garden     Stile

The most exotic items in the garden were, 
in fact, two pieces of driftwood - even if 
they don't look particularly unusual in these 
pictures. Martina has a passion for such 
objects and collected these one summer
from a mountain gorge near Berchtesgarden
in Bavaria.

The planting is kept simple and comprises
grasses, ferns, irises, bamboos and hostas,
set off against a mulch of multi-sized gravel.

                                                                             The pond was planted with lobelia cardinalis, irises and 
                                                                             houttuynia. Houttuynia, has the remarkable characteristic 
                                                                             that it prevents the growth of algae, even in shallow
                                                                              water in full sunlight. 

Last modified: 06/11/2009