You can see the days getting slightly longer now, just another seven weeks until the clocks roll forward and we really feel like Spring is upon us. I’ve been busy tidying the new sunken patio area and have splashed out and had 3 mains wall lights fitted to the railway sleepers. The area now looks very inviting as dusk falls, with the shadows created through the rusty metal sculptures but it is still far too cold to sit out and appreciate it as yet. Roll on Summer.
I’ve got a selection of large containers with shade loving plants like camellias and fatsias dominating along the back wall of the house but a variety of palms in containers in front of the railway sleepers. One in particular that caught my eye a few years ago was Chamaerops humilis var. cerifera. It is a Blue Mediterranean Fan Palm and I think, an extremely breath taking, silver-blue form of the classic palm. It is aesthetically a perfect companion for other hardy arid plants, such as yucca or alongside olives and other Mediterranean classics in a sunny border, or as I have them, in large containers. The…
