Designing for Year-Round Interest in a Mediterranean Climate Garden
Jan. 2023
Companion Plant List for our Tuesday, January 17, 2023 webinar with Imogen Checketts and Kate Dumbleton, hosted by Noel Kingsbury and Sarah Beck.
Le Jardin Champetre
Caunes-Minervois, S.W. France
Imogen Checketts
BSc. (Hons.) Landscape & Heritage
Head gardener at Pensthorpe Wildlife & Gardens
Lino-cut print artist
Kate Dumbleton
Ecological planting (Australia 2001)
Permaculture design & Btec in horticulture
Le jardin Champetre: https://lejardinchampetre.com/
Planting Design, planting & maintenance, nursery
Year out researching Mediterranean gardening
(Nurseries, Mediterranean Garden Society & Hanbury Botanical Gardens, Italy)
Gardening full-time in S.W. France since 2013
1. Planting combination: Banks
Permanent, static: Stabilise the bank; gentle entrance
2. Planting combination
Open pathway, a break between bolder planting; dynamic, partly experimental
3. Planting combination: Heteromeles
4. Planting combination: Berkheya Border
New border, full sun, Extending main border
5. Planting combination: Melia Azedarach
Wilder style; Planting for hotter summers; Encouraging visitors to the meadow
6. Planting combination: wine estate gravel garden
No grasses, Pretty flowers, full sun & wind
