Villa garden in Bétera
A tired lawn around a 1980s villa, replaced with olive groves, a stone path and planting that needs water twice a month.
- Town
- Bétera
- Size
- 1,100 m²
- Finished
- On site
- Four months
The garden
The lawn had been watered every evening for thirty years and still turned yellow by July. The owners wanted a garden that looked settled the first summer and asked less of them and of the well.
We kept the four old olives, added eleven more in loose groves and laid a path of local stone from the house to the pool. The beds are mulched with gravel, planted with lavender, cistus and grasses, and fed by a drip system on a soil sensor.
At the far end, where the lawn was worst, we sowed a meadow that is cut once a year in July.
Before and after
Taken from the same corner of the garden, the week we started and the summer after.
We asked for a garden that would still look good when we are eighty. Ingrid drew one that will look better.
The first visit is free
An hour in your garden with Ingrid Halvorsen, our head of design. You keep the ideas and a rough price range.