IN BRIEF
What Mediterranean-style garden.
Where Isle of Wight.
Size 972 square metres.
Soil Clay augmented with sandy loam.
Climate Maritime temperate.
Hardiness zone USDA 9.
Winding along a dusty gravel path through a landscape of gnarled hawthorn, olive trees and silver-leaved shrubs, you feel immersed in what appears to be a wooded hillside cascading down to a Mediterranean coastline. To complete the illusion, curved walls stand proud like relics from old chǎteaux, while the soft splash of water on stone cools the air as you make your way down to the sea.
Cocooned in foliage and flowers, this leafy paradise is a far cry from the windswept one-in-three slope that greeted garden designer Andy Sturgeon when he first visited the site
