A Sparkling Mediterranean Garden with Aloe, Aeonium and Palms

Quite colorful, this desert garden is low maintenance and requires little water to thrive. The plants are drought tolerant and are laid out in a tapestry of striking colors, shapes and textures. Framed by the lush blue-green to almost whitish silver foliage of Butia capitata (Pindo Palm), we can admire with delight the brilliant, scarlet to orange flower spikes of Aloe x principis. They contrast nicely with the dark burgundy rosettes of Aeonium ‘Zwartkop’. Competing for attention, Aloe ‘Hercules’, a fast-growing, evergreen tree-like aloe reveals its smooth trunk crowned with explosions of fleshy, broad, blue-green leaves.

Looking good all year-round, most of these plants change color over the seasons for a renewed appeal.