Casa Lucia

Sgombou

When we moved here in 1977 the land was a bare expanse cropped by flocks of sheep for centuries.  As the sheep disappeared, as if by magic wild pear trees, mulberries, figs started to grow in the field, which in April should be a mass of asphodel and lupin.  We have left it wild, apart from the labyrinth.  The rest of the land we laid out with lawns, swimming pool, nurturing the few existing olive and quince trees, planting wisteria, spyreia, bignonia and the eponymous hedge which has become a trademark of the garden. We concentrate on drought resistant plants and one day will have to let the lawns go brown in summer, although we are blessed with a good water supply.