St George’s House

Agios Georgios near Kassiopi

The landscape at Agios Georgios and around St. George’s House has generally been untouched for centuries, albeit from a herd of goats who still have their wicked way in pruning the wilder part of the landscape but also the planted garden surrounding the main house.

The forty seven stremmata property is not fenced so we have to wait and see what the happy herd has eaten week by week. We planted the garden with the goats and the hot, dry summers at the forefront of our mind. 

We wanted to keep the wildness of the place very much at the core of the landscape but also have a flow through the whole estate. As there is no mains water up at Agios Georgios, and we rely solely on water delivery, we wanted to have a dry garden that could withstand a little amount of water so we planted the majority of the plants with water, wilderness and the goats in mind. 

Surrounding the main house, the garden is more formal which leads off on a semi wild walk around the old Venetian aloni. The garden then leads you into the wilder part of the landscape with an abundance of phlomis cretic and phlomis lanata. The beautiful flowers of the iris germanic are dotted around the estate in clusters with many of the other more common but no less beautiful flowers of the Greek natural landscape that grow here. There are some wonderful old oak trees scattered around the estate that create their own microclimates around them with wild plants such as crocus and wild asparagus popping up under them. 

One can walk the whole estate either on a cut path or you are free to ramble around as you wish. 

Water and fresh lemonade will be provided. 

Water and fresh lemonade will be provided. 

As you approach Kassiopi from the south, take the left up the hill before the right of Kassiopi. Take the first left in the folk in the road followed by the first right after the boat yard. The house is all the way up the hill and signposted.

There is parking at the house.