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Gardens in the Costa Blanca Region: the Jardines de Montforte and the Valencia Botanic Gardenby Carol Hawes Photographs to illustrate the article published in The Mediterranean Garden No 80, April 2015 Carol describes two quite different gardens in Valencia. About the Palacete de Monforte she writes:
“The gardens of the Palacete y Jardines de Monforte were created in the mid-nineteenth century. The 12,000 m2 plot was an old orchard, outside the city, and in one corner a small summer residence was built, from which the carefully created vistas and garden features could be enjoyed. nearby there is a rosaleda, with colourful roses in beds edged with clipped evergreen hedges, leading to a long, shady, bougainvillea-covered pergola against an original outside wall of the garden.”
“… among rocks and old intertwining tree trunks, is a cool fern-filled grotto.”
“A large marble-edged pool is encircled and shaded by weeping cypresses and grey-green casuarinas, which give it a very cool and sombre aspect.”
About the Valencia Botanic Garden Carol writes:
“An iron-lattice shade house (umbraculo), rebuilt in 1990, features attractive displays of shade-loving plants. Ferns, orchids, bromeliads and carnivorous plants each have their own small glasshouses.”
“…in the large area dedicated to drought-tolerant plants there are interesting collections of agaves, aloes, cacti, euphorbias and other succulents together with some very unusual flowering trees.”
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