Mediterranean Garden Tour | Planting Inspiration from Delos at Sissinghurst Castle Garden

Mediterranean planting is increasingly popular, perfect for fast-draining beds and borders, or terracotta planters. Enjoy the cool tones and vibrant jewels of a wilder landscape, the intoxicating scent of the garrigue, and a summery sense of freedom and adventure. Delos, the beautiful mediterranean garden at Sissinghurst Castle, provides incredibly atmospheric botanical inspiration in this video, with footage from May to late July. Delos pays homage to the original Greek landscape created by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, subsequently lost to time and the challenges of clay and climate.
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The plant labels shared in this video are, to the best of our knowledge, correct but not from an official list. Where suitable we suggest species more readily available in the UK.
For further inspiration and a gorgeous Mediterranean moodboard the website jardin-sec.com labels beautiful plants on their ‘Photos’ page. Olivier Filippi, nursery owner, helped advise on the plant selection for Delos, which was created by designer Dan Pearson, head gardener Troy Scott Smith, and the National Trust team.

[@zahradajeraj9336]

It is exciting to enter a place where wild flowers have lived undisturbed for hundreds of years. For example, in the arid Mediterranean landscape under the merciless sun. That's what it looks like. The illusion is perfect, the creators are masters of magic. Wizards, masters of their craft. Everyone who designed, approved, paid for, executed this work and who will continue to maintain it and suffer the garden in that place deserves great respect.

[@ApplePeaFernSea]

We’ve certainly fallen under the spell of Delos. If of interest, there is an atmospheric account of the plant research trip to Delos and Crete here merlin-trust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/674-675-Bridget-Wheeler-and-Joshua-Sparkes.pdf

[@zahradajeraj9336]

@@ApplePeaFernSea Thank you very much, I am very pleased. It will be useful for my studies. I am an amateur, I fell under the spell of wild flowers of the Mediterranean. I have been studying Mr. O. Filippi and other sources since 2019 and since 2018 I have been working on a stylized front garden in zone 6b, Czech Republic. Bery
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I stand on the threshold of future experiences. What you have done will be an inspiration to thousands like me.

[@ApplePeaFernSea]

Thank you so much for your encouraging words, and for sharing your own gorgeous and evocative Mediterrean-style tapestry of flowers and foliage.

Wonderfu l filming. Thank you so much!

[@ApplePeaFernSea]

You are very welcome and thank you for your kind comment : )

[@t_mandry]

These look so much better than just grass plus I bet they perform better during droughts

[@ApplePeaFernSea]

Absolutely Tommy, and so many of these plants are great for pollinators too! Many thanks for your comment.

[@oscar6832]

Lawns are not that bad. A lawn is not a garden, Yes, but You can walk on a lawn, so it's more practical for home owners. But Yes, this looks like a master show garden.

[@ApplePeaFernSea]

@@oscar6832 In fairness to lawns, there are practical reasons for them (a more suitable surface for children’s ball games than our flower beds) and even the most manicured turf can sustain birds and wildlife (with worms, leatherjackets, ants and so on). But when I look at Delos, the grass is always greener …