CHANGING TIMES

Renowned horticulturist and garden designer Myles Baldwin created a stylish design that embraced responsible water usage. Designed to be viewed from all sides, the garden channelled Moorish influences with its water rills, crushed granite and stone paving. His minimalist shade structure, open on all sides with a bamboo slatted roof, showed the beauty of dappled light in an outdoor space.

Myles used a palette of arid-climate plants in silvery tones: olive trees, grass trees and Nolina nelsonii to rosemary, succulents and textural Cussonia paniculata (main image, centre). For a touch of colour, there’s apricot dwarf oleander, bird of paradise ( Strelitzia parvifolia) and Kniphofia ‘Poco Orange’ (bottom left, with Opuntia). Other water-wise plants included aloe vera (bottom, middle), Peruvian apple cactus ( Cereus peruvianus) and Senecio crassissimus (bottom right). mylesbaldwin.com

Myles Baldwin ‘ T H E S E A R E P L A N T S F O R O U R C H A N G I N G T I M E S .’