Surrey Homes | SH59 | September 2019 | Education supplement inside

Garden
and Claire Abery, who gardened at
Sissinghurst for nearly 20 years. Located
in the village of Mekounida, on the slopes
of Mount Ochi, it is a retreat for those
who want to immerse themselves in the
Mediterranean-style of gardening while
gaining as much practical and theoretical
know-how as they fancy, between siestas.
Lillian’s family has owned the site for
more than 30 years, and in that time has
created a classic terraced garden below
Villa Kasteli. On the other side of a
small olive grove, the family has built a
new home, Villa Livano, with a state-ofthe-art
‘climate-change garden’ designed
by Jenny Gay and Piers Goldson.
For those who are new to the concept,
climate-change gardening is all about
learning how to garden in hotter, drier and
more extreme conditions, as well as reducing
your garden’s impact on the environment.
It’s also a style of garden and gardening
that works very well in the smaller,
courtyard-style gardens that so many of
us have these days; think Mediterraneanstyle
but with a ‘green’ approach.
One evening, Claire suggests a walk.
We head along a narrow path, under
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