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  • This would guarantee plant establishment by summer.
  • They would still need irrigating over summer.
  • Use mulch to conserve moisture.
  • No irrigation needed over the winter.

Plants which flower in summer attract wildlife

Use of

Native Maltese Plants

Plants are generally under stress in the dry season,

many go dorment and kill off the aerial parts

others are summer deciduous

Very often watering would make the plant flourish although some, like the Euphorbia dendroides (tree spurge) would die.

Antoine Gatt

Landscape Architect

...not even create rocky areas and plant cacti for a drought tolerant garden.

By working with the seasons, gardening becomes more relaxing and satisfying.

The gardening cycle starts with the first rains after summer.

A garden planted with native species need not be dull...

Advantages of going native

THANK YOU

Native plants can offer variety, colour and texture

When watering:

  • Give plenty of water at widely spaced intervals
  • Avoid sprinklers, there are a waste of resource
  • Water early in the morning or in the evening
  • Water within a trough and cover wet soil

  • Reduced watering

  • Less chance of plant failure through disease and pest attack

  • Less chance of invasiveness

  • Provides habitat for wildlife

  • Provides a source of food without long term damage

  • Preventing the introduction of invasive species

  • Ecosystem services

  • Conservation of local gene pool

Recreating landscapes typical of a continental climate in a Mediterranean environment results in high maintenance and increased water consumption.

No hard or fast rule on quantity

It depends on micro-climate, soil type, orientation and species

Cultivating native plants provides many advantages.

They are drought tolerant and adapted to the local climate.

Thank you

Garigue is the most biologically diverse habitat in the Maltese Islands.

Although windswept, the countryside is still teaming with vegetation which has evolved to survive the local semi-arid environment.

Land area vs species

  • Britain - 229848 kmsq - 1407 native plants
  • Malta - 316 kmsq - 800 native plants

The native vegetation has adapted to the physical environment.

Cistus creticus - Cistu roza - Hoary rockrose

Thymbra capitata - Saghtar - Wild thyme

Pinus helepensis - Znuber - Aleppo Pine

Lonicera implexa - Qarn il-Moghza - Evergreen honeysuckle

Sedum sediforme - Sedum - Mediterranean stonecrop

Vitex agnus-castus - Virgi - Chaste tree

Coronilla valentina - Koronilla - Shrubby Crown Vetch

Acanthus mollis - Hannewija - Bear's Breaches

Jacobaea maritima - Kromb il-Bahar Isfar - Silvery Ragworth

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