Pauses are often more important than the music.
Maria Callas
The Maria garden
The Maria Garden is a ready-made planting guide for a sunny, sheltered border beside a terrace or seating area. The 9 × 3 m design contains 50 plants, with two optional scented climbers, combining white flowers, silver foliage and soft blue tones to create a fragrant garden that comes into its own as evening falls.
Pale flowers. Evening fragrance. Space to linger.
A romantic evening border for a sunny, sheltered Puglian garden. White flowers and silver foliage catch the fading light, with soft blue accents and scented planting beside your terrace, a beautiful setting for unhurried evenings outdoors.
The Maria Garden
€250
A glimpse inside your kit
What you receive
An illustrated seventeen-page PDF with a botanical cover, an evening garden view, planting close-ups and a watercolour garden sketch.
A numbered overview and a detailed A3 planting plan for a 9 × 3 metre scented border beside your terrace or seating area.
A shopping list for 50 border plants across eight plant types, plus two optional climbers, with real plant photographs, names, quantities and recommended buying sizes.
Simple planting steps, spacing guidance and material suggestions, alongside an A3 planting plan and irrigation layout and clear instructions for a Rain Bird tap timer, one continuous tube and drippers matched to each plant’s watering needs.
A seasonal care calendar, nursery buying notes and the story behind Maria’s Garden After Dark, inspired by the voice, elegance and emotion of Maria Callas.
Is this garden right for your space?
You will need an open, broadly level planting area 9 metres long and 3 metres deep beside your existing terrace or seating area, with at least six hours of sun, freely draining soil and access to fresh irrigation water. Choose a warm, sheltered setting protected from severe frost, cold winds and strong salt spray.
Allow the full depth of the border for the plants to mature, with access for seasonal care and light shaping of the shrubs. The two optional scented climbers need suitable existing supports and separate planting pockets outside the measured border.
The guide includes an irrigation layout and simple instructions for connecting a Rain Bird timer to an outside tap already prepared for irrigation, with one continuous tube and individual drippers positioned at each plant’s rootball.
What the price covers
€250 buys the digital guide for use at one property. You can share it with the gardener working on that property.
Print your guide as a handy garden booklet, with the planting and irrigation plans printed at A3 for easy reference as you work. Clear, step-by-step instructions guide you through buying, positioning, planting and caring for your plants, giving you the confidence to bring the design to life, yourself or with your gardener, and create a beautiful space to enjoy for years to come.
The design is supplied as shown. Plants, materials, delivery, ground preparation and installation are purchased separately. Site visits, personal advice and changes to the planting or layout are separate services. Construction, lighting and drainage drawings are not included.