A garden kept, season after season, above Sant Miquel.
Site & brief
Sant Miquel, in the north of the island. A private garden under ongoing care — lawn, mature palms, an orange orchard, and the native trees that were already growing on site before the property was ever landscaped.
Approach
The work here is ongoing rather than a single build. We check and prune palms twice a year against red palm weevil, with fumigation and endotherapy where the checks call for it. We clear scrub and dead growth back from the older trees so the canopy can be read again, rather than guessed at.
Where a carob or a fig was already established, it stayed — moved only when the works needed the ground, never removed.
The same clearing extends around the whole property for fire prevention, cut back on a schedule.
One of the olives here was found during the clearance, under scrub nobody had cut in twenty years. Read the full story →
Planting palette
- Olive (Olea europaea) — mature trees on site, understory cleared back to keep them healthy.
- Carob and fig (Ceratonia siliqua / Ficus carica) — native trees already established, relocated only where necessary.
- Orange (Citrus × sinensis) — the orchard, now running on a new drip system.
- Lawn — kept healthy through scarification and seasonal fertilisation.
What it looks like now
The lawn holds its colour through summer. We inspect the palms on schedule. What was already growing here — the carob, the fig, the old olive — is still here, just better looked after.
We feed the orange trees, work between them with the tractor, and prune them properly in winter. They carry more fruit than they did, and they carry it better.