RETURN OF THE NATIVE

Central Spain is one of Europe’s most unforgiving climates for gardeners, with cold winters, long, hot summers and low annual rainfall. So it should be no surprise that garden making here has been a relatively conservative business, overwhelmingly dominated by the use of robust evergreens in classically geometric patterns. But things are changing, with a number of designers breaking the mould, using a more naturalistic aesthetic and a much wider range of plants, and trying to be more careful with the use