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<\/figure>\nMost of the houses we work on are lived in for part of the year. Between visits the garden is left to itself, through five months without rain and afternoons above thirty-five degrees. A scheme that depends on constant attention is, for a house of this kind, simply the wrong scheme.<\/p>\n
So we design otherwise. Every villa garden we build is composed to hold its condition through a Mallorcan summer unattended \u2014 through the plants chosen, through the engineering beneath them, and through a layout that works with the site instead of against it.<\/p>\n
What a villa garden has to resolve<\/h2>\n
It must keep its composure in your absence.<\/strong> Drought-tolerant planting and remotely managed irrigation are not economies. They are the condition on which everything else rests. You can see the system, and adjust it, from wherever you are.<\/p>\n It should give the day its shape.<\/strong> The arrival. The pool terrace in the morning. Shade to eat under. Somewhere quiet for the late afternoon. A garden that offers one undifferentiated space offers less than it appears to.<\/p>\n It must answer the architecture.<\/strong> A contemporary house in exposed concrete asks a different question than a restored stone finca. We design the garden out of the building, never as decoration placed in front of it.<\/p>\n It should look considered from the approach.<\/strong> The impression a house makes begins at the gate. It is the part of a property most often left to chance, and the part guests remember.<\/p>\n Everything else about a house begins to age the moment it is finished. A garden does the opposite. The trees thicken, the stone weathers, the planting closes and settles until it looks as though it was always there.<\/p>\n That is why we design for permanence rather than for effect. A villa with a garden that has matured properly is a different property from the same house with a bare terrace \u2014 and it will always be read that way, by guests and by the market alike.<\/p>\n A garden is not only looked at; it is walked through. We lay our paths in natural stone<\/strong> \u2014 large, irregularly broken slabs bedded into gravel, with the joints left wide enough for the planting to lean in from both sides.<\/p>\n The stone carries the same warm tone as the walls of the house. It stays bearable underfoot long after concrete would be too hot, and it improves with the years rather than deteriorating. Above all, a path like this does not look laid. It looks found \u2014 which is exactly what matters in a garden that should never read as an installation.<\/p>\n And there is a point that carries more weight in Mallorca than it would elsewhere: a path of this kind needs no concrete base.<\/strong> The slabs sit in a compacted bed of gravel. Nothing is sealed, so nothing counts as built square metres \u2014 and as a rule no building licence is required. What any particular town hall asks for in a given case we establish beforehand; but in practice that base is precisely what separates a garden path from a building project.<\/p>\n The ground also stays permeable. Rainwater soaks in where it falls instead of running off at the edge \u2014 in a summer where every litre counts, that is not a side issue either.<\/p>\n Pool terraces and surrounds in local stone. Mediterranean planting chosen for the exact exposure of the site, including the salt tolerance a coastal position demands. Irrigation designed alongside the planting rather than after it. Lighting that lets the garden be used in the evening without flooding it. Shade and privacy resolved through planting and structure before walls are considered. And, for houses used seasonally, the continuing care that keeps the design intact.<\/p>\n A villa garden is, above all, seen. From the terrace at breakfast, from the water in the afternoon, from the table when the light drops. It is composed the way a room is composed \u2014 with a foreground, a middle distance and something held at the far edge for the eye to rest on.<\/p>\n That is why proportion matters here more than variety. A villa garden that tries to contain everything reads as busy from the one place you will look at it from most. We design the view first and the planting second.<\/p>\n Where a walkable green area is genuinely wanted, we keep one \u2014 small, and exactly where it is used. The question is not whether lawn is allowed, but which lawn. We specify Grama<\/strong> (Cynodon dactylon<\/em>, known in English as bermuda grass), a Mediterranean turf that behaves differently under drought: if the water stops for a long period it goes dormant rather than dying. The surface turns brown and looks lost. It is not. With the first watering, or the first rain, it greens again.<\/p>\n And we design for the evenings. Where the table stands and how one arrives at it. Which tree gives the shade and which wall takes the wind. What lights when the sun has gone, and what is allowed to stay dark.<\/p>\n The best of it is that the intention never shows. Your guests will not remark that the garden is well designed. They will simply not want to leave.<\/p>\n See our wider approach to garden and landscape design in Mallorca<\/a>, or our page on finca gardens<\/a> for rural property.<\/p>\n The villa garden in Santany\u00ed<\/a> combines modern lines with traditional Mallorcan elements. El Jard\u00edn Secreto<\/a> wraps a property entirely, creating shelter on every side.<\/p>\n More of our work is in projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n Paths, steps and walls are the frame the planting is set against. What we build them from \u2014 and why a garden path as a rule needs no building licence \u2014 is set out under Mallorcan natural stone in the garden<\/a>.<\/p>\n Where the water in Mallorca actually stands \u2014 reserves, alert levels and what the town halls already prohibit \u2014 is set out with figures and a date under water and gardens in Mallorca<\/a>.<\/p>\n How a garden is built to come through a Mallorcan summer on very little water \u2014 the planting, the lawn question and the ground cover \u2014 is set out under drought-tolerant gardens<\/a>.<\/p>\n We work across the island.<\/strong> On particular areas: Santany\u00ed<\/a> and Andratx and Port d’Andratx<\/a>.<\/p>\n We work across the island.<\/strong> On particular areas: Santany\u00ed<\/a>, Andratx and Port d’Andratx<\/a>, Alar\u00f3<\/a> and Art\u00e0<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"Pool](\"https:\/\/www.designmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Wendy_Garten_fuenf-1-1024x684.jpg\")
<\/figure>\nA garden as part of the property, not an expense against it<\/h2>\n
Paths in natural stone<\/h2>\n
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<\/figure>\nWhat we do<\/h2>\n
A garden made for the evenings<\/h2>\n
More about our work<\/h2>\n
Villa projects<\/h2>\n