Landscaping in Felanitx and Portocolom
Felanitx is inland wine and stone country, Portocolom is a sheltered natural harbour a few kilometres away, and the two garden quite differently. Tell us which you are in and we pass the request on.
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Red clay inland, sheltered water on the coast
Around Felanitx the ground is the red terra rossa that suits vines and almonds. It holds more water than the thin limestone soils elsewhere, which is useful in summer and a liability in a wet winter, because it compacts and drains slowly once it has been driven over.
The town sits below Sant Salvador and the old marés quarries, and local sandstone shows up in the walls, the steps and the houses. Matching it is worth doing when anything new is built.
Portocolom is unusually sheltered for this coast. The harbour takes the edge off the wind, so gardens there tolerate a wider plant list than an open bay would allow, though salt is still present on the outer side.
What gardens here usually need
- Drainage and decompaction on heavy red clay
- Marés stone matched on walls and steps
- Vineyard and almond management on rural parcels
- Planting that copes with wet winter ground inland
- Moderate salt tolerance around the harbour
- Irrigation from wells on rural land
- Holiday letting maintenance at Portocolom
- Shade for open inland terraces
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Why does my inland garden stay wet for days?
Terra rossa holds water and compacts easily, especially after construction traffic. Opening the ground up usually does more than adding drains.
Is Portocolom exposed to salt?
Less than an open coast, thanks to the shape of the harbour, though the outer plots still get it.
Can local stone be sourced for repairs?
Marés is quarried in the area, and matching it is worth asking about when anything is rebuilt.
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