The Canary Islands Spa Garden
The Canary Islands Spa Garden
Designed by James Wong and David Cubero
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James and David take us on a tour of the Canary Islands Spa Garden.
Design inspiration
For David Cubero, born in the Canarias, creating The Canary Islands Spa Garden has been a true labour of love. So often Canary Island gardeners tend to look abroad for their horticultural inspiration, they struggle against the climate to create idealised pastoral landscapes.
David's mission is to encourage Canarian designers to discover their own unique identity and celebrate their rich local flora and other-worldly landscape.
"Our garden is inspired by the rugged, volcanic landscapes and bizarre, unique flora of the Canary Island Archipelago.
The garden aims to introduce visitors to a forgotten face of the islands, transporting them through steaming thermal spring water, black laval rock and towering palm trees, to experience a glimpse of the unique native flora of this remote island chain."
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I think perfection is impossible to achieve in anything. This garden certainly deserves 9/10.
I live in Tenerife and I would absolutely love to have my garden like this one...get the diggers in!
Reminds me of memories of holidaying in the Canaries - well laid out and presented - good work!
This garden is absolutely stunning from exactly this angle that the photograph is taken. Straight from the front though, I found the middle section to large and wide, becoming austere and a bit hostile, and totally separating the green areas from each other.
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While I generally like the garden (and I am a sucker for palms and other subtropical vegetation) I am not quite sure what the large Sentry Palms (Kentia/ Howeia) did in the garden?!? They stem from the Howeia islands South-West of Australia and are epidemic there (as far as I know).
Any clarification is appreciated.