An abundance of flowers greets the summer

When we came to live in Cyprus 26 years ago now, water was rationed to two days a week on our road. However, the house we later bought had a well in the garden, so we were pleased about that, and I was able to start a garden after all with flowers and not just cacti and succulents, useful though they were.

We quickly learned that two days’ worth of water soon ran out and that the well dried up quite quickly too during the very hot summers, so we had to find some other source, however small, to...