Great salvia video fire, thanks - the sound worked fine for me. The interviewer had another interesting one with an ex bake off contestant which was also very informative, Jane somebody..
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I have often admired gravel gardens but never dared invest in one as I think it would be used as a toilet area for all of the local animals that traffic through my garden.
I absolutely agree, @Joyce Goldenlily. Cats are a menace, obviously, they love a bit of gravel, but we get lots of foxes and badgers, not to mention pigeons and rooks. In the past our visitors have included cattle and goats. Just imagine trying to keep your gravel neat with that lot.
Designer John Little has a very different way of doing things. He uses substrates like pure builders' sand, crushed concrete, toilets, sinks and glass. His main interest is planning / seeding for greatest diversity of flora & fauna (particularly for pollinators), low cost and low maintenance in public growing spaces such as housing estate and schools. He promotes growing without any soil at all - getting substrates with as low nutrition as possible, in some cases, mimicking UK chalklands, particularly good for supporting rarer native plants.
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Good to see John Little and his rubble planting featured in the RHS The Garden magazine.