Water is less of an issue in the Tramuntana
mountains, where, in some areas, property owners have a note in their title deeds that they are allowed to tap into the mountain springs for a certain number of hours. Sóller, which sits in a beautiful citrus-grow- ing valley near the coast, is a good place to look. Jan Westwood from buying agency The Property Finders, knows of a detached five-bedroom house for sale there that has water rights and a huge storage tank to irrigate the 3,600sq m garden, orange and lemon grove, for £1.6 million (discounted from £2.12 million). She suggests that holiday-home owners consider a container garden with automatic irrigation on their patio or terrace. `Plan carefully, using col- ourful succulents and plants that don' t shed
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leaves. And before planting in terracotta urns, paint the inside with acrylics to pre- vent rapid water evaporation.' The one drawback of Mallorcan gardens
is that they don' t usually come cheap. `For a sizeable house with a truly special, well- maintained and landscaped garden, you should expect to pay more than £4 million,' says Peter Hilton, director of Chesterton Humberts Mallorca. He' s marketing a man- icured country estate in Santa Eugènia, where a six-bedroom house stands among perfect rows of palms and pines (and a heli- pad) for £3.48 million. For some holiday-home owners, however,
the greatest challenge is how to maintain a garden they can only work on intermit- tently. A solution is to buy on a development
FOR SALE €3.48m
Santa Eugenia This estate has perfect gardens and a helipad.
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with shared expanses of greenery. Mrs Westwood recommends the Anchorage Club, five minutes from Puerto Portals, which has subtropical gardens. A seaview, one-bed- room apartment there costs from £374,000 through First Mallorca. Or there is Los Piños in Santa Ponsa, where you can buy two-bedroom terrace houses from £420,000 on an landscaped complex near the Philippe Starck-designed Port Adriano marina. Alternatively, many management compa-
nies on Mallorca deal with garden main- tenance, as do freelance gardeners, who
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