Keeping a Larnaca garden through the driest year in a century.
The driest coast in Cyprus, in the year the reservoirs ran low. Maintained on a fixed schedule by the same crew, with the water decisions made before the summer, not during it.
Request a garden check →In Larnaca, a garden is kept alive by decisions, not by rain
Larnaca gets around 330mm of rain a year, less than the western coast, with hot afternoons and no reliable sea breeze to soften them. That was already the hardest brief on the south coast before 2026 put irrigation cuts on top of it. A garden here does not fail dramatically. It thins, the edges brown, and one August it is simply gone. Keeping that from happening is ordinary, repetitive work done on time, which is exactly what a maintenance contract is for.
The same crew, the same day, every time
Water as the first decision, not the last
Larnaca is the driest coast we work on, and 2026 is not the year to find that out in July. Every visit starts with what the garden is drinking: emitters checked, run times set to the season, and mulch kept deep enough that the water stays in the soil instead of on the air.
Cutting, pruning and feeding on a rhythm
Lawns cut at a height that shades their own roots, hedges and shrubs kept in shape rather than rescued twice a year, seasonal feeding, and beds edged so the garden reads as cared for even in the hard months.
The palms watched, not assumed
Mature Phoenix palms are inspected on a routine, not when something looks wrong. By the time a weevil-struck palm shows symptoms from the ground it is usually past saving, so the inspection has to happen before there is anything to see.
A written record after every visit
Photographs and a short note of what was done go out after each visit. If you are not on the island, that is the difference between hoping the garden is fine and knowing it.
The year the island stopped assuming water
Larnaca sits at the dry end of an island that is short of water everywhere. These are the figures behind every irrigation decision we make on a Larnaca garden, and they are the reason we would rather set a garden up properly in spring than rescue it in August.
In February 2026 Cyprus's reservoirs held just 13.7% of capacity — the lowest dam inflows since records began in 1901 — and Paphos district enforced a 30% cut in irrigation water. On the south coast, water-wise planting is no longer optional.
About 70% of all water used in Cyprus goes to irrigation and roughly 20% to households. In a country this water-stressed, an efficient irrigation system and drought-tolerant planting are the difference between a garden that survives the summer and one that doesn't.
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More than a decade of high-end landscaping across Cyprus — private villas, boutique hotels, resort grounds and residential developments — delivered by a family team that treats every project like its own home.
Larnaca Questions, Answered
They change how a garden is watered, not whether it survives. Cyprus reservoirs fell to 13.7% of capacity in February 2026 and irrigation cuts have followed district by district, so the gardens that come through this well are the ones already watering deeply and less often, mulched properly, and running irrigation that is not quietly leaking. That is the work we do on every visit in Larnaca, and it is why we would rather set a garden up now than triage it in August.
Yes, noticeably. Larnaca averages around 330mm of rain a year against roughly 430mm on the western coast, with less humidity and hot afternoons that lack the sea breeze Limassol gets. In practice it means drought-tolerant planting matters more here, irrigation faults show up faster, and a garden that is left for three weeks in summer looks worse in Larnaca than the same garden would in Paphos.
We do, and it does on some plots. Properties within roughly a kilometre of the lake sometimes carry slightly saline groundwater, which shows as leaf-edge burn and poor growth that is easy to mistake for underwatering. We test rather than guess, and where salinity is real we adjust the planting and the irrigation instead of pouring more water at it.
That is a large part of what we do here. Larnaca has more part-year homes than anywhere else we work, and they need continuity more than they need heroics. The same crew visits on a fixed schedule, the irrigation is checked while nobody is there to notice a failure, and you get photographs after each visit so the garden is not a question mark until you land.
Yes. Your property is assigned to a team, so they know the garden, the irrigation layout and how you like it kept. We use our own crews rather than subcontractors, which is what makes that possible after more than a decade on the island.
The city and the coast around it: the Phinikoudes and Marina districts, the western residential expansion, Oroklini, Pyla, Livadia and Aradippou, and the larger plots out toward Kiti and the salt lake. Tell us where the property is and we will tell you what its soil and water conditions mean before we quote.
The water side of this work has its own page: garden irrigation in Larnaca, including what the salt lake does to groundwater. If you are weighing up the cost, see what garden maintenance in Larnaca costs. For the wider picture of the area we cover, read gardening in Larnaca, and if you are rethinking the planting itself, xeriscaping compared with a traditional lawn garden is the honest version of that decision. Evenings in the garden are a solar lighting question, and we handle that too.