This long flight of steps leads up through a
Chasmanthe bicolor former olive grove in which Johnston scattered two bulbs, one for the spring and another for the autumn.
These are the Chasmanthe bicolor, which illuminates the meadow in March with its thousands of delicate reddish-orange flowers and its iris-like foliage, and, in the autumn, the celebrated Amaryllis belladonna, now naturalised throughout the Garden with its beautiful trumpet-shaped pink and white flowers.
