We are broadening our range of colourful and interesting designs to appeal to more potential
buyers. Trigono-Lamda designs are featured on mugs, greetings cards, note cards, postcards, aprons,
keepsake boxes, t-shirts, caps, toto bags, fridge magnets and other gifts. Some designs are not
suitable for the widest range of products, due to colours or shapes and we've restricted those
designs to a smaller range of gifts.
Online purchase is simple and the delivery service ensures that your souvenirs don't get lost,
broken in your suitcase or take you over your luggage allowance!
May of our Our designs show the beauty of nature but we'll introduce more that include street
scenes and architecture as time goes on; and more humourous ones!
Some Trigono-Lamda designs and the stories behind them
Sadly, 200 of the 300 trees on the Lemon Grove were destroyed by bad weather in 2003-04. It
costs more to harvest and transport lemons than could possible be made by replanting again
so we'll look after the remaining citrus trees, undertake a little landscaping to make
it easier to access the grove and manage the land as a semi-wild park to preserve the wildlife there.
Lamda is a very mature olive grove, with some trees maybe 2-300 years old. Two of
its borders have oak and walnut trees, and some of the walnut trees, have become
diseased and fallen. Fungi thrive on rotting wood and are very beautiful, but on more commercial
groves the wood is cleared quickly and nature is not allowed to take it's course. At trigono-Lamda
we want to protect as many plant forms as we can. and not to forget the fungi!
The 2009 Anniversay was marked by the commissioning of a cake decorated with the Trigono-Lamda
logo and "hermodactylus tuberosis" (Snakes head iris) flower motif crafted in sugar icing.
We were so impressed by the design that we've adopted it as our logo for advertising Trigono-Lamda
and the trigonogroves website. A version without the website name has also been produced, but we've
kept our original design at low cost because displaying our name will help us to promote our website.
Morning Glory grows wild among the ruins of old buildings in Methoni
and neighbouring places, especially in Pylos. The plant used in the Trigono-Lamda design
here is a paler version grown from seed at Trigono UK. It is a blue and white reminder
of Sunnny Greece and the joyful Greek mornings.
Ithaki, on the Lemon Grove, is a a farm building that has been made prettier for occassional
use as a summer house and the Bougainvillea that was planted on the South-east corner in 2000
is one of the few plants to have survived storms, neglect, svavanging by wild creatures,
ice and drought. It is therefore very special and gifts with this design remind us that the
thorny plants are tough as well as beautiful!
Our Bark and Bamboo design contrasts with our bright flowers designs and shows
calm beauty of nature in shady places. Wild trees and bamboo are retained on all
Trigono groves in spite of the fact that they may block light from olives trees nearby
and thus reduce the olive crop. We take a pragmatic view that the water-loving bamboo
helps to anchor the soil on river banks or at the base of steep slopes and prevents
soil erosion. It also provides a habitat for other creatures and migrating birds feed
on the insects in these areas and roost in the bamboo. Bamboo grows and ages rapidly.
It was traditionally used to build internal house walls, fences and roofs and is an
easily renewable resource, though not lon-lived. We remove some periodically
and have to cut regularly, but don't routinely poison it.
Our yellow poppy design is flambouyant and cheerful. It is taken from the Yellow horned
poppy which grows along the coast in sandy, stony locations. Our concern is that the
natural coastline of the Methoni area is threatened; not just by being "tidied up" for
commercial and residential reasons but also by the fairly rapid erosion of old coastal
roads, tracks and paths by the sea, by increased traffic and by increased use of tarmac.
Trigono-Lamda produces between 100 and 500 litres of high quality
olive oil each year. The olives are harvested traditionally and the trees are not
suited to more commercial mechanical methods of harvesting which would
save labour costs. The price of olive oil has been falling in recent years and
Greece's rocky terrain and reliance on manual processes could be one of the contibuters
to it's ailing economy.
Our "I love olives" design features the large, black, kalamata eating olives from four
trees at the Lamda grove. Costs of harvest nearly always exceed income and any income
is spent on fertiliser and maintenance of the grove.
Proceeds from our online shop sales will contribute to the maintenance of the groves
in Greece so that at least some of the land around Methoni will support the ecology
and traditional lifestyle of the Peloponnese. Hopefully others who recognise the
special heritage of the area will also maintain their land in this way.
