Plants for a Mediterranean Garden

There are many Mediterranean-style plants that will flourish in sun-baked gardens - particularly if your soil is not too heavy.

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Moderately fertile, moist but well-drained soil, or peat-free general purpose compost (181)
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Attractive to wildlife

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Attractive to wildlife (273)

Quick growing

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Yes (207)

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Large (76)
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Small (358)

Special features

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Low maintenance (237)
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Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (172)
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Narcissus (Division 12) Miscellaneous (1)
Narcissus (Division 5) Triandrus (1)
Narcissus (Division 7) Jonquilla (2)
Narcissus (Division 8) Tazetta (1)

Bedding planting time

Autumn & winter planting bedding (1)
Spring & summer planting bedding (100)

Chelsea plant of year

2019 (1)
Centenary (2)

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November (2)
December (2)

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June (10)
July (4)
August (4)
September (7)
October (5)

Vegetable harvesting month

January (1)
February (1)
March (1)
April (1)
May (1)
June (1)
July (6)
August (6)
September (6)
October (1)
November (1)
December (1)

Vegetable groups

Other cooking vegetables (2)
Salad vegetables (3)

Multibuy packs

6 packs (10)
Multibuy offers (189)
Selected offers (25)

Ready made borders

Ready-made border Autumn colour (5)
Ready-made border Azure and gold border (2)
Ready-made border Blending purples (2)
Ready-made border Blue and silver (5)
Ready-made border Brilliant orange (1)
Ready-made border Budget (3)
Ready-made border Chalky soil (4)
Ready-made border Cool grasses and hot exotics (2)
Ready-made border Cottage garden scheme (6)
Ready-made border Divine summer (2)
Ready-made border Dry Mediterranean (8)
Ready-made border Early colour (4)
Ready-made border Elegant and architectural (1)
Ready-made border Fiery summer (4)
Ready-made border Flowers for pollinators (2)
Ready-made border Fresh and wild (1)
Ready-made border Gravel garden (2)
Ready-made border Jewel border (1)
Ready-made border Keep it cool (8)
Ready-made border Lady Marmalade (2)
Ready-made border Lime-green and orange (2)
Ready-made border Mediterranean (4)
Ready-made border Piet Oudolf Wisley (1)
Ready-made border Planting the woodland edge (2)
Ready-made border Red summer (8)
Ready-made border Sandy soil (8)
Ready-made border Shades of pink (1)
Ready-made border Shady sanctuary (1)
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Ready-made border Spring colour (1)
Ready-made border Stars of high summer (1)
Ready-made border Sun lovers (3)
Ready-made border Sunny pink (2)
Ready-made border The grand experience (3)

Planting combinations

Acid sun plant combination (1)
Agastache and Angelica plant combination (1)
Agastache and Echinops plant combination (2)
Astrantia and Geranium plant combination (1)
Attracting wildlife seed combination (1)
Blue and silver plant combination (3)
Contemporary plant combination (1)
Cool tones plant combination (1)
Create a praire plant combination (1)
Create a prairie plant combination (1)
Dazzling colour weed-smothering plant combination (3)
Drought tolerant plant combination (3)
Dry shade plant combination (1)
Dry sun plant combination (3)
Echinops and Achillea plant combination (4)
Echinops and Salvia plant combination (2)
Edible flowers plant and seed combination (4)
Featured combinations (2)
Kniphofia and Achillea plant combination (1)
Long flowering plant combination (2)
Low maintenance gems plant combination (2)
Low maintenance plant combination (summer) (2)
Oenothera and Perovskia plant combination (1)
Opposites attract plant combination (1)
Pink and purple long-flowering plant combination (3)
Pinks and purple dry shade plant combination (1)
Plants for pollinators plant combination (3)
Purple and gold plant combination (3)
Red and orange plant combination (1)
Rich tones slug resistant plant combination (1)
Sedum and Aster plant combination (1)
Shade lovers plant combination (2)
Shady lady plant combination (1)
Slug resistant plant combination (2)
Summer sizzlers plant combination (2)
Sun baked plant combination (4)
Sunny and dry plant combination (2)
Sunny chalk plant combination (1)
Sunny clay plant combination (1)
The Highgrove Kitchen Garden Collection (3)
The Highgrove Mediterranean Garden Collection (5)
Vibrant colour for bees plant combination (1)
White flowering seed combination (2)
Woodsmoke plant combination (1)
Yellow and gold plant combination (2)

Hardy

No (142)
Semi (183)
Yes (310)

Leaf colour

Blue (31)
Bronze (5)
Green (519)
Purple (25)
Red (14)
Silver (45)
Variegated (25)
Yellow (9)

Ground cover

No (384)
Yes (207)

Position

Arches & pergolas (13)
Back of border (59)
Bottom of hedges (19)
Conservatories (53)
Covering eyesores (8)
Front of border (362)
Middle of border (200)
Next to a patio (120)
Next to a pond (9)
Next to an entrance (118)
Next to seating areas (186)
Steep banks (118)
Through hedges (4)
Walls & fences (28)

Shape

Ball (1)
Bushy (1)
Fountain (5)
Hummock (1)
Lollipop (1)
Pyramid (1)
Spreading (4)

Soil moisture

Damp (11)
Dry/Sandy (371)
Normal (581)

Used at Chelsea

2001 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (3)
2002 - HRH The Prince of Wales - Laurent-Perrier (10)
2003 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (12)
2004 - Sir Terrance Conran - Laurent-Perrier (2)
2005 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (7)
2006 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (9)
2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (7)
2008 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (4)
2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (8)
2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (19)
2010 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (8)
2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (8)
2011 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (1)
2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (13)
2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (3)
2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (9)
2013 - Ulf Nordfjell - Laurent-Perrier (5)
2014 - Tommaso del Buono - Daily Telegraph (4)
2015 - Dan Pearson - Laurent-Perrier (2)
2015 - Marcus Barnett - Daily Telegraph (11)
2016 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (1)
2017 - James Basson - M & G (1)
2018 - Sarah Price - M & G (5)
2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (7)
2019 - Andy Sturgeon - M & G (3)
2019 - Sarah Eberley - Forestry Commission (7)
2022 - Andy Sturgeon - Mind Garden / Crocus (8)
2023 - Sarah Price - Nurture Garden (19)
2024 - Tom Stuart-Smith - National Garden Scheme (2)

Kitchen garden planting guidelines

Propagate in green house (21)
Suitable for compact container gardening (16)
Suitable for grow beds (29)
Suitable for large container gardening (30)
Suitable for window boxes (19)
Use cloche (21)

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