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.
By type
Facing
How much sun
Special conditions
Soil type
Evergreen / deciduous
Quick growing
Flower colour
Fragrance
Eventual size
Flowering month
Attractive to wildlife
Special features
- Architectural silhouettes (21)
- Attractive seedheads (5)
- Berries or fruit (2)
- Coloured leaves (18)
- Colourful bark or stems (1)
- Easy to grow (6)
- Evergreen / semi evergreen (73)
- Fast growing (2)
- Flowering (156)
- Large leaved (1)
- Long flowering (40)
- Low maintenance (75)
- Makes a good hedge or screen (14)
- Non poisonous (144)
- Plants that are native (1)
- Plants that don't need pruning (4)
- Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (44)
- Plants that will cope with the odd football (6)
- Plants to deter vandals and burglars (1)
- Resistant to diseases (26)
- Stylish in the border (2)
- Sublime umbelliferas (10)
- Suitable for containers (53)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (3)
- Winter colour (43)
Sowing month inside or protected
Sowing month outside
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Hardy
Soil moisture
Ground cover
Leaf colour
Position
Used at Chelsea
- 2001 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2002 - HRH The Prince of Wales - Laurent-Perrier (5)
- 2003 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (10)
- 2004 - Sir Terrance Conran - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2005 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (6)
- 2006 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (10)
- 2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (7)
- 2008 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (4)
- 2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (9)
- 2010 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (8)
- 2011 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (6)
- 2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (2)
- 2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (2)
- 2013 - Ulf Nordfjell - Laurent-Perrier (3)
- 2014 - Tommaso del Buono - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2015 - Dan Pearson - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2015 - Marcus Barnett - Daily Telegraph (8)
- 2016 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2016 - Jekka McVicar - St John's Hospice (1)
- 2017 - James Basson - M & G (1)
- 2018 - Sarah Price - M & G (4)
- 2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (6)
Shape
Seed planting guidelines
Achillea 'Moonshine'
£9.99
£7.99
Cistus × hybridus
£13.99
chives
£5.99
rosemary
£12.99
Geranium 'Philippe Vapelle'
£9.99
£8.99
Knautia macedonica
£5.99
£3.99
Nepeta × faassenii
£9.99
£7.99
Hylotelephium 'Matrona'
£9.99
£8.99
Hebe 'Red Edge'
£12.99
Laurus nobilis
£59.99
Laurus nobilis
£29.99
Erysimum 'Bowles's Mauve'
£5.99
£3.99
Geranium Rozanne ('Gerwat') (PBR)
£8.99
£6.99
Hesperis matronalis
£2.29
£1.83
Hesperis matronalis var. albiflora
£2.29
£1.83
Geranium Rozanne ('Gerwat') (PBR)
£12.99
£9.99
thyme - common (organic)
£1.99
£1.59
tarragon 'Russian'
£1.99
£1.59
rosemary
£1.99
£1.59
oregano - Greek
£1.99
£1.59
Sedum collection
£34.94
£17.97
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