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
Flowering month
Flower colour
Evergreen / deciduous
Fragrance
Attractive to wildlife
Quick growing
Eventual size
Special features
- Architectural silhouettes (24)
- Attractive seedheads (25)
- Autumn foliage colour (1)
- Berries or fruit (4)
- Coloured leaves (16)
- Colourful bark or stems (1)
- Easy to grow (9)
- Evergreen / semi evergreen (88)
- Fast growing (2)
- Flowering (192)
- Long flowering (51)
- Low maintenance (90)
- Makes a good hedge or screen (21)
- Non poisonous (176)
- Plants that are native (1)
- Plants that don't need pruning (3)
- Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (47)
- Plants that will cope with the odd football (7)
- Plants to deter vandals and burglars (1)
- Resistant to diseases (41)
- Stylish in the border (1)
- Sublime umbelliferas (13)
- Suitable for containers (78)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (7)
- Winter colour (53)
Sowing month inside or protected
Sowing month outside
Plant Seasons
Hardy
Leaf colour
Ground cover
Position
Shape
Soil moisture
Used at Chelsea
- 2001 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2002 - HRH The Prince of Wales - Laurent-Perrier (6)
- 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 (9)
- 2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (7)
- 2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2008 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (8)
- 2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (12)
- 2010 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (3)
- 2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (9)
- 2011 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (8)
- 2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (2)
- 2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (3)
- 2013 - Ulf Nordfjell - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2014 - Tommaso del Buono - Daily Telegraph (3)
- 2015 - Marcus Barnett - Daily Telegraph (8)
- 2016 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2017 - James Basson - M & G (1)
- 2018 - Sarah Price - M & G (4)
- 2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (6)
Seed planting guidelines
Cistus × hybridus
£13.99
rosemary
£12.99
£11.04
Olearia × haastii
£14.99
Kniphofia uvaria
£11.99
Laurus nobilis
£59.99
Laurus nobilis
£29.99
£25.49
Laurus nobilis
£79.99
fig 'Panachée'
£17.99
rosemary
£1.99
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