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 (27)
- Attractive seedheads (27)
- Autumn foliage colour (1)
- Berries or fruit (3)
- Coloured leaves (20)
- Colourful bark or stems (1)
- Easy to grow (9)
- Evergreen / semi evergreen (108)
- Fast growing (3)
- Flowering (227)
- Large leaved (1)
- Long flowering (54)
- Low maintenance (99)
- Makes a good hedge or screen (27)
- Non poisonous (195)
- Plants that are native (1)
- Plants that don't need pruning (5)
- Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (59)
- Plants that will cope with the odd football (6)
- Plants to deter vandals and burglars (1)
- Resistant to diseases (48)
- Stylish in the border (3)
- Sublime umbelliferas (15)
- Suitable for containers (88)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (7)
- Winter colour (64)
Sowing month inside or protected
Sowing month outside
Vegetable types
Plant Seasons
Hardy
Leaf colour
Ground cover
Position
Shape
Soil moisture
Used at Chelsea
- 2001 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (3)
- 2002 - HRH The Prince of Wales - Laurent-Perrier (8)
- 2003 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (11)
- 2004 - Sir Terrance Conran - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2005 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (7)
- 2006 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (9)
- 2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (8)
- 2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2008 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (4)
- 2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (8)
- 2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (14)
- 2010 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (7)
- 2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (10)
- 2011 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (10)
- 2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (3)
- 2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (3)
- 2013 - Ulf Nordfjell - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2014 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2014 - Tommaso del Buono - Daily Telegraph (5)
- 2015 - Dan Pearson - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2015 - Marcus Barnett - Daily Telegraph (9)
- 2016 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (2)
- 2017 - James Basson - M & G (2)
- 2018 - Sarah Price - M & G (6)
- 2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (9)
Seed planting guidelines
Cistus × hybridus
£13.99
chives
£5.99
rosemary
£12.99
Hebe 'Red Edge'
£14.99
Olearia × haastii
£14.99
Kniphofia uvaria
£11.99
Phlomis italica
£17.99
Laurus nobilis
£59.99
Laurus nobilis
£34.99
Laurus nobilis
£89.99
Geranium sanguineum 'Album'
£11.99
£7.99
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