Mediterranean Plants
Wish you were here?
If you're looking for a way to update your garden and bring a little bit of sunshine to your outdoor spaces, Mediterranean planting is a breath of fresh air. Think clean lines, neat shrubs, terracotta pots full of rosemary and lavender, feature foliage, fig trees and sitting under a shady pergola draped with fragrant jasmine and grapevines. And the best bit? these plants are tough, low maintenance and ideal for the UK climate.
Fast-growing and fragrant
- Powder pink flowers and dark green leaves
- Fast-growing, vigorous climber
- Likes full sun (grows in partial shade)
- Flowers from June to July
One of the hardiest grapes
- Dark grapes with a sweet, fruity taste
- Seedless with good disease resistance
- Whip up a grape clafoutis
- Grapes ready to harvest in September
Jewel-toned evergreen Agapanthus
- Happy in full sun to partial shade
- Add height and drama to containers and borders
- Flowers June to September
- Highly drought-tolerant
Abundant flowers? Not half!
- Glorious clusters of fragrant white blooms
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
- Happy in sun (and partial shade)
- Flowers from March to April
Rose towers of bloom from Spring to Autumn
- Large, vibrant magenta pink flowers all summer
- Flowers from May to October!
- Hardy and very easy to grow and care for
- Compact, neat growth of dark green foliage
Trugfuls of delicious figs
- Good sweetness with hints of melon
- Self-fertile (no pollination partner needed)
- Roast your figs with honey and Marsala wine
- Ready to harvest in August and September
The deepest blue, with extra texture
- Blue, thimble-shaped flowerheads circled by a ruff of spiky, silvery bracts
- Flowers throughout July and August
- Perfect for borders, pots and cut flower gardens
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
Zest to impress
- Intensely fragrant, citrusy taste
- Self-fertile (no cross-pollination needed)
- Add the leaves and zest to Thai curries
- Harvest the fruit and leaves all year round
This season's must-have, in White
- Clusters of Cotton White flowers on upright spires
- Flowers from June to October
- Stunning as a feature in pots
- Adds height to a Cottage Garden border
Big figs, even bigger flavour
- Deliciously juicy with intense flavour
- Crops reliably in the UK
- Makes a delicious fig and walnut chutney
- Harvest your figs from August to September
Shimmering white with a hint of blue
- Loves a spot in full sun
- Add height and drama in containers and borders
- Flowers June to September
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
As enjoyed by Cleopatra!
- Grapes with a divine aromatic taste
- Highly-vigorous with an incredible heritage
- Wonderful eaten fresh and used for raisins
- Harvest from August to September
Spires of plush Purple stars
- Plant in full sun to partial shade
- Add drama to borders or containers
- Flowers June to September
- Fully hardy down to -10C
Stunning, deeply-cut foliage
- Subtly sweet flavour
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
- Prepare a fig and almond loaf cake
- Harvest your delicous figs in August
The drop of gold fig
- Decadent, juicy and sweet
- Perfect for pots!
- Roast with honey or bake in a pie
- Biferous (harvests in June and August)
Vampires love 'em!
- Big, bold sweetness and tartness
- Oranges with vibrant, ruby-coloured flesh
- Eat as wedges or use to make sticky marmalade
- Harvest from December to April
Per(fect)lette!
- Sweet, mild-tasting dessert grapes
- Highly-productive and easy to grow
- Pop straight in your mouth for a sweet hit!
- Harvest from Autumn to September
Delicate Lavender Blue, adored by bees
- Lavender blue flowers rising from emerald green foliage
- Flowers from June to October
- Stunning as a feature in pots
- Perfect for the front of a border
One of the finest French figs
- Sweet, jammy and juicy
- Incredibly easy to grow
- Dry for a handy (and tasty!) snack
- Harvest in September
An explosion of flavour
- Large grapes with a juicy and aromatic taste
- Bunches half a kilo in weight (or heavier)
- Eat straight from the vine or dry for raisins
- Harvest from August to September
Racemes up to 50cm long!
- Impressive two-toned sprays (up to 50cm long)
- Can have upwards of 100 flowers per raceme
- Grows well in full sun, copes with part shade
- Flowers from May to June
Step aside lemon and lime...
- A combination of sweet and sour
- Perfect for patio growing
- Eat fresh, use in drinks or make a marmalade
- Harvest from July to November
Want to try winemaking?
- More intense sweetness than table grapes
- Displays great resistance to fungal diseases
- Can be used to create various different wines
- Harvest from August to October
From the banks of the Thames
- Incredibly moreish sweetness
- A prolific cropper
- Pick and eat fresh, or roast with honey
- Harvest in September