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.
By far the best fig for the UK
- Boasts a traditional, sweet figgy taste
- Fully hardy and well-suited to the UK climate
- Caramelise and serve with balsamic vinegar
- Pick in August and September
The OG for summer scent
- Starry white blooms with notes of vanilla
- Evergreen for year-round interest
- Happy in full sun to partial shade
- Flowers from June to September
Zingy lemons all year round
- Evergreen foliage and fragrant flowers
- Grafted for stronger growth
- Make the best lemon meringue pie!
- Fresh, zesty fruits throughout the year
A deserved award winner
- Mouthwateringly juicy and flavourful
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
- Try a chicken, grape and za'atar salad
- Pick your grapes in August and September
Incredibly versatile vine
- Deliciously sweet and rich flavour
- Ideal for the UK's climate
- Great for making jams, jellies, juice or wine
- Pick in September
The best herb? Could well be!
- Punchy herbal flavour with sweet notes
- Perfect for growing on the window sill
- Ideal for creamy tomato soups
- Harvest your basil from June to October
An unbeatable kitchen staple
- Classic lemon-pine, peppery, herby flavour
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
- Perfect for studding roast lamb
- Harvest throughout the year
Blooms for months and months
- Loves a spot in full sun
- Great in beds, borders, hedges and pots
- Flowers from May to September
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
Wonderful notes of strawberry
- Delicious grapes with a strawberry undertone
- Very productive and easy to grow
- Eat fresh or mash to make grape juice
- Ready to harvest in September
Grown in the Versailles gardens!
- Sweet with undertones of strawberry
- Often produces two crops per season
- Bake a fig, coffee and hazelnut cake
- Harvest in July and again in September
As iconic as they come!
- Give it as sunny a spot as possible
- Thrives in beds and borders in dry soil
- Flowers from June to August
- Hardier than French and Spanish lavenders
A kitchen staple, fresh all year
- Intense, almost mint-like, herby flavour
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
- Whip up a thyme and garlic butter
- Pick your thyme all year long
An absolute classic for wine
- Wonderfully sweet and punchy flavour
- Hardy and fast-growing
- Rustle up a batch of grape muffins
- Harvest in August and September
The organic gardeners' choice
- Delicate Muscat notes with a great aroma
- Famed for its natural disease resistance
- Delicious eaten fresh from the vine
- Harvest your grapes in September
Uncommonly bright and fragrant!
- Linen-white blooms and mid-green leaves
- A twining climber that easily scales a fence
- Happy in full sun and partial shade
- Flowers from June to August
Punchy flavour, stunning foliage
- Floral, aromatic and rich flavour
- Modern, mildew-resistant grape
- Perfect for making your own wine
- Harvest your grapes in September
Adored by the RHS (and us)
- Delectably sweet, honeyed taste
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
- Ideal for eating straight from the vine
- Ready to harvest in August and September
A gourmet, heritage French fig
- Jammy and sweet with full-bodied flavour
- Vigorous but still suitable for pot growing
- Whip up a sticky fig and caramel pudding
- Your figs will be ready to pick in August
Grow your own delicious oranges
- Sumptuously sweet and juicy
- Wonderfully fragrant flowers
- Eat fresh, juice or slice and candy in sugar
- Can fruit at any time of the year!
The iconic white grape
- Deliciously sweet, golden grapes
- Perfect on a patio pergola
- Give home winemaking a go!
- Harvest in September
What blooms in winter? This guy!
- Lemon-yellow flowers on green stems
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
- Happy in both full sun and partial shade
- Flowers from January to March
The 17th century 'Tiger Fig'
- Notes of raspberry and strawberry!
- Unusual and distinctive striped figs
- Bake some blue cheese and fig tarts
- Harvest in August and September
An award winning Salvia with massive blooms
- Uniquely large violet purple flower spikes
- Flowers all summer long and into Autumn!
- Hardy and very easy to grow and care for
- Buy an almost mature plant ready to bloom!
Britain's favourite indoor grape
- Brilliant levels of juicy sweetness
- Vigorous and easy to grow
- Use to make homemade grape juice
- Harvest your grapes in August and September