Mediterranean garden: plants & tips for creating

With a Mediterranean garden you can bring that holiday feeling home. We present 10 Mediterranean plants that create a southern flair in the garden.

For many, a vacation in the sunny south is the highlight of every year. But it's not just the warm weather and great beaches that make the Mediterranean area so popular with tourists - the unique flora also casts a spell over many. Fortunately, you can also grow numerous Mediterranean plants in our gardens and bring a piece of Mediterranean romance into your home. Here you can find out how you can do this best and which plants exude a particularly large amount of Mediterranean flair. A Mediterranean garden is a true oasis of wellbeing and the dream of many gardeners. Fortunately, you can also bring a piece of the south into your garden in Germany with the right plants.

Mediterranean garden: This must be taken into account when designing

Warm temperatures and bright sunshine - the Mediterranean area is particularly known for its pleasant climate. Mediterranean plants are also often true sun worshipers and should therefore be given a light place and not have to hide in dark corners. As far as the soil is concerned, the plants have requirements: it should be as permeable and low in nutrients as possible so that the exotic species also feel at home in our latitudes. Many plants, on the other hand, cannot tolerate waterlogging at all. But despite good care, some plants cannot survive outdoors all year round. Fortunately, however, many Mediterranean trees and shrubs are suitable as Container plant and can enrich the garden in summer while they spend the cold winter indoors.

But not only the right plants are important if you want to design a Mediterranean garden. The arrangement of the individual beds and the selection of suitable materials are also of great importance. Typically, Mediterranean gardens are very symmetrical and divided into clear geometric shapes. The focus is usually on water, which in the form of a water feature, fountain or even pond represents the highlight of the garden. A terrace or a pavilion should not be missing in the Mediterranean gardens. Natural stones and metal with patina are particularly attractive materials, muted colors round off the picture harmoniously.

The 10 most beautiful plants for a Mediterranean garden

So that you can design your garden in a particularly Mediterranean way, we present our ten most beautiful plants for a Mediterranean garden below.

1. Shrub roses

Roses (pink) must not be missing in any garden - the Mediterranean garden is no exception. Shrub roses in particular are welcome here. With their imposing growth and their striking flowers, these underline the elegant charm of the garden and can be used universally. So shrub roses can both form the center of the garden as an elegant solitaire or stand charmingly in the background. In addition, many types of shrub rose exude a seductive scent that is directly reminiscent of a holiday on the Mediterranean.

2. cypress

Real cypress trees (Cupressus sempervirens) are indispensable in Tuscany and shape the landscape of entire areas with their columnar growth. In Germany, however, the slender trees are sufficiently frost-hardy only for the mildest regions and are therefore difficult to cultivate. If you are looking for a worthy replacement for the Mediterranean tree, the columnar juniper (Juniperus scopulorum) find what they are looking for. The plant also has the typical, columnar growth and is also very hardy.

3. Imperial Crown

When in April the imperial crown (Fritillaria imperialis) blooms, it outshines most others with its beauty spring flowers. The plant proudly wears its unique corolla made up of numerous bluebells. With its distinctive shape and warm flower colors, it fits perfectly into the more Mediterranean garden and provides beautiful color accents as early as spring. But their bewitching scent also ensures that you only want to spend your vacation in your own garden.

4. Citrus trees

Fruit trees are a must for every garden and of course no such plant should be missing in a bed with a Mediterranean touch. Citrus trees such as orange (Citrus sinensis) or lemon (Citrus × limon), even if they can only be cultivated as a container plant due to the climate and Hibernate oranges in the house have to. So-called four-season lemons in particular are a real insider tip for Mediterranean gardens - they don't bear only all year round delicious fruits, but also bloom wonderfully and pamper their owner with an intense Odor.

5. Daylilies

Warm flower colors are essential to give a garden a Mediterranean flair. The daylily is perfect for this (Hemerocallis). With its mostly yellow to orange-red flowers, the plant is real sunshine in the garden. What many do not even notice is that the flowers only last a single day - luckily they will directly replaced by a new, magnificent flower, making the daylily a real eye-catcher from June to August represents. But the plant is not only pretty: all parts of the plant can also be used in the kitchen, especially those edible flowers are considered a real insider tip.

6. basil

What would a Mediterranean vacation be without pasta? And what would pasta be without a fresh pesto? For this reason alone, every friend of the Mediterranean lifestyle should basil (Ocimum basilicum) plant in his garden. The aromatic herb goes perfectly with pasta, but is also a hit with tomatoes or as a seasoning for meat dishes. The kitchen plant is particularly popular because of its uncomplicated nature. The basil hardly needs any care if you let it grow in a warm, sunny place.

7. oleander

Those who go on vacation in the south hardly come at oleander (Nerium oleander) - the flowering shrub is one of the most popular ornamental plants in the Mediterranean and has many friends in Germany too. Since the plant is quite sensitive to cold, it enriches gardens in our latitudes, especially as a container plant, and is a guarantee for Mediterranean flair. Especially the eye-catching flowers, which are available in countless colors and variations thanks to around 400 oleander varieties, make the plant a real eye-catcher. But be careful: Oleander is poisonous and should therefore not get into the hands of small children or animals.

8. Triple flower

Whether as a bush, stem or on a trellis - the triple flower (Bougainvillea glabra) exudes the southern flair like no other. With its outstanding beauty, the charismatic plant enchants every garden into a Mediterranean oasis of well-being, as if by magic. The blooms are also called Bougainvillea known plant rather inconspicuous: petite and white, they hardly catch the eye. The strong pink-violet colored bracts, on the other hand, are a real splendor and immediately attract everyone's attention. In Germany, because of its sensitivity to frost, the plant is mainly found in pots, where it also cuts a fine figure.

9. Olive tree

Hardly any other plant is as closely connected to the Mediterranean as this one Olive tree (Olea europaea). The tree was already worshiped in ancient Greece for its fruits and the olive oil made from it, and the plant still shapes the landscape of many areas today. If you want to bring the Mediterranean flair into your own garden, the olive tree is the perfect choice. However, the plant with its conspicuously silvery-green leaves is only partially hardy - as a container plant in a terracotta pot the olive tree convinces as an impressive solitaire, which not only with its fruits, but also with its enchanting blossoms can score.

tip: Nutrients are used up quickly, especially in the bucket. This can be remedied by an organic liquid fertilizer that is simply administered via the irrigation water. Our Plantura Organic citrus and mediteranean fertilizers is perfectly matched to Mediterranean plants such as the olive tree and also promotes root growth for strong and resistant plants.

10. lavender

With its intense fragrance and its unmistakable color, it wakes you up lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) immediately the longing for a vacation in Provence. In fact, the lavender fields that shape the landscape have now become real tourist magnets Mediterranean area - no wonder, after all, the blue-violet flower spikes impress with hers unmistakable charm. Even in Germany, the hardy lavender, with its impressive beauty and extreme variability, must not be missing in any Mediterranean garden. Even the more cold-sensitive variations of the plant - like the one Coppy lavender (Lavandula stoechas) or the tooth lavender (Lavandula dentata) - are to be found more and more often in Germany and thrive wonderfully as potted plants.