Fountains A classic Mediterranean garden often features a central fountain. Choose one with a simple, elegant design that allows water to trickle gently, creating a calming soundtrack for your garden.

When using Mediterranean herbs, don't be afraid to go bold or formal in your design. It takes courage to plant 50 lavender plants along a pathway, but the effect will be well worth it.

Xeric garden style still gets a bad rap. Some people shun water-wise landscaping, believing the approach requires stereotypical rocks and cactuses. Xeriscape comes from the Greek word xeros, meanin… ...

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Whatever your garden style there's always room for some landscaping with lavender. It's equally at home planted in loose drifts in a Mediterranean or cottage garden, and works well clipped into ...

The Action News team takes you on a tour of the show as we explore Mediterranean-themed gardens filled with olive trees, citrus groves, stunning succulents and lavender for days.

Architecture + Design This Mediterranean Mega-Garden Is A Place For Dreamers Garden guru Fernando Caruncho cultivates an ancient attitude at an estate on the Aegean Sea ...

Elevate your garden with a few of his flower choices. "Mediterranean plants like bougainvillea and palm trees will add a touch of tropical flair, while their lush foliage provides much-needed ...

Gardens such as these have been popular all around the Mediterranean Basin for the past 150 years, since plant collectors connected with an earlier generation of plant explorers.

A garden makes an offbeat souvenir. In 1935, following a spring trip to Greece, the British poet and writer Vita Sackville-West and her husband, Harold Nicolson, a historian and diplomat, began ...