THE NURSERY SHOP

Plants raised for this climate

Cedars, citrus, palms, shrubs, and turf, selected and grown for Lebanese soil, sun, and altitude.

Everything in this catalogue is stock we plant and maintain ourselves, from the Cedar of Lebanon to a tray of radish seedlings. Browse by plant type or by collection, open any plant for its blooming, fruiting, and care notes, then send the order straight to us on WhatsApp. We confirm availability, price, and delivery before anything is charged.

Fruit Trees

Citrus, stone fruit, and the old Levantine standards: fig, pomegranate, loquat, carob, and mulberry. Grafted stock selected for Lebanese orchards and courtyards, and for the altitude they will actually be planted at.

Sweet Orange

Citrus sinensis

The orange that built the Lebanese coast. Sweet, thin-skinned fruit on a compact evergreen that flowers white and scents an entire courtyard in spring. Best below about 700m, where winter cold stays gentle.

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Lemon

Citrus limon

A lemon tree earns its space twice over: heavy scent when it flowers, and fruit through the coldest months when the rest of the garden has stopped giving. Happy in open ground along the coast and in a large pot anywhere the winter turns sharp.

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Mandarin

Citrus reticulata

Easy-peeling, intensely fragrant, and the first citrus most Lebanese children learn to pick themselves. Naturally smaller than an orange tree, which makes it the citrus to choose for a courtyard or a large terrace pot.

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Apple

Malus domestica

A mountain crop in Lebanon, and one that rewards altitude: apples need real winter cold to set fruit properly, so they perform far better above 900m than on the coast. Blossom in spring is worth the space on its own.

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Pear

Pyrus communis

Longer-lived and more forgiving than apple, with upright growth that suits a narrow space or a trained wall. Like apples it wants mountain winters, and it will happily outlast the person who plants it.

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Peach

Prunus persica

Pink blossom before the leaves, then fruit that never survives the trip from a supermarket in the condition it leaves the tree. Fast to crop, generous, and comparatively short-lived, so plant a replacement before the old one tires.

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Apricot

Prunus armeniaca

The earliest blossom in the orchard, sometimes as soon as February, which is exactly its weakness: a late frost catches the flowers and there is no crop that year. Plant it somewhere sheltered and slightly elevated where cold air drains away.

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Sweet Cherry

Prunus avium

Spectacular in flower and demanding in fruit. Cherries want mountain cold, deep soil, and someone willing to argue with the birds. Where conditions suit them, in the Lebanese highlands, few trees are more worth the trouble.

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Plum

Prunus domestica

The most forgiving of the stone fruits and the heaviest cropper for the space it takes. Handles a wider range of Lebanese altitudes than cherry or apple, and often fruits so generously that branches need support.

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Fig

Ficus carica

As close to a native as an orchard tree gets here. Figs ask for almost nothing, tolerate poor stony ground, and often give two crops a season. The leaf alone is worth the planting.

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Pomegranate

Punica granatum

Scarlet trumpet flowers in early summer, then fruit that stores for months after picking. Drought tolerant once established and equally at home as a small tree or a thick informal hedge.

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Loquat

Eriobotrya japonica

The akkadinia that ripens before anything else in the orchard, and one of the few trees that flowers in autumn and fruits in spring. Broad leathery leaves give it a tropical presence in an otherwise Mediterranean garden.

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Persimmon

Diospyros kaki

Grown for two things: fruit that hangs like lanterns after the leaves drop, and autumn colour that few other trees here can match. Astringent varieties need to go fully soft before they are edible, which catches people out.

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Quince

Cydonia oblonga

Too hard and too sour to eat raw, and completely transformed by cooking into the fragrant preserve that fills Lebanese kitchens in autumn. A gnarled, characterful small tree with large pale pink flowers.

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White Mulberry

Morus alba

The tree that fed Lebanon's silk industry, and still found beside old houses across the mountains. Sweeter and paler than the black mulberry, with fruit that does not stain, and dense shade in summer.

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Black Mulberry

Morus nigra

Darker, sharper, and far better flavoured than the white mulberry, and the one worth planting for eating. Slow to start and long-lived, developing a leaning, characterful trunk with age.

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English Walnut

Juglans regia

A large, generous shade tree that happens to produce nuts. Needs real space and real patience, and repays both. Common through the Lebanese mountains, where the winter chill suits it.

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Carob

Ceratonia siliqua

One of the toughest trees in this catalogue and deeply rooted in Lebanese food culture through carob molasses. Evergreen, drought-proof once established, and capable of holding dry stony slopes where little else will grow.

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Mango

Mangifera indica

Strictly a coastal and frost-free proposition in Lebanon, and a striking evergreen where it works, with bronze new growth that flushes several times a year. In cooler areas it makes an excellent large container tree given winter shelter.

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Avocado

Persea americana

A handsome broad-leaved evergreen that has become genuinely productive along the Lebanese coast. Roots are shallow and easily damaged, so it wants a permanent, undisturbed position from the start.

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Olive Tree

Olea europaea

The tree that defines a Lebanese hillside. Slow, silver leaved, and effectively permanent once established, an olive will outlive the garden it is planted in. Our stock is field grown and hardened off, so it moves into open ground without sulking.

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Conifers

Cedars, firs, spruces, pines, and cypress. The trees that hold a hillside together and give a garden its winter structure, including the Cedar of Lebanon itself.

Cedar of Lebanon

Cedrus libani

The national tree, and the one specimen that changes a piece of land permanently. Young trees are narrow and upright; it is only with decades that the flat, layered canopy everyone recognises begins to form. Plant it for the people who come after you.

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Atlas Cedar

Cedrus atlantica

The North African cousin of the Lebanese cedar, faster to establish and more tolerant of heat and poor soil. A strong choice where you want cedar presence sooner than a Cedrus libani will deliver it.

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Blue Atlas Cedar

Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca'

The silver-blue selection of the Atlas cedar, and one of the strongest colour statements available in a large conifer. The foliage holds its blue through the whole year, reading almost metallic against a stone wall.

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Weeping Blue Atlas Cedar

Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca Pendula'

A living sculpture rather than a conventional tree. Trained over an arch or allowed to cascade down a bank, its weeping blue branches take whatever shape you give them, and no two specimens ever look alike.

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Deodar Cedar

Cedrus deodara

The most graceful of the cedars, with soft drooping branch tips and a gently nodding leading shoot. Faster growing than the Lebanese cedar and more tolerant of summer heat, which makes it a practical large specimen for Lebanese gardens.

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Golden Deodar Cedar

Cedrus deodara 'Aurea'

A golden-foliaged deodar that lifts a dark planting scheme through the whole winter. New growth emerges bright yellow and softens to gold, strongest on the outer, sun-facing branches.

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Nordmann Fir

Abies nordmanniana

Dense, glossy, and soft to the touch, with needles that hold far longer than most firs. Best known as a premium Christmas tree, but a fine formal evergreen in the ground where summers are not brutally hot.

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European Silver Fir

Abies alba

A tall, stately forest conifer with silver-banded needles and a strongly upright habit. A tree for altitude and for space, better suited to Lebanese mountain properties than to the coast.

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White Fir

Abies concolor

The most heat and drought tolerant of the firs, with long soft blue-grey needles and an open, layered habit. The sensible choice where you want fir character without mountain conditions.

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Korean Fir

Abies koreana

Compact enough for a real garden rather than an estate, and grown above all for the upright violet-purple cones it carries even on young plants. Needles show bright silver undersides that catch the light as they move.

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Blue Spruce

Picea pungens

Rigid, symmetrical, and unmistakably blue, with the stiff prickly needles that distinguish a spruce from a fir at a touch. A strong architectural presence, particularly against stone or in snow.

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Colorado Blue Spruce

Picea pungens 'Glauca'

The intensely silver-blue selection of the blue spruce, and the strongest colour of any conifer here. Formal, conical, and slow enough to stay in scale for many years.

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Norway Spruce

Picea abies

Fast, tough, and inexpensive, with long pendulous cones and branches that sweep downward with age. The traditional European Christmas tree, and a reliable windbreak or screen at altitude.

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Oriental Spruce

Picea orientalis

The most refined spruce in the group, with very short, dense, glossy dark needles and a narrow elegant outline. Slower and better mannered than Norway spruce, and more tolerant of heat.

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Serbian Spruce

Picea omorika

Remarkably narrow for its height, with gracefully drooping branches turned up at the tips. Where you want a tall conifer but have almost no width to give it, this is usually the answer.

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Mediterranean Cypress

Cupressus sempervirens

The dark exclamation mark of every Mediterranean landscape, and native to this region. Planted in a line it makes a windbreak and a boundary at once; planted singly it frames a view. Extremely long-lived and almost indifferent to drought.

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Stone Pine

Pinus pinea

The umbrella pine of the Lebanese coast, unmistakable in silhouette and the source of the pine nuts used across the region's cooking. Young trees are rounded and bushy, and the flat-topped canopy only develops with real age.

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Norfolk Island Pine

Araucaria heterophylla

Perfectly symmetrical tiers of horizontal branches, more architectural than any true pine. Frost tender, so it is a coastal tree in Lebanon and an excellent large container plant everywhere else.

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Palms

From hardy windmill and Mediterranean fan palms to date palms and the architectural Canary Island specimen. Chosen for coastal gardens, courtyards, and the frost that catches people out at altitude.

Canary Island Date Palm

Phoenix canariensis

The grand landmark palm, with a massive pineapple-textured trunk and a crown that can span ten metres. This is a specimen tree for a driveway, a hotel forecourt, or an estate entrance, not for a small garden.

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Date Palm

Phoenix dactylifera

The true date palm, slimmer and more upright than its Canary Island relative, and productive in hot dry positions. Suckers freely at the base, which can be removed for a single clean trunk or left for a clumped grove effect.

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Pygmy Date Palm

Phoenix roebelenii

A miniature date palm reaching only two or three metres, with a slender trunk and fine arching fronds. The palm to use in a courtyard, beside a pool, or in a large pot on a terrace, and equally happy indoors in bright light.

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Mexican Fan Palm

Washingtonia robusta

The tall, slender fan palm that lines coastal boulevards, growing fast and reaching considerable height on a narrow trunk. Useful where you want vertical scale quickly and have little ground area to give it.

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California Fan Palm

Washingtonia filifera

Stouter and heavier than the Mexican fan palm, with a thick trunk and a dense crown. Slower growing and more cold tolerant, which makes it the better choice slightly inland or at modest altitude.

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Windmill Palm

Trachycarpus fortunei

The most cold-hardy palm in this catalogue, with a slim fibre-covered trunk and stiff fan leaves. This is the palm that will survive a Lebanese mountain winter where nothing else with fronds would.

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Mediterranean Fan Palm

Chamaerops humilis

The only palm native to continental Europe and North Africa, naturally multi-stemmed and shrubby rather than tall. Exceptionally tough, and the most regionally appropriate palm for a water-wise Lebanese garden.

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Chinese Fan Palm

Livistona chinensis

Broad, deeply divided fan leaves with elegantly drooping tips, giving a softer and more tropical effect than the stiffer Washingtonia palms. Good in a courtyard or as a large container specimen.

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Queen Palm

Syagrus romanzoffiana

A fast, graceful feather palm with a smooth grey trunk and a full arching crown. Gives a genuinely tropical effect quickly, which is exactly why it is planted so widely along warm coastlines.

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Mexican Blue Palm

Brahea armata

Striking waxy silver-blue fan leaves on a slow-growing, stocky trunk. One of the most beautiful and most drought-proof palms available, and a genuine focal point in a gravel or water-wise garden.

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Parlor Palm

Chamaedorea elegans

The classic indoor palm, tolerating low light and dry rooms better than almost any other. Small, slow, and undemanding, it has been a houseplant for well over a century for good reason.

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Areca Palm

Dypsis lutescens

Full, feathery, and golden-stemmed, the areca is the palm to use when you want an indoor plant that reads as a piece of furniture. Clumping habit gives it density from the base up.

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Flowering Trees

Trees grown for the weeks they take over a garden. Crape myrtle through the heat of summer, coral tree in scarlet, chaste tree in lavender-blue.

Crape Myrtle 'Natchez'

Lagerstroemia indica 'Natchez'

The white-flowered Natchez is the largest and most elegant crape myrtle, flowering for weeks in high summer when almost nothing else does, then showing cinnamon-coloured peeling bark all winter.

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Crape Myrtle 'Tuscarora'

Lagerstroemia indica 'Tuscarora'

Deep coral pink flowers over a broad vase-shaped crown, and mottled bark that becomes a feature once the leaves fall. One of the most reliable and disease-resistant crape myrtles for hot summers.

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Crape Myrtle 'Muskogee'

Lagerstroemia indica 'Muskogee'

Soft lavender flowers over an exceptionally long season, on one of the tallest and fastest crape myrtles. A good street or driveway tree where you want summer colour at height.

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Crape Myrtle 'Dynamite'

Lagerstroemia indica 'Dynamite'

True red flowers, which are rare in this genus and hold their colour rather than fading to pink in heat. New foliage emerges red in spring, giving a second season of interest.

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Black Diamond Crape Myrtle

Lagerstroemia indica 'Black Diamond'

Near-black foliage held all season, against flowers in vivid contrast. The darkest-leaved crape myrtle available and a genuine design tool for breaking up a garden of uniform green.

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Cockspur Coral Tree

Erythrina crista-galli

Scarlet flowers shaped like clawed beaks, carried in large sprays through late spring and summer. An unmistakable, slightly wild-looking small tree that draws every bird in the neighbourhood.

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Chaste Tree

Vitex agnus-castus

Lavender-blue flower spikes through the hottest weeks of summer, over aromatic grey-green foliage. Native to the Mediterranean, entirely drought proof once rooted, and heavily worked by bees.

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Weeping Bottlebrush

Callistemon viminalis

Long weeping branches hung with bright red bottlebrush flowers, repeating intermittently from spring through summer. Tough, fast, and tolerant of poor soil, heat, and coastal wind.

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Evergreen Trees

Broadleaf evergreens that keep a garden furnished in January. Bay laurel, ficus, paperbark, and pepper tree, all of them workhorses in Mediterranean planting.

Bay Laurel

Laurus nobilis

The laurel of the kitchen and of classical wreaths, native to this region and equally happy clipped into a formal shape or left as a large informal shrub. Aromatic, evergreen, and genuinely useful.

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Indian Laurel Fig

Ficus microcarpa

A dense, glossy evergreen fig used everywhere in the region for shade, street planting, and heavy clipped hedging. Grows fast, takes hard pruning without complaint, and casts genuinely useful shade.

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Broad-leaved Paperbark

Melaleuca quinquenervia

Grown for its extraordinary bark, which peels in thick papery cream layers, and for creamy bottlebrush flowers that draw bees for weeks. Tolerates conditions that defeat most trees, including periodically wet ground.

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Peruvian Pepper Tree

Schinus molle

Weeping, fine-textured, and evergreen, with pink peppercorn clusters that hang all through autumn. Extremely drought tolerant and a genuinely elegant shade tree for a dry Lebanese garden.

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Weeping Fig

Ficus benjamina

The most familiar indoor tree in the world, with small glossy leaves on gracefully drooping branches. Outdoors in frost-free coastal positions it becomes a substantial shade tree.

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Flowering Shrubs

The colour layer of a garden. Hibiscus, bougainvillea, oleander, gardenia, and roses, most of them flowering from spring right through to autumn.

Chinese Hibiscus

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis

Enormous silk-textured flowers in reds, pinks, oranges, and yellows, each lasting only a day and replaced continuously from spring to autumn. The signature flowering shrub of warm coastal gardens.

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Paperflower

Bougainvillea glabra

The bougainvillea that covers walls and rooftops across the region, its colour coming not from flowers but from papery bracts that hold for months. Ruthlessly drought tolerant and genuinely spectacular at scale.

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Gardenia

Gardenia jasminoides

Grown entirely for the scent. Waxy white flowers against glossy dark evergreen leaves, strongest in the evening, which makes it the plant to put beside a door, a seating area, or an open window rather than at the back of a bed. Also sold as Cape Jasmine.

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Oleander

Nerium oleander

The hardest-working flowering shrub in the Mediterranean, flowering from late spring to autumn on almost no water, in almost any soil, including road verges and salt-blasted coastal sites. Every part of it is highly toxic.

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Cape Leadwort

Plumbago auriculata

Clear sky-blue flower clusters, a colour almost nothing else provides in summer heat, carried from spring right through autumn. Scrambles happily through other shrubs or over a low wall.

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Yellow Bells

Tecoma stans

Bright yellow trumpet flowers almost continuously through the warm months, on a fast-growing shrub that thrives in heat and reflected glare. A dependable choice for a hot, difficult corner.

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Bigleaf Hydrangea

Hydrangea macrophylla

Huge mophead flowers that fade slowly through the season, and the only common shrub whose colour you can change: acidic soil produces blue, alkaline soil produces pink. A mountain plant in Lebanon rather than a coastal one.

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Crimson Bottlebrush

Callistemon citrinus

The shrubby bottlebrush, denser and more compact than the weeping tree form, covered in vivid red brushes in spring and again intermittently through summer. Bees work it constantly.

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Japanese Camellia

Camellia japonica

Formal, almost artificial-looking flowers in the depths of winter, against glossy evergreen foliage that looks good in every other month. The classic shade shrub for a cool, sheltered courtyard.

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Garden Roses

Rosa spp.

Supplied across a wide range of colours and forms, from repeat-flowering shrub roses to climbers. Given sun, feeding, and honest pruning, roses flower here from spring until the first cold nights.

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Evergreen Shrubs

Structure, hedging, and green that never leaves. Pittosporum, myrtle, box, viburnum, and the water-wise Australians that have quietly become the backbone of Mediterranean planting.

Japanese Mock Orange

Pittosporum tobira

A dense, rounded evergreen with whorls of leathery leaves and creamy spring flowers that smell strongly of orange blossom. One of the most reliable structural shrubs for Mediterranean and coastal gardens.

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Buddhist Pine

Podocarpus macrophyllus

Not a true pine but a podocarpus, with narrow dark evergreen leaves on stiffly upright growth. Takes clipping better than almost any other evergreen, which makes it the go-to plant for tall narrow hedges and topiary.

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Japanese Spindle

Euonymus japonicus

Thick, glossy, almost plastic-looking evergreen leaves, often variegated in gold or cream. A workhorse hedging shrub that tolerates coastal exposure, pollution, and hard clipping without complaint.

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Common Myrtle

Myrtus communis

Native to Lebanon and woven through the region's history, with small aromatic leaves, white summer flowers, and blue-black berries. Clips beautifully and releases scent whenever brushed against.

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Natal Plum

Carissa macrocarpa

Glossy evergreen foliage, fragrant white star flowers through most of the year, and edible crimson fruit, all on a shrub armed with forked thorns that make it a genuinely effective security hedge.

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Hopbush

Dodonaea viscosa

Fast, upright, and extremely tough, grown as much for the papery pink seed capsules that follow the insignificant flowers as for the narrow evergreen foliage. Purple-leaved forms are particularly striking.

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Laurustinus

Viburnum tinus

Flowers through winter and early spring, opening white from tight pink buds when little else is in bloom, then setting metallic blue-black berries. A dependable evergreen backbone shrub.

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Common Box

Buxus sempervirens

The traditional plant of formal gardens: slow, dense, small-leaved, and capable of holding a crisp clipped edge for generations. Unmatched for low hedging, parterres, and topiary.

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Coastal Rosemary

Westringia fruticosa

Looks like rosemary and behaves better: fine grey-green foliage, white to pale lilac flowers for most of the year, and complete indifference to salt wind and drought. Excellent as a low informal hedge.

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Texas Sage

Leucophyllum frutescens

Silver-white woolly foliage that erupts into purple flowers after a rise in humidity, which is why it is nicknamed the barometer bush. Thrives in exactly the hot, dry, reflected-heat positions that kill other shrubs.

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Tree Germander

Teucrium fruticans

Silvery-white stems and small grey leaves, topped with pale blue flowers over an unusually long season. Mediterranean to its core, and one of the best silver-foliage shrubs for a dry Lebanese garden.

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Climbers

Climbing plants that turn a pergola, wall, or stair rail into shade and scent. Trained young so they take to their support quickly.

Climbing Wisteria

Wisteria sinensis

Two weeks a year, wisteria turns a pergola into the reason you built it. The rest of the season it is a generous, fast growing shade plant. Ours are grafted and already trained onto a cane, which is what separates a vine that flowers in three years from one that never quite does.

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Groundcovers

Low planting that closes gaps, holds banks, and keeps weeds down. Most of these will take heat and reflected glare that would finish a lawn.

Treasure Flower

Gazania rigens

Daisy flowers in fierce oranges, yellows, and reds that open with the sun and close again in the evening, over silver-backed foliage. Thrives in hot, poor, exposed ground where little else will flower.

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Lesser Periwinkle

Vinca minor

A dependable evergreen carpeting plant for dry shade, with glossy dark leaves and blue-violet flowers in spring. Roots as it trails, so it knits together quickly to suppress weeds under trees.

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Trailing Lantana

Lantana montevidensis

Almost permanently in flower through the warm months, in purple, lavender, or white, and completely unbothered by heat, drought, or poor soil. Spills beautifully over walls, banks, and the edges of raised beds.

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Turkey Tangle Frogfruit

Phyla nodiflora

A tough low mat of small leaves studded with tiny white and pink flowers, and one of the best genuine lawn alternatives available here. Takes light foot traffic and needs a fraction of the water a lawn does.

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Prostrate Rosemary

Rosmarinus officinalis 'Prostratus'

The creeping form of culinary rosemary, cascading over walls and terrace edges with the same aromatic needles and blue winter flowers. Useful, evergreen, drought-proof, and edible.

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Ornamental Grasses

Movement and late season colour. Grasses carry a planting scheme from midsummer into winter, when almost everything else has finished.

Mondo Grass

Ophiopogon japonicus

Not a true grass but a dense evergreen tuft that spreads slowly into an unbroken dark green carpet. The classic solution for shaded ground where lawn refuses to grow, and for planting between stepping stones.

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Lilyturf

Liriope muscari

Strap-like arching foliage topped with violet flower spikes in late summer, followed by black berries. Tougher and more sun tolerant than mondo grass, and excellent as a low edging along a path or drive.

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Purple Fountain Grass

Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum'

Burgundy foliage and soft purple plumes that catch low sun and move constantly in the slightest breeze. The most-planted ornamental grass in the region, and deservedly so.

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Chinese Silver Grass

Miscanthus sinensis

A large architectural grass forming a substantial arching clump, with silky plumes from late summer that dry to pale silver and stand right through winter. Superb backlit by low autumn sun.

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Pink Muhly Grass

Muhlenbergia capillaris

Unremarkable for most of the year, then in autumn it produces a cloud of airy pink-purple flower heads that seems to float above the foliage. Nothing else in the catalogue does anything comparable.

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Blue Fescue

Festuca glauca

Neat, compact hemispheres of intense steel-blue foliage, useful as a repeated accent in gravel planting or along the front of a bed. Small enough to work in a container or a narrow border.

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Pampas Grass

Cortaderia selloana

The largest grass here by a wide margin, throwing towering cream plumes from late summer that persist deep into winter. A dramatic screening plant that needs real space and honest handling.

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Spiny-head Mat Rush

Lomandra longifolia

An extremely tough evergreen strappy plant that looks like an ornamental grass and survives conditions that kill most of them. Handles drought, poor soil, shade, and foot traffic on a bank.

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Tasman Flax-lily

Dianella tasmanica

Arching blue-green strap foliage with sprays of small violet flowers followed by unusually intense blue-purple berries. Variegated forms are widely used to lighten shaded planting.

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Succulents & Cacti

Sculptural, drought-proof planting for terraces, gravel gardens, and anywhere irrigation does not reach. Agave, aloe, jade, yucca, and prickly pear.

Baby Sun Rose

Aptenia cordifolia

A fast, fleshy-leaved trailing succulent covered in small magenta-pink flowers through the warm months. Covers difficult dry ground quickly and spills attractively from raised beds and walls.

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Hottentot Fig

Carpobrotus edulis

Thick triangular succulent leaves forming a dense mat, with large yellow flowers fading to pink. Genuinely effective for binding sandy banks and coastal slopes where erosion is a problem.

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Foxtail Agave

Agave attenuata

The softest and most sculptural agave, forming large pale green rosettes with no terminal spine, which makes it safe beside a path. Mature plants send up a long arching flower spike like a fox's tail.

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Century Plant

Agave americana

A monumental blue-grey agave that becomes a dominant architectural feature, eventually throwing a flower spike several metres tall once in its life. Serious presence, and serious spines.

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Candelabra Aloe

Aloe arborescens

A large branching aloe that produces tall orange-red flower spikes in the middle of winter, when almost nothing else is in bloom and pollinators need it most. Forms a substantial shrubby clump.

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Jade Plant

Crassula ovata

Thick glossy oval leaves on a stout trunk that thickens into a miniature tree with age. Practically unkillable, long-lived, and equally at home on a windowsill or in a terrace pot.

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Prickly Pear

Opuntia ficus-indica

The sabbar of the Lebanese roadside, with flat paddle stems, yellow to orange flowers, and the sweet summer fruit sold from carts across the country. Utterly drought proof and historically used as a living field boundary.

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Beaked Yucca

Yucca rostrata

A near-perfect sphere of fine blue-grey leaves atop a slowly thickening trunk, ageing into one of the most elegant architectural plants available. Cold hardier than most yuccas, so it works at altitude.

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Zwartkop

Aeonium arboreum 'Zwartkop'

Rosettes so dark they read as black in full sun, held up on bare branching stems. An architectural plant that does the work of a sculpture in a courtyard or on a terrace, and asks for almost nothing in return.

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Indoor Plants

Foliage that tolerates real rooms rather than greenhouse conditions. Chosen for low light, dry winter air, and the weeks when nobody remembers to water.

Chinese Evergreen

Aglaonema commutatum

Patterned silver, cream, and green foliage on a compact plant that genuinely tolerates low light. One of the few really decorative houseplants that survives a north-facing room without sulking.

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Flamingo Flower

Anthurium andraeanum

Glossy heart-shaped leaves and lacquered red or pink spathes that hold for weeks and repeat almost year-round in good conditions. Reads as an expensive plant because it flowers when nothing else indoors does.

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Cast Iron Plant

Aspidistra elatior

Named for exactly the right reason. Deep green strap leaves that tolerate dark corners, irregular watering, cold hallways, and general neglect, surviving where every other plant has failed.

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Corn Plant

Dracaena fragrans

An upright cane topped with arching strappy leaves, often striped in yellow or lime. Architectural, forgiving, and one of the standard plants for filling a corner of a room or an office.

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Dragon Tree

Dracaena marginata

Slim grey stems topped with narrow arching leaves edged in red, growing into a sculptural multi-headed small tree over time. Takes up very little floor area for its height.

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Golden Pothos

Epipremnum aureum

The most forgiving trailing plant there is, with marbled gold and green heart-shaped leaves. Trails from a shelf, climbs a moss pole, or fills a hanging basket, and roots from a cutting in a glass of water.

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Rubber Plant

Ficus elastica

Large, thick, high-gloss leaves in deep green or burgundy on an upright stem that becomes a substantial indoor tree. A single well-grown specimen furnishes a room on its own.

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Fiddle-leaf Fig

Ficus lyrata

Huge violin-shaped leaves on an upright trunk, and the most photographed houseplant of the last decade. Striking when happy, and genuinely fussier than the rest of the ficus family.

Price on request

Swiss Cheese Plant

Monstera deliciosa

Enormous glossy leaves that split and perforate as the plant matures, climbing steadily upward given something to hold. The plant that turns a room into a jungle faster than anything else here.

Price on request

Peace Lily

Spathiphyllum wallisii

Dark glossy foliage and pure white spathes appearing on and off through the year, in light levels most flowering plants refuse. It also wilts dramatically and recovers within hours, which makes it forgiving of forgetful owners.

Price on request

Giant White Bird of Paradise

Strelitzia nicolai

Enormous paddle leaves on tall upright stems, reaching serious height indoors and producing dramatic white and blue flowers outdoors in frost-free positions. A statement plant in the truest sense.

Price on request

ZZ Plant

Zamioculcas zamiifolia

Thick waxy leaflets on upright stems, growing from underground rhizomes that store water. Survives deep shade and weeks of being forgotten entirely, which makes it the standard plant for offices and dark hallways.

Price on request

Ficus Bonsai

Ficus microcarpa

The most forgiving way into bonsai. Ficus microcarpa tolerates indoor conditions, irregular attention, and beginner pruning far better than a traditional juniper or pine, while still thickening its trunk and aerial roots into something that reads as a real tree in miniature. Supplied already shaped.

Price on request

Vegetables

Seedlings for the kitchen garden, including the Mount Lebanon tomato we grow from local seed. Planted out at the right moment, these crop all summer.

Radish

Raphanus sativus

The fastest crop in the vegetable garden and the one to hand children first, because something is ready to pull within a month. Sown in succession every two weeks, radishes fill the gaps between slower crops without ever competing with them.

Price on request

Mount Lebanon Tomato

Solanum lycopersicum

Grown from local mountain seed rather than a commercial hybrid, this is the tomato that tastes like the ones people remember. Thinner skinned and more fragrant than a supermarket variety, which is exactly why it never travels well and is worth growing at home.

Price on request

Cucumber

Cucumis sativus

Prolific to the point of comedy once it gets going. A few plants trained up a support will keep a household supplied all summer, and growing them vertically saves ground space while keeping the fruit straight and clean.

Price on request

Berries

Berry plants that fruit within a season or two. Compact enough for a balcony bed, generous enough to be worth the space.

Strawberry

Fragaria x ananassa

The best return on a small space in the whole garden. Strawberries crop in their first season, thrive in raised beds, troughs, and balcony pots, and send out runners you can root to make new plants for free.

Price on request

Blackberry

Rubus fruticosus

Vigorous, generous, and almost impossible to kill. Trained along a wire fence a blackberry doubles as a boundary hedge that happens to produce fruit by the bowlful in late summer. Thornless forms are available for beds near paths and seating.

Price on request

Lawn & Turf

Gazon turf and seed mixes blended for Lebanese summers. Supplied with the ground preparation and irrigation advice that decides whether a lawn lasts.

Gazon (Lawn Grass)

Lolium perenne mix

A hard wearing ryegrass blend put together for Lebanese summers rather than northern European ones. It knits quickly, takes foot traffic, and recovers from a hot dry spell faster than a fine ornamental lawn. Supplied as turf or seed depending on the area.

Price on request

HOW ORDERING WORKS

Three steps, no checkout

Choose your plants

Browse by category, open a plant to read its care notes, and pick the pot size you want.

Send the order on WhatsApp

Your basket becomes a message. Nothing is charged and no account is needed.

We confirm and deliver

We reply with availability, final price, and a delivery window for your area.

FREQUENTLY ASKED

Ordering plants from Kings Gardens

Add the plants you want to your basket, choose a pot size where one is offered, then press Send order on WhatsApp. Your basket is turned into a WhatsApp message addressed to our nursery. There is no online checkout, no account, and nothing is charged at that point. We reply to confirm availability, final price, and a delivery window.

Yes. We deliver across Mount Lebanon and Beirut as standard, and to the rest of Lebanon by arrangement depending on order size. Delivery is quoted with your order confirmation, since it depends on plant size, quantity, and how far the vehicle travels.

Nursery prices move with size, season, and availability, and a mature olive tree is not priced like a tray of radish seedlings. Where a price is not listed, we quote it when we confirm your order so you always see the real figure before committing.

They refer to pot size and plant maturity, not a fixed measurement across every species. For trees, Large is a semi-mature specimen that makes an immediate impact; Small is a young plant that establishes faster and costs less. We confirm exact pot size and plant height when we reply to your order.

Autumn, from October to early December, is the strongest planting window for trees, shrubs, and climbers, because roots establish through the wet months before summer heat arrives. Spring works well for vegetables, berries, and lawn. We will tell you if something you have ordered is better held back a few weeks.

Every plant page carries its own blooming, fruiting, and care notes, and those travel with your delivery. For larger orders we can plant on site, prepare the ground, and set up irrigation as part of our landscaping service. Ask when you send your order.

Payment is arranged directly with us once the order is confirmed, usually on delivery. The shop does not take card details and no payment information passes through this website.

Yes. The shop lists what we keep regularly, but we source a much wider range for landscape projects, including mature trees, palms, and specimen plants. Send us a message with what you are looking for and we will tell you what is possible and when.

Planting something larger?

If you are planning a full garden, an orchard, or a landscape project, we can design and install it rather than supply it plant by plant.

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