COLLECTION · MEDITERRANEAN

Mediterranean Plants

The palette this coastline has grown for centuries. Silver leaves, aromatic foliage, and a tolerance for stony alkaline soil that most imported ornamentals simply do not have.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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