Crisp and inviting, Mediterranean gardens are mesmerising landscape designs, filled with alfresco dining areas and refreshing planting schemes.
Allowing you to transport the relaxing essence of Mediterranean living into your very own home, Mediterranean garden designs are popular due to their al fresco qualities and dreamy compositions. Welcoming family and friends in to your home to enjoy your outdoor spaces throughout the seasons, Mediterranean gardens are beautiful yet extremely functional landscapes. Designed to include a series of striking outdoor living features such as pergolas, expansive terraces and shaded seating areas, let’s explore how our award-winning garden designers could transform your garden into a mesmerising Mediterranean landscape.
Outdoor living
With Mediterranean gardens designed to withstand hot and sunny weather conditions, this style of garden therefore contains a collection of shaded and secluded seating areas. For a rustic Mediterranean look, our skilled landscaping team establish pergolas within our designs to create beautiful seating areas that can be used and enjoyed all year round.
Turning your garden into the ultimate landscape for alfresco dining, outdoor kitchens are a Mediterranean garden essential. Crafted from a blend of natural stone and patterned tiles, outdoor kitchens are the perfect places for catching up with loved ones whilst you indulge in a variety of scrumptious homemade meals.
Transforming your garden into an idyllic social hub, embedding an expansive terrace into your design is a fantastic way to transport Mediterranean living into your garden. The perfect area to host summer garden parties or to create a glorious seating space, a large paving area constructed from beautiful natural paving stones is a timeless feature to embed within your garden.
Our landscaping team traditionally use limestone and sandstone pavers for our Mediterranean style gardens, as these paving slabs add a light and bright palette that lifts your design throughout every season.
Traditional planting recipes
Drought-tolerant plants are the main choice for Mediterranean designs as they are they are the best varieties for dealing with hot climates and long periods of dry weather. High in sensory value, plants such as lavender, agapanthus and rosemary take centre stage. Diffusing drifts of calming fragrance throughout the garden, Mediterranean planting schemes contain vibrant and repeated patterns to create a heavenly garden scene.
Enhancing tranquility throughout your garden, ornamental grasses are another popular planting choice in Mediterranean design. Blending beautifully with surroundings shrubs and blooms, these grasses are a fabulous way to add movement into your garden scene.
Accompanying honey-toned paving beautifully, dotting a series of terracotta pots throughout your landscape is a wonderful way to add an extra essence of Mediterranean style to your design. Adding gentle structure to your landscape, olive trees are a beautiful choice to plant within your pots. Fabulous for framing a series of elegant entrances or for enhancing a cosy seating area, olive trees make a beautiful addition to any Mediterranean style garden.
Sensory value
To create the most relaxing and tranquil garden retreat, our landscaping team adore integrating a series of flowing water features into our Mediterranean designs. Enhancing your garden with a combination of both structure and movement, fountains are charming garden features that create an idyllic and relaxing garden ambience.
Sculpting a network of garden routes throughout your garden landscape, gravel chip pathways are another easy yet effective way to enhance the sensory value of your garden. Popular hard-landscaping features in Mediterranean garden designs, these pathways echo a beautiful sound when walked over and again lift your garden with a wonderfully light colour scheme.
Transport a touch of the Mediterranean to your home with help from our specialist garden designers. Talk to us today to find out more!
