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… ...

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.

We just updated the garden to match.” PHOTO GALLERY: Scott Daigre’s Mediterranean garden design Daigre’s first move was to widen the aging entry staircase and pave it with new flagstone.

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.

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 ...

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Your Garden Made Perfect viewers are left unimpressed by couple's £36,000 'Mediterranean' makeover that saw £6,000 spent on GRAVEL Viewers were not impressed with final results of garden ...