USDA zones 8–10
Mediterranean garden ideas
The Mediterranean gravel garden is loose and aromatic: mounds of lavender, rosemary, santolina and cistus in silver and grey-green, a few multi-trunk olives for dappled shade, and pale crushed stone running right through the planting. No lawn, no clipped geometry, terracotta pots and a low dry-stacked wall.
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How to get the look
- 1Replace the lawn with pale gravel and plant straight into it, so the stone is the ground plane everywhere.
- 2Mix silver and grey foliage with a few blues. The colour is in the leaves, not the flowers.
- 3Add one olive or a similar small silver-leaved tree, multi-trunked, for shade and shape.
Up close
Three details from the same render.
Plants that build the look
From our library of real plants, each rated for the zones this style suits. Every card opens the plant's page with its zones, sun, water and sources.
California Flannel Bush
Fremontodendron californicum
Showy flowersZone 8-10Full sunLow water
Care details Real before and afters
From the gallery, made with the same engine.
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