Jasmin and honeysuckle

grape vines, trained on a high horizontal trellis (I don't think I am explaining this correctly) to provide shade

bougainvilleas

citrus, pomegranate and olive trees

Basil (small leafed bushy basil used for rubbing your hands on, not for cooking)

Sunflowers (although difficult to fit in a garden)

Geraniums (especially red)

Laurel (as a hedge)

Hibiscus (I don't think that is really mediterranean but it fits well with the others, as does gardenia)

Of the above the ones I wouldn't do without are geraniums, citrus trees basil and bougainvilleas. Oh, and I'm sure I have forgotten many.

Katerina

PS: Agnes, the oleander you mentioned is a beautiful plant and definately mediterranean, but I remember those on the the street outside my house were completely covered (year after year after year) with what I know think was blackfly. It was so disgusting that it has put me off oleanders completely.
PS2: sorry I can't do the translation to french but my knowledge of french is very very limited.

Katerina

Just came over from the California forum and am very excited to see you all here. Now I will have to read all of the posts and see what is happening. What is a Mediterranean Garden? Just about every thing that grows in our Northern California garden!

We all share a very small part of the gardening world and perhaps we can share some seeds and plants. Is anyone here a member of the Mediterranean Garden Society?

My name is Shirley, but I use sps for my email name. Looking forward to making some new gardenweb friends on this forum.
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Ianna

I suppose the classic mediterranean landscape would feature only those plants native to the geographic Mediterranean basin, such as Olives, rosemary, lavenders, myrtle, phlomis and many of the others already mentioned. Certain non-native plants have insinuated themselves into the fabric to seem native, such as Bougainvillea and geraniums, and perhaps Jacaranda. My own idealized mediterranean landscape would include many more South African and Australian proteaceous plants such as Proteas, Leucadendrons, Leucospermums, Grevilleas, Isopogons, Banksias, and succulents from around the world, especially the Agaves, Echeverais and Sedums of Mexico. I also love gardening with new world species such as bromeliads,(Aechmeas, Billbergias, Neoregelias, Dyckias, Puyas, Vrieseas), and epiphytic cacti such as Rhipsalis, so many of which are perfectly adaptable to limited water gardens here in coastal California.`

A few plants I wouldn't be without include Protea 'Pink Ice', Grevillea 'Superb', Tabebuia chrysotricha, Chorisia speciosa, Otatea acuminata var aztectorum, Elegia capensis, Leucospermum cordifolium, Isopogon formosus, Senecio mandraliscae, Aeonium undulatum Echeveria imbricata and E. agavoides, and Achmea recurvata varieties.