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30 Amazing Mediterranean Living Design

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Depending on your home layout, your Mediterranean living room can serve many different functions. If you have a family room, it is often a formal sitting area or parlor used for reading, relaxing and entertaining guests, friends and close relatives. You must have a unified design with the rest of the Mediterranean inspired rooms.

A perfectly designed Mediterranean living room must have the important detail that this place must have, and it is the fireplace. A perfect Mediterranean look you should go with marbleized wood table and ottomans in the center of the room. Here we have 30 Amazing Mediterranean Living Design Ideas for you. Enjoy!

Mediterranean Living Design Ideas

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Classic Mediterranean Garden

Description

The Classic Mediterranean Garden style is centered around the olive tree. Native to the Mediterranean region of Europe, the olive tree is widely known around the world for its fruit, oil and ornamental landscape uses. These qualities have been long recognized throughout the Inland Empire where it has been has been a popular crop and garden tree for well over 100 years. Many mature trees can be seen in local landscapes that provide sculptural character and accent interest.

The Classic Mediterranean Garden style offers many planting choices. The plants listed below include plants native to California and the Mediterranean region, as well as many cacti and succulents that can be designed into creative combinations of foliage and flower color, texture and form. Fruitless cultivars of the olive tree are among the most popular choices in recent years when pollen and fruit is unwanted.

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We are so fortunate to be able to live in an area where we can grow the beautiful plants found in a Mediterranean climate. Whether you are trying to recreate the feeling you had when visiting Spain, Italy or Greece or you just simply love the look and feel a Mediterranean climate provides, creating that happy place is possible in our California landscapes.

9 Of Our Favorite Plants, Perfect For Your Mediterranean Climate

1. Kangaroo Paws

Anigozanthos flavidus - A tough and durable perennial with strap-like leaves and tall flower stalks. Kangaroo Paws have unusual velvety, paw-shaped flowers available in an assortment of colors (red, pink, yellow). They make great container plants and interesting cut flowers.

Moderate growing; reaches 2 to 5 ft. tall, 2 to 3 ft. wide.

Excellent in Containers, Mass Planting and in Rock Garden

This plant loves full sun

Care - Provide average well drained soil. Drought tolerant once established, but prefers regular moisture when flowering. Pruning time: fall after flowering.

2. Salvia/Sage

Salvia plants are extremely versatile, hardy, and attractive to bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. They are also available in many varieties. We have 3 of our favorites to share with you.

VIBE® Ignition Purple Salvia

Salvia x jamensis - is notably heat and drought tolerant, this petite sage explodes with dark purple buds that open to vibrant purple flowers throughout summer. Vibe® Ignition Purple from Monrovia is one of the most humidity tolerant varieties of its type. Add to summer garden borders, wildlife or cutting gardens, or feature in containers.

Salvia x jamensis - is notably heat and drought tolerant, this petite sage explodes with dark purple buds that open to vibrant purple flowers throughout summer. Vibe® Ignition Purple from Monrovia is one of the most humidity tolerant varieties of its type. Add to summer garden borders, wildlife or cutting gardens, or feature in containers. Heatwave™ Blast Sage

Perfect for water-wise gardens! This carefree, shrubby perennial blooms all summer, attracting hummingbirds and butterflies with masses of vibrant salmon pink flowers and aromatic green foliage. Simply thrives in heat and drought when established. This variety from Monrovia is a fantastic selection for borders, mass plantings or large patio containers. Evergreen.

Perfect for water-wise gardens! This carefree, shrubby perennial blooms all summer, attracting hummingbirds and butterflies with masses of vibrant salmon pink flowers and aromatic green foliage. Simply thrives in heat and drought when established. This variety from Monrovia is a fantastic selection for borders, mass plantings or large patio containers. Evergreen. Mexican Bush Sage

Salvia leucantha is a favorite among many with because its blooms are showy velvety spikes that appear late summer through frost while other summer plants are petering out. Easy to grow and extremely drought tolerant once established.

3. Rosemary

Rosemary offers the texture and aroma only an herb can provide. It looks great in containers and beds.And if that isn't enough, this simply irresistible dark green plant also produces lovely purple blooms.

4. Lantana

Lantanas offer a profusion of bright color year round from masses of blooms that are available one or multiple colors. Beautiful mounded, trailing form makes a great display in low borders, containers, or featured as a accent in topiary form. With support, provides an exceptionally showy cover for low fences and walls.

Natural form is 2 to 3 feet tall, 6 to 8 feet wide.

Perfect for borders, container as trailers, or poolside or near water feature.

Thrives in Full Sun

Care - Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. As a groundcover, space plants 5 ft. apart, (closer for faster coverage). Control weeds with mulch until the plants cover the area. Pruning time: spring.

5. Succulents

Succulents come in so many shapes, sizes and colors to add interest and texture to containers, borders and rock gardens. These sun-loving plants require very little effort to maintain. For a list of 12 easy to grow succulents...

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6. Lomandra

A tough, easy-care, grass-like plant for mass plantings, dry borders and containers. A wonderful, versatile, drought and salt spray tolerant alternative to liriope and low-growing shrubs.

7. Loropetalum

Razzleberri® - An exciting plant with vibrant, multi-season interest! Clusters of raspberry red, fringed flowers appear throughout the year. Showy new growth is burgundy tinged, maturing to olive green. Use as a colorful specimen or accent in borders and containers.

Sizzling Pink Fringe Flower - Clusters of rich, pink, fringed flowers bloom repeatedly throughout the year. The showy new deep burgundy foliage matures to a lovely bronze-green, maintaining a purple tinge as it as it ages, creating a colorful year-round accent to the landscape. Works well for containers, borders, and foundation plantings, as a single specimen or in groupings.

8. Figs

The variety shown is a Brown Turkey Fig but other varieties available. This one is an attractive deciduous tree with an intriguing winter silhouette. Produces very tasty, brownish purple fruit in late spring and again in late summer. Highly adaptable, and often root hardy. A beautiful specimen for garden or landscape, requiring only light annual pruning.