The Mediterranean Garden Society (MGS) acts as a focus for everyone who has a special interest in the plants and gardens of mediterranean-climate regions. The MGS is a non-profit-making association founded in Greece in 1994 and now has members throughout the world. Branches of the society organise meetings and activities locally. The MGS is a place for discussing mediterranean plants, cultivated and wild, as well as every aspect of gardens and gardening in a mediterranean climate. The society publishes a quarterly journal The Mediterranean Garden with articles contributed by its members. The garden at Sparoza, just outside Athens, is managed by the society to demonstrate gardening that is in sympathy with the natural surroundings and our philosophy of waterwise gardening. MGS members may also join in the Seed Exchange.

The MGS Administrative Committee 2025-28 has been elected with Caroline Davies as President. Details here.

The photos at the top of this page show spring blooms at Sparoza garden: Fritillaria raddeana, Bartlettina sordida, Euphorbia dendroides, Globularia alypum, Thapsia garganica, Fritillaria obliqua, Prunus dulcis, Freesia viridis, Ferraria crispa (Photos Lucinda Willan)

What's On

All MGS members are welcome to attend events held by any branch, annual meet-up, AGM, General Assembly, excursion or Zoom talk wherever they may be. Here is our current programme of forthcoming events around the world.

In Bloom Now

With nearly 1,000 different plants in the collection, you can always find something in bloom in the MGS garden at Sparoza. Lucinda Willan, Head Gardener at Sparoza, shares her favourite plants as they come into flower throughout the year.

Join the MGS Now

The Mediterranean Garden Society welcomes everyone interested in the plants and gardens of mediterranean-climate areas. Members receive quarterly journal The Mediterranean Garden, join a branch and the Seed Exchange.

Sparoza Bulbs

Head Gardener Lucie Willan has complied this collection of bulbs that bloom in the MGS garden at Sparoza by month throughout the year. For Lucie, bulbs are the shooting stars of the plant world, often fleeting but completely magical.

Seed List - January 2025

MGS Seed Exchange has nearly 500 varieties available to Members. Chantal Guiraud thanks the generous donors who added 122 new species to the list. They come from Australia, Belgium, Costa Rica, France, Greece, Malta, Spain and USA.

Botanical Painting

Anthographia - Botanical Painting Exhibition. From Theophrastus until today. Supported by MGS and held at the Museum of Natural History Goulandris in Athens. Features drawings published in the MGS Journal in the past 30 years.

Andalucia Branch Event

A visit to Jardín Botánico-Histórico La Concepción to see the wisteria avenue in bloom. One of the most beautiful iron pergolas to be found in Spain, with Wisteria sinensis originally planted by the Loring-Heredia family in 1857.

MGS in the News

Charles Quest Ritson writes about Sparoza Garden in January's Country Life magazine. “There is nothing to match the MGS’s garden at Sparoza anywhere in the world. How I wish more people knew about Sparoza.”

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