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 has members in thirty-eight countries throughout the world and Branches of the society have been formed in many areas to organise meetings and activities locally. 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. The MGS Forum is a place for discussing mediterranean plants, cultivated and wild, as well as every aspect of gardens and gardening in a mediterranean climate. MGS members may also join in the Seed Exchange. The previous version of the MGS website has been archived and can viewed in non-responsive format.

 

The MGS is a non-profit-making association founded in Greece in 1994. The aims of the MGS are broad so as to cover the wide range of mediterranean plant and gardening interests of its members.

 

The Mediterranean Garden Society is founded in Greece with members in 38 countries. English is the working language of the Society but we also operate websites in four other languages- French, Greek, Italian, and Spanish. Our websites are a unique, one-stop source of all information and dialogue relating to mediterranean-climate gardening.

 

The Society publishes a quarterly journal available in paper or electronic format which includes articles written by members from all over the world as well as the beautiful line drawings that make the journal so distinctive.

 

We organise two to three international garden tours a year for members, often with a special topic in mind such as wild flowers or to explore a far-flung part of the world.

 

Local branches in several countries plan their own activities ranging from lectures and demonstrations to garden visits and expeditions to areas of floral interest. Facebook encourages interaction between our members both locally and across the world and many Branches have their own pages as well as branch websites.

 

The society runs Sparoza, an experimental garden outside Athens. It is an important example of one of the earliest private waterwise mediterranean gardens to be created and has one of the most significant collections of mediterranean plants in Greece.

 

The society is organised entirely on a volunteer basis both at the central and at the branch levels