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Landscaping a villa garden: ten ideas that last

From structure to details, the principles we apply on our sites from Bouskoura to the Palmeraie.

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Published on July 14, 2026

White cubic Mediterranean villa with a stone pine and lawn

A beautiful villa garden is not a collection of plants: it is a sequence of connected spaces, designed first for use — hosting, swimming, eating outside, retreating — then planted to last. Here are the ten principles we apply, from the most structural to the finest.

Structure

  • Draw solids and voids first: terraces, usable lawn, paths. Planting fills what remains.
  • One feature tree per garden room, no more: ancient olive, date palm, carob or jacaranda.
  • Evergreen hedges for boundaries (cypress, bay, pittosporum): they hold through winter and frame the view.

Plants mentioned here

Young standard olive tree in a terracotta pot on a wooden stool against a sunlit pale wall
BestsellerHeat-resistant

Olive tree

Olea europaea

From390 DH· 100 cmAvailable
Grove of date palms with even trunks and red date bunches under a clear sky
Limited editionHeat-resistant

Date palm

Phoenix dactylifera

From1,900 DH· 150 cmAvailable
Tapering tips of Italian cypresses standing out against a clear, even sky
BestsellerHeat-resistant

Italian cypress

Cupressus sempervirens 'Stricta'

From590 DH· 150 cmAvailable

Water and soil

  • Reduce lawn to what you actually use; the rest in pale gravel, ground covers and beds.
  • Buried drip irrigation and a timer from day one; it is the garden's most profitable investment.
  • Group plants by water need: Mediterranean together, tropical together, never mixed on the same irrigation line.

Pool and terrace

  • Around the pool, only evergreen plants with well-behaved roots: palms, cycads, agaves, Strelitzia reginae.
  • On the terrace, large planters rather than many small pots: more coolness, less watering.

Plants mentioned here

Avenue lined with tall Washingtonia palms, trunks skirted with dry fronds, in warm light
BestsellerHeat-resistant

Mexican fan palm

Washingtonia robusta

From1,290 DH· 150 cmAvailable
Cycas revoluta with a short trunk and a crown of dark green fronds, in a garden
RareLimited edition

Sago palm

Cycas revoluta

From890 DH· 50 cmAvailable

Details

  • Fragrance at thresholds: jasmine by the door, rosemary along the steps, bitter orange under the bedroom window.
  • Low, warm lighting on three or four specimens only; the rest in shadow.
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