This document discusses several plants that are typical of Mediterranean vegetation and can grow with little water. It describes the characteristics and habitats of thyme, sage, olive trees, bay laurel, and rosemary. Students are shown planting and caring for some of these Mediterranean plants, including cleaning the soil, preparing soil beds, and transplanting olive trees, bay laurel and rosemary bushes.

2. Value Education & Ecological Responsibility Comenius School Partnership Project (2008-2010) Abbiamo scelto le piante tipiche della nostra regione e della maccha mediterranea Alcune ad alto fusto, altre a basso fuste , alcune piante aromatiche tipiche We have chosen the typical plants of our region and of mediterranean scrub. Some tall trees some short ,some aromatic ones.

3. Thymus Its scientific name derives from the greek strength, courage, that awakens in those who smell the scent of balsamic Habitat Spontaneous in West-Mediterranean, can go up to considerable heights Identification Its leaves are little and long with a colour ranging from a green more or less dark, to grey or silver.They have a peculiar smell. TIMO Value Education & Ecological Responsibility Comenius School Partnership Project (2008-2010) Some students are cleaning the soil from the weeds.

5. Olea europae It is thought native to Southern Cucasic areas though many consider it a tree peculiarly Mediterranean. Habitat This tree has set very well in the Mediterranean : in this range there are Italy,the South of Spain and France,Greece and some Middle Eastern countries bordering the Eastern Mediterranean Identification LThe cultivated Olive tree belongs to the large ‘oleacee ‘ family‘ and in it there are about 30 different kinds.olivo. The stem is cylindrical and twisted with bark gray or dark gray , its wood is very hard and heavy.It is an evergreen tree, W hose activity is almost continuous. The leaves are leathery, simple, entire, elliptic-lanceolate, The fruit is a drupe globose, ellipsoidal or ovoid OLIVO Marco is planting an Olive tree, we know that this plants are typical of our slopes. Value Education & Ecological Responsibility Comenius School Partnership Project (2008-2010)