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Design an Italian garden for making compost, don’t just make compost for your garden! Compost is still a rather taboo subject in Italian gardens – the sight and the smell of a standard compost lump is something that gardeners in Italy have yet to comprehend. In most countries gardeners have …
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When the type of soil has been established in your Italian garden you can begin considering which style your Italian garden should adopt. In recent years organic gardening has established itself as the intelligent solution for the modern garden across the world, as it provides a healthy green …
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Making the perfect English lawn in Italy For centuries the standard garden has been represented by the presence of a few trees, packed flower beds and a bright green lawn. With the onset of expensive irrigation systems, fertilizers and various chemical potions during the 1970’s the creation of a …
Italy is, essentially a very long piece of rock and the types of soil that can be found up and down the length and breadth of this rocky peninsula vary immensely. Soils range from friable acidic sand in the Dolomite mountains in the North, almost unworkable clay loams around Bologna and in Tuscany …
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Classic Italian gardens have stunned the world for centuries with their symmetry, elegance and sense of shape, form and scale. However the contemporary Italian garden now appears to display a rather confusing disregard for their Renaissance origins. Although created from aristocratic oppression and …
How to keep your balcony plants thriving through a long, hot Italian summer! Growing flowers, plants and herbs in containers on balconies and terraces and in small gardens in Italy can offer the exciting possibility of being able to enjoy plants that are typically Mediterranean, which for many UK …
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