What does Gardening in Italy Involve? How do Italians perceive gardening?, How do Italians design their gardens? or Is gardening important to the Italians?These are just a few of the questions that I am constantly asked as a garden designer, living here in Italy, by my contacts back home in …
Planning and Planting a Tuscan Style Garden
What is a Tuscan Style Garden? Italian gardens and the Italian style of gardeninghave become very popular in recent years, however, it is really the Tuscan style garden that has created the most interest amongst foreign homebuyers. A rustic harmony with nature, a mixture of Renaissance classicism …
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Plants for Italian Gardens – The Right Plant for an Italian Garden
What is the right plant for the Italian garden?What is the best type of plant for the Italian garden style?These are two questions that I am asked frequently asked as a garden designer here in Italy. The range of plants and garden styles in Italy is as rich and as varied as the assortment of …
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Contemporary Italian Gardens
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 …
Italian Garden Design – Topiary In Italian Gardens
Italian garden design has always adopted the use of art topiary to establish strong, evergreen structure in the Italian garden. From the origins of the Italian garden, Italian garden designers have shaped evergreen plants into both symmetrical, obtuse and representational forms to highlight …
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