| "The ecological Italian garden" sounds almost like a | | | | garden in Italy over the centuries and has resulted in |
| contradiction in terms, when we think of the formal | | | | the Italian garden style that we know today. |
| Italian gardens of the glorious Renaissance period in | | | | During the 13 years that I have been living and |
| Italy- with their neatly clipped hedges, elaborate | | | | working as a garden designer in Italy I have patented |
| water features and rose gardens etc. | | | | a garden design system, named ecologica that is |
| However, in reality, the Italian's link with their land is | | | | based upon the antique agricultural practises that |
| far more intimate and their love for the finest of | | | | have shaped this land yet provides for the needs of |
| food has driven the Italians to search for culinary | | | | the modern home buyer in Italy, like having masses |
| perfection over the centuries. From shoes to | | | | of organic vegetables and fruit. When combined with |
| tomatoes and from aromatic herbs to natural | | | | intelligent planting, wild flower meadows teeming with |
| medicine everything in Italy is of the highest quality | | | | poppies and natural remedies (herbal teas) can |
| and organic produce is clearly of superior quality to | | | | provide a spectacle second to none. Formal, organic |
| the produce that is currently being mass produced. | | | | vegetable gardens can become the main attraction, |
| Italian gardeners and chefs have understood this for | | | | when combined with classic roses and other flowering |
| centuries and have always strived to create a | | | | plants. All of the beautiful features within a modern |
| harmony in their gardens to provide the very best | | | | Italian garden can have an intrinsic link with each |
| quality produce from livestock to vegetables and | | | | other. I can achieve all this completely organically, |
| from lemons to truffles. They have not only used | | | | ecologically without using imported wildflower seed |
| their land for food production but also to produce | | | | and without water! By living a little closer to nature |
| fine natural medicines and even to this day Italian wild | | | | we can return to the origins of the Italian garden as |
| flowers, used in natural remedies, are still considered | | | | there really is nothing more modern than the past... |
| to be of superior quality. This intrinsic link has shaped | | | | HAPPY GARDENING! |