A large property overlooking Lake Como

An initial intervention aimed at covering and screening the car park with a large bamboo hedge was followed by the creation of a large horseshoe-shaped flowerbed to accommodate a mixed border of perennial herbaceous plants and shrubs. The works then followed one another over the years both to expand the garden and to modify its management, as in the large spaces left as wild meadow, where the blooms increased from year to year.

The entrance driveway has been redone with gravel and bordered with large flowering hedges, the steepest slopes have been arranged with stone and dry stone walls, driveways and high hornbeam hedges.

From a vegetation point of view, large plantations have been added with collections of hostas, hydrangeas and viburnums. The most challenging intervention involved the creation of a large rose garden, designed like a labyrinth, where the avenues and flowerbeds meeting at right angles form a path that leads to the center, where an old plum tree already stood. A collection of over 200 roses, including climbers and large bushes, which includes plants from different groups: modern English and tea hybrids obtained in Italy, ancient bourbon and portland, floribunda and also many varieties of gallica and moschata.