The guests have the possibility to relax, have breakfast or read a book in the shadow of the Olea Fragrance.
As it happened for the house, the garden has grown and continues to grow with me. Over the years it has changed shape, appearance, So as it has changed its "protagonists". It combines tradition, with the plants I found in situ, and experimentation exactly like a living garden should be. Upon my arrival I inherited from my aunt Maddalena - the countess - the pink hydrangeas which is now about 40 years old. I love hydrangeas and for this same reason I have increased their presence with a quercifolia, now over three meters high. During the year its white conical inflorescences and multiple sepals pass through a series of colors ranging from light green in Spring, to white and pale pink to finally become of an intense purple and brown. Thus the lobed and leathery leaf turns from a bright green in Spring to a beautiful dark red. I added a climbing hydrangea from Japan, with a meaty leaf and long vines climbing up the brick wall. It has oval dentate edges leaves which in Autumn, before falling, enchant with a magnificent golden yellow hue. The flowers are white, almost ephemeral. To remember my aunts I kept as well their roses, old and scented. The most impressive one is a climbing Mermaid. Its nickname is "fried eggs" due to the color of its flowers: a light straw yellow color. Its flowering is amazingly abundant from May to Autumn. The far back of the garden, is dominated by two pieces de resistance. A Spanish pomegranate tree. I love to use its sweet fruits to make fruit extracts to serve to my guests for breakfast. And an Olea Fragrans, also inherited from my aunts. I love the shape of this plant, naturally rounded with large oval dark green leaves and tiny off-white flowers whose scent spreads all over the garden and even inside the house. And furthermore a purple Iris, a white Japanese windflowers, a pink Hibiscus with flowers the size of my face. All white hellebores bloom in Winter together with snowdrops.
