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# 77 MARCH 21 , 2016
The owner, a great lover
of antiques and bricolage,
over time has enriched
his garden with fine furnishings such as a fountain
in neoclassical style in the
early twentieth century
where water lilies grow
and a XVIII century stone
well recovered during the
restoration of an old house. Flint was chosen for the
flooring of wide paths, an
ancient stone very common in the streets of the
city, and to make it more
interesting it was embellished with grass inlays
in the form of geometric
figures. Nearby you can
go hiking in the woods of
beech trees of Cornino,
the Paradise Valley on the
Gran Sasso massif and the
forests of Mount Sirente.
Plants
Inside the garden you can
admire 1500 roses of 150
different varieties, a thousand herbaceous perennials, about 60 varieties
of Clematis, 20 Oriental
poppies (Papaver orientale) and hydrangea (Hydrangea spp). The wooded area is established
with the aim of having
winter all year round with
foliage of different colors; this is how the tree
collection was born, ranging from the gray of the
silver fir (Picea pungens
var. glauca kosteriana) to
the yellow of the Maple
negundo var. odessanum
and Acacia frize; from the
dark brown of the beech
(Fagus sylvatica var. purpurea pendula) to the green with yellow spots of the
libocedro (Libocedrus decurrens); from the bright
green and the red coral
of some Maple palmatum
var. dissectum to the purple-pink-red of the tricolor
beech (Fagus sylvatica var.
tricolor).
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