With a brief to create a garden in the Italian countryside in tune with its surroundings, the designer Stuart Barfoot combined subtle landscaping with romantic plantings in a wildlife-rich scheme that captivates the senses.
Experience the charm and elegance of an Italian garden with these top Italian Garden Ideas for creating a serene oasis in your yard.
With a brief to create a garden in the Italian countryside in tune with its surroundings, the designer Stuart Barfoot combined subtle landscaping with romantic plantings in a wildlife-rich scheme that captivates the senses.
Hazy lavender, silvery foliage, aromatic herbs – these are the first plants to spring to mind when I think about a Mediterranean garden. But it’s not just the right selection of plants that will conjure up that holiday feeling. It’s the whole caboodle – the laid-back, make the most of....
A list of Italian garden features, with tips and ideas for creating a more Italian garden style into your outdoor space at home..
Once a monastery and now a sublime family retreat, a grandee’s 16th-century country home in Toledo, Spain, remains an object of devotion
Italian Garden History – From The Renaissance to the 20th Century. Gordon Campbell on the development of Italian gardens through the years.
With a brief to create a garden in the Italian countryside in tune with its surroundings, the designer Stuart Barfoot combined subtle landscaping with romantic plantings in a wildlife-rich scheme that captivates the senses.
... the condition of the paintwork and siding, the roof, the driveway, the front door, and even the mailbox and house number. First impressions last.
classic design with a sprinkle of modern
Hidden from the street behind a shou sugi ban gate in San Francisco's Mission district, a small L-shaped front garden is pared down to the essentials. For
Twenty years in the making, Italian writer Umberto Pasti's Moroccan hillside garden combines spectacular views with a carefully cultivated mass of indigenous plants he has saved from extinction.
In an extract from her new book, 'Gardens in my Life', legendary garden designer Arabella Lennox-Boyd tells the story of her family home and garden at the Palazzo Parisi in Oliveto, Lazio.
Garden editor Clare Foster outlines the trends in the world of garden design and gardening this year
For more than 20 years, garden designer Dan Pearson has overseen the evolution of the garden at Torrecchia Vecchia near Rome from neglected wilderness to romantic paradise
A mother-and-daughter design duo has taken an unconventional approach to the conversion of a sixteenth-century convent in Tuscany, filling the rooms with objects and artworks of their own making.
Transforming the walled garden courtyard area of my home into a Mediterranean inspired, romantic space to eat al fresco.. See all the images and my design ideas that turned my tiny courtyard into an Italian-influenced, inviting space.
For half a century, Italy’s elite and tastemakers the world over have turned to Paolo Pejrone to create happy, harmonious gardens. Today the 76-year-old landscape designer shows no sign of slowing down
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California flora meets Mediterranean flair in Marc Appleton and Joanna Kerns’s beloved half-acre plot
Petworth is known for its Capability Brown parkland, open to the public, but in the private gardens, Caroline Egremont has created an exquisite and intimate sanctuary within a series of garden rooms.
The plants at your borders are the most visible part of the garden, Choose plants that attract attention by considering size, color, shape, texture and season of bloom.
We didn't know we needed quietly stylish workwear and Italian garden clogs in our lives until Alan Calpe and Christopher Crawford's Gardenheir came along.
With a brief to create a garden in the Italian countryside in tune with its surroundings, the designer Stuart Barfoot combined subtle landscaping with romantic plantings in a wildlife-rich scheme that captivates the senses.
Take a private tour of a baroque Italian garden in Florence, Italy. Villa La Pietra, home of NYU abroad, is open for pre-arranged garden tours.
Giardini Hanbury, along the Mediterranean. On a sunny winter day.
With a brief to create a garden in the Italian countryside in tune with its surroundings, the designer Stuart Barfoot combined subtle landscaping with romantic plantings in a wildlife-rich scheme that captivates the senses.
Francois Catroux courtyard in Laurmarine, France. The Provencal garden has ancient fortified stone walls with shutters on the windows, the floor is in gravel and the green throughout is planted in terracotta pots. Characteristics of Provencal Gardens European Country or Provencal gardens are informal with a more laid-back atmosphere. When more European formal gardens are …
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In his native Italy, garden designer Luciano Giubbilei has created a verdant oasis that grows under the Tuscan sun.
The Italian garden also has such an amazing way of using space, creating "little rooms" to display or highlight certain plants or elements of visual interest.
See our tips on How to Create an Italian Kitchen Garden at home and enjoy a bounty of fresh fruit, vegetables and herbs all year around.
Garinish Island -- Ilnacullin
If you are fortunate enough to have a terrace, a porch or some outdoor space, spending a lot of time at home can be a much nicer experience. But how you design that space makes all the difference. “A lot of times, you’ll see a beautiful garden with very organized furniture, which looks pretty, but
Take a private tour of a baroque Italian garden in Florence, Italy. Villa La Pietra, home of NYU abroad, is open for pre-arranged garden tours.
If you're looking to add a little slice of la dolce vita to your outdoor space, then check out these awesome Italian style garden ideas. From sun-soaked
