The garden

The garden of angels is maybe the first example of green accomplishment where the most important aspect is the emotions; the choice and the planting of the plants were not a priority.

It isn't a botanical garden and not even a private park closed and protected where the admission fees are required: it is a public garden and particular attention had to be paid to making the right choices to this kind of green, avoiding plants that are too delicate to grow or needing too much attention to take care of.

In any case, the visitor can see, closed in a confined space, pleasurable settings created by using fairly common scents limited in commercial value or even the use of nursery discards.

Perhaps in some cases, one has gone beyond the quality standards that characterize so many Italian public gardens, betting on the tenacity of the volunteers and on the sensibility and civility of the visitors.

It will be possible to admire wonderful bulbs and rhizomes such as irises, hermerocallis, crocuses, tulips or narcissus. Also worthy of mentioning are camellias, spiraee, phyladelphus, ceanothus, cistus, gaurea buddleia, thulbaghie, ands so many types of roses. What can one say about the olive hill natural lawn?

One can smell the scents of the osmanthus, viburnum, helicrism and various aromatic plants, or calicanthus.

In the countryside it is possible to observe, a few minutes from the center, the growth of agrarian cultivations according to the rotations and the natural cycle of cultivation.

Aquatic plants, vegetables, fruit and ornamental trees, annuals and perennials, various kinds of shrubs, complete a somewhat assorted botanical endowment (destined to augment as time goes by), that allows people to observe a good number of varieties in a confined amount of space.

Besides the botanical aspects, there are numerous curiosities that confirm the deepness of emotions that are at the source of this location:

The writing "The Garden of Angels" on the notice board at the entrance was written by...Sara. The words were taken from Her elementary school exercise books and, thanks to modern technology, transferred to the notice board;

The well, made of old stone is a faithful copy of Her grandparents;

The countryside gate is that of the old entrance to the former butcher's in Marconi Road found in very bad condition and timely restored, adorned e brought back to new life;

The sleeping willows positioned in the heart of the garden, are Sara's favorite trees...the idea of the realization of the garden was born thanks to this remembrance;

The mountain setting is inspired by Sara's last trekking and last vacation in Her beloved Val di Fassa: the "passo delle scalette" railway path, the Antermoia shelter, the lake of the same name in a wonderful moonlight landscape, the form of grande sasso is very much reminiscent of the peak of the Catinaccio, the dominating element of the tour.