Upon receiving my scholarship I chose a few key stops to incorporate in to my Italian travel experience.
The Botanical Garden is the most precious garden in Lucca and extends for two acres in the southeast corner of the old town. Founded in 1820 by Maria Luisa of Bourbon, Duchess of Lucca, it is a scientific institution that preserves living collections of plants in a path of colours, sounds and smells that brings you around the world, illustrating both specimens from distant countries and treasures of the local flora and biodiversity.
" Created in 1545 on the property of the Benedictine monks of St. Justina, Padua Botanical Garden is the oldest existing university botanical garden in the world."
One day visit to the Library of Trees in Milan, BAM, with landscaping by Piet Oudolf and the Vertical Gardens of Stefano Boeri.
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I attended a guided tour of the Botanical Gardens of Lucca in Tuscany, Italy
" Murabilia, a quality gardening market exhibition, is one of the most important Italian events dedicated to flowers , plants and gardening . It takes place in the unique setting of the Walls of Lucca on the bastions of San Regolo, La Libertà and in the Botanical Garden . More than 200 exhibitors will be present, mostly nurserymen with an offer that ranges across all sectors of the plant world with particular or newly introduced plants, ancient and new cultivars, equipment and furnishings. A rich cultural, botanical and horticultural program, with thematic exhibitions, conferences, editorial news, workshops open to all entertains the visitor in an unforgettable day."
While visiting Emilia Romagna and working on the didactic farm I spent a day visiting the Botanical Gardens of Padua a half an hour away from Ferrara and the Este Gardens were I was based.
I spent the day touring the Library of Trees, Biblioteca dei Alberi Milano, BAM, by Inside Ouside,Petra Blaisse with a bio dynamic fish ponds, landscaping by Piet Oudolf and the two residences of Stefano Boeri's Vertical Forest
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