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This is the story of my garden in lido of venice, 10 minutes by foot from the adriatic sea.

I started to plan it in winter 2003/2004 inspired by a friend, even if this passion was sleeping since I grew tomatoes in my first vegetable patch in 1973. Before  I put my hands on it there were (as you’ll see from my future posts) three patches of suffering grass, some conifers, a wild cherry tree my age, two cachis, some indigenous palms, some tired polyhanta roses, many vigorous oleanders lanted by my mother, a chymonantus precox planted by my uncle and other plants scattered here and there, many were the same age of the house (built 1922).  The garden is divided in three parts: front, side and back respect to the house that enclicles on three sides. The whole measures are env. 300/350 sqm. I changed it a lot during these years, moving perennials and bushes, planting and removing trees, making new paths and islands, creating a vegetable patch, planting fruit trees and bulbs and so on, trying to develop it with an humble eye to the masters: Piet Oudolf and the Wirtz above all. The thing is that I’ve done all the planting and keeping, I have to say with the help of the family and of some good local arms, living and working in Rome. This is the story of how I have done it but  this blog is mainly about the life and development of this corner of paradise placed between sea and lagoon.