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Creating beautiful spaces for discerning
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ITALY - Villa Sassella These gardens are on a hillside near Lucca in
Tuscany. I took them over in Spring 1995
in the very early stages of their development - before the first plants were
specified. The client brief was
passed on to me as - “it’s got to look good in August and no red Hibiscus”. A few lines scribbled on sheets of A4 in
lieu of a plan and a few rather vague photos were all I had to go by. Some groundwork had begun before my arrival
accompanied by 2,000+ plants. I was
welcomed by the local workforce with slight astonishment, lady gardeners
being a rarity in Italy. I spoke no Italian
and had never visited the site before.
Luckily gardening (well Latin plant names) helped as our mutual
language and for everything else we
used my poor school Spanish, even worse French and lots of drawing diagrams
in the mud accompanied by mime! Once
we got to work and I was as muddy as them .... well I became Pianti Donna -
that’s what it sounded like to me anyway - it means Plant Lady! This is an ongoing project and the client and I now
work closely with a shared vision of what we are trying to achieve. On the following pages are photos of the gardens at
various stages in their development grouped into their respective areas. Some are complete stand-alone gardens,
others are planted areas, all interlink and/or flow together. For work
schedule purposes there are around 30 of these areas. The total site is approximately 40 acres Oh and I do now speak Italian .... as long as it’s
related to gardens, plants, restaurants or supermarkets and nobody is too
concerned about my poor grammar. |
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THE GARDENS
As I get
around to it … the number of links and pages for Sassella will increase – I
have kept a photographic record of the work here from my first ever day on
site …I have a lot of photos of mud with sticks in! All
these pages are in the old style – if you get lost just click the link back
to the Home Page |
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TENNIS
SIDE + FORECOURT PERCIES’
GARDEN |
ROSE GARDEN |
OLIVE TERRACES BOSSOLO BASSO TENNIS ORCHARD |
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THE HOUSE
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PIANTI DONNA
- The Web Site
We’re in the process of
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“The only
limits are your budget and my imagination … and remember you don’t have to do
it all at once. Let me help you
create your very own beautiful space.” |
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