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Keeping hydrangea blue
In message , Sacha
writes I saw a magical display in a vineyard villa in the Italian Lakes years ago: they had what must once have been a large shallow round fountain, now dry. This was completely filled with hydrangeas in pots, as many as fitted - and their gardener must have done something different to the soil in each, because although the plants looked very similar, they ranged in all possible shades from pink though lilac to blue.... And you're going to tell us you can't remember the name of the garden......? ;-) A living rainbow, how lovely! What a lovely way to describe it: that's exactly what it was like! If you add the balmy air heavy with the scent of flowering olive groves, the beautiful old villa with medieval reliefs, up in the hills somewhere above Bergamo, it doesn't even begin to describe the enchantment of the place. The name of the garden? It was the summer villa of a school-friend (she had been sent to our convent boarding-school in the States to learn English, but I think we all learned rather more Italian!), and alas, now I only have her Milan address ... do the Italians have an Open Gardens scheme, I wonder? -- Klara, Gatwick basin |
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Keeping hydrangea blue
On 31/3/07 15:49, in article , "Klara"
wrote: In message , Sacha writes I saw a magical display in a vineyard villa in the Italian Lakes years ago: they had what must once have been a large shallow round fountain, now dry. This was completely filled with hydrangeas in pots, as many as fitted - and their gardener must have done something different to the soil in each, because although the plants looked very similar, they ranged in all possible shades from pink though lilac to blue.... And you're going to tell us you can't remember the name of the garden......? ;-) A living rainbow, how lovely! What a lovely way to describe it: that's exactly what it was like! If you add the balmy air heavy with the scent of flowering olive groves, the beautiful old villa with medieval reliefs, up in the hills somewhere above Bergamo, it doesn't even begin to describe the enchantment of the place. The name of the garden? It was the summer villa of a school-friend (she had been sent to our convent boarding-school in the States to learn English, but I think we all learned rather more Italian!), and alas, now I only have her Milan address ... do the Italians have an Open Gardens scheme, I wonder? Il Libro Giallo is a thriller type novel in Italian, so I wonder what they'd call an Open Gardens Guide.? ;-) I'll ask my sil. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ (remove weeds from address) |
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