Giardino Bardini and Giardino Boboli in Florence

. size: large

. open to public, entrance fee, combined ticket for both gardens

. Photos from September 2015

Giardino Bardini - wisteria

Giardino Bardini - rose garden

Palazzo Pitti as seen from the Boboli Gardens. In the middle you can see an Egyptian obelisk. Boboli gardens are the biggest Medici garden. 

Both gardens have an excellent view on the city of Florence

A long cypress lane with sculptures at both sides

Isolotto, the island fountain with a statue of Oceanus. Under the main statue there are allegorical sculptures of Euphrates, Nile and Ganges.

Horti Leonini in San Quirico, Italy

. size: small

. city park, no entrance fee

. photo from November 2016

Statue of Cosimo III dei Medici

Miramare Park in Italy

. open to public, free access to the garden

. size: medium

. photos from October 2017

Miramare park contains a french formal garden which is placed in front of the Swiss house,  now a coffee shop.

Miramare castle as viewed from the English garden.

Villa Giulia Garden in Palermo

When visiting Palermo Botanic Garden you may also be interested in Villa Giulia Garden but it is not so well mantained:

Villa di Castello near Florence

. public, free entrance

. garde size: now small

Photos from April 2016

Villa di Castello garden has a simple structure with symmetric rectangular flower beds. 

Behind the place where photographer stands in this picture, the garden continues to bosco. 

The garden also contains a basin with the sculpture of January (Ianuarius) made by Bartolomeo Ammanati.

You may also be interested in:

• Medici Villa of La Petraia garden, Florence
• Villa Gamberaia garden near Florence
• Butterfly house and Garden in Villa Garzoni in Collodi
• Villa medicea di Poggio a Caiano 
• Giardino Bardini, Florence
• Giardino Boboli, Florence

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Villa medicea di Poggio a Caiano - Garden

. public, free entrance

. size: small

Photos from April 2016

Smell of fresh cut grass

Calls forth unexpected chill

Dark clouds rolling in

Thomas Hawkins

You may also be interested in:

• Medici Villa of La Petraia garden, Florence
• Villa Gamberaia garden near Florence
• Butterfly house and Garden in Villa Garzoni in Collodi
• Villa di Castello garden in Florence
• Giardino Bardini, Florence
• Giardino Boboli, Florence

Medici Villa of La Petraia Garden in Florence

. free entrance

. size: small - medium

. boxwood, tulips and roses

Photos from April 2016

Dead my old fine hopes

and dry my dreaming 

but still ...

iris, blue each spring

Shushir

Must spring time fade?

Then cry all birds ... 

and fishes'

cold pale eyes pour tears

Basho

You may also be interested in:

• Villa Gamberaia garden near Florence click here
• Butterfly house and Garden in Villa Garzoni in Collodi click here

• Villa di Castello garden in Florence
• Giardino Bardini, Florence
• Giardino Boboli, Florence

Villa Gamberaia Garden near Florence

. private, open to public

. entrance fee

. size: medium

. it lies in Settignano near Florence

Photos from April 2016

roses, lemon trees in pots, white wisterias and cypresses

In the moonlight,

the color and scent of the wisteria

seems far away.

Yosa Buson

The garden as it looks today was made by Caponi family in 18th centure.

The most famous part of Gamberaia garden are water basins ending in a green wall with a window. The views over Tuscany get even more charming when there is only a certain point from which you can see it.

Exotic Orto botanico di Palermo, Sicily, Italy

. public

. entrance fee includes several greenhouses for ferns and succulents

. size: large

Photos from March 2016

The garden offers a great collection of citruses.

Banana Blossom

Green shadow dances ...

See our young banana-tree

patterning the screen.

Shiki

Cotton Tree Avenue

Strelitia Blossom

In the middle of the picture, you can see a big round pond called Aquarium.

The Laghetto of papyrus

An old silent pond ...

A frog jumps into the pond,

splash! Silence again.

Basho Matsuo

Baroque Garden of Villa Barbarigo in Valsanzibio, Italy

. open to public, entrance fee

. size: large

. Photos from November 2016

Autumn moonlight -

a worm digs silently

into the chestnut.

Basho Matsuo

Scary Boxwood Labyrinth

Villa Garzoni in Collodi, Italy

Enchanting garden of Villa Garzoni (1652) - Giardino Garzoni

. open to public with entrance fee

. middle sized - big garden

. it lies 15 km away from Lucca

Photos from April 2016

Lady butterfly 

perfumes her wings

by floating

over the orchid

Basho

Symmetric stairs with three terraces is the main part of composition.

The garden is detached from the villa which is uncommon for 17th century.

Lily:

out of the water ...

out of itself

Nick Virgilio

Entrance fee to Villa Garzoni includes a butterfly house.

You may also be interested in:

• Medici Villa of La Petraia garden, Florence click here
• Villa Gamberaia garden near Florence click here
• Villa di Castello garden in Florence
• Giardino Bardini, Florence
• Giardino Boboli, Florence