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Is La Foce the greatest Italian garden? How this Tuscan estate became a timeless masterpiece – and how to get the look in your yard

For the best part of a year, I worked as a gardener at a private estate in Val d'Orcia, a region of Tuscany that feels much like the land that time forgot. South of Siena, Val d'Orcia is a ...
Wall Street Journal

Modern Landscaping Lessons From a Historic Italian Garden

It seems as if I have always known of the Villa d‘Este, the celebrated Renaissance villa and adjoining gardens northeast of Rome, but until this spring I really didn’t know much about it. I was dimly ...
WRIC

New self-guided tour explores history of Maymont’s Italian Garden

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Tucked in the hustle and bustle of Richmond sits a tranquil Italian Garden at Maymont Park. The gardens, installed in 1910 by the original Maymont owners, James and Sallie ...