In De Angeli area, in Milan, the spouses Enzo and Alessandra have furnished a 150 square meter terrace with a real hanging garden that, in pools of various sizes, hosts many plants and also the magnolia soulangeana, the butter bush, the American sumac and a magnificent and large olive tree that produces many pounds of excellent olives that the couple keeps in a jars with fennel, garlic and orange peel.
The communal garden has had the fortune of hosting a plane tree and a cedar of Lebanon, two lush trees that become a wing of a theatre stage, a background, an additional part of the home garden where it can be admire a tunnel of roses, or where someone can sit in the relaxation area with tables and chairs or look at the trees and the vegetation from a veranda composed of glass that looks like a cathedral of the early twentieth century, and surely from this side it doesn’t seem to be in Milan.
Alessandra is the gardener of the house and during the years she has become an expert, her trees are surrounded by a riot of lush flowers, a careful choice of colours that alternate themselves during the different seasons. All of this, in fact, is played on colour and on this alternation of various species: the purple clematis, ceanothus, mutabilis in various shades, Chinese roses beautiful as butterflies. Then some daffodils and tulips will arrive too, and even the violet, indigo and white colours of spring species in the typical renewal of nature that makes a garden always new and different and especially alive
The most important ingredient is the Alessandra’s obsessive attention, up to two hours per day! Because nothing like a garden can teach how important is the use of time, passion and attention.
But the reward is high: unique and aesthetical pleasure and the presence of spaces in which live in a more comfortable and rewarding way.