On day two of our visit to Piedmont in NW Italy, Pius Leutenegger took us on a botanical trip over the hills to Lake Maggiore and the first stop was the colonial town of Stresa and the ferry to subtropical Giardini Botanici dell’Isola Madre. This old botanical gardenis located on the Isola Madre in the Borromean Islands!
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giardini_Botanici_dell%27Isola_Madre and a video: http://www.isoleborromee.it/eng/isola-madre-video.html#madre
Stresa: The Grand Hotel des Iles Borromées
Salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor) on the sea front!
Great crested grebes (toppdykker)
Opuntia on the island
A mild climate
Bananas
Grapefruit
Cabbage tree, Cordyline australis
Feijoa…I ate the delicious fruits in NZ
Umbellularia californica (California Bay)
Umbellularia californica (California Bay)
Great crested grebes (toppdykker)
Bay (laurbær) hedge
Maackia grandiflora
Allium
Hemerocallis (day lily)
Wood ear fungus on Sophora japonica
Fatsia japonica (Japanese aralia)
Pius admires a Tea bush (Camellia)
Magnolia buds were excelllent, one of Matthias’ favourites
Magnolia
Cinnamomum camphora
Cupressus cashmeriana
Quercus suber, cork oak
Nettles
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Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
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