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 ...

Tucked away within University Circle and the cultural hub of Northeast Ohio is the Italian Cultural Garden. What is the Italian Cultural Garden? Joyce Mariani, Italian Cultural Garden Foundation: The ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The notion struck her as crazy initially. No one, thought Joyce Mariani, would be interested in live opera at the Italian Cultural Garden. How wrong she was. Not only did the event ...

What strikes people most about our garden is its simplicity. Although the design is clearly Italian, it could be transported to almost any corner of the world. Close your eyes and imagine that you are ...

From the street, Florence Welborn’s North Slope garden looks like most other Northwest gardens: tall maples and conifers, some rhododendrons. But peer over the edge of the wall and you’re in another ...

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 ...

Based on papers presented at the symposium entitled "Recent issues in Italian garden studies"; held on Oct. 19-20, 2007 and organized by the Garden and Landscape Studies Program at the Dumbarton Oaks.