Originally designed by English landscape architect Russell Page, the gardens of La Mortella on the island of Ischia in Italy's Bay of Naples have been more than 45 years in the making. Created by Lady Walton, widow of the English composer Sir William Walton, La Mortella is now home to some 1000 rare and exotic plants. The garden is open to visitors during the summer months. Canopied with tall trees, the garden contains fountains and rivulets, waterlily and lotus pools, scented palms, olive and citrus tree and exotic bromeliads and orchids. It is now part of the select Grandi Giardini Italiani (Great Italian Gardens) scheme, which comprises the most prestigious privately owned gardens in Italy. Royalties from the sales of this book about Lady Walton's garden go to the William Walton Trust, of which HRH The Prince of Wales is Patron.
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Lady Walton's sumptuously illustrated account of the creation of her beautiful garden, on the Italian island of Ischia. Published to coincide with the centenary of the birth of her late husband, the composer, Sir William Walton.
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If there is a Heaven on Earth...,
By Avi Solomon "http://jollysocratic.blogspot.com/" (Jerusalem, Israel) - See all my reviews
This review is from: LA Mortella: An Italian Garden Paradise (Hardcover)
it is this, it is this , it is this!Since Kashmir is 'dangerous' you might be inclined to Visit 'La Mortella' a truly amazing garden paradise. This Garden is the enduring, living 'legomonism' of Russell Page, master Gardener and disciple of Gurdjieff. The book includes both Page's original plan and an extraordinary aerial view color plan of the garden. 'Victoria Amazonica' is featured in sumptous photographs. It truly provides meaning to William Walton's epitaph: "All Bliss consists in this To Do as Adam Did" -Traherne
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