In 2007, the garden of Zucca Uomo appeared like a “lunar” landscape, the result of a previous intervention which didn’t take into account the context. The design, which in all took up the better part of two hectares, was then aimed at regenerating this landscape and restoring it to the hilly surroundings.
The garden doesn’t lack those perks that cannot be missing from a country retreat, such as the large vegetable garden fenced by a rosemary hedge. However, it’s by venturing down its snaking pathways that one notices the sensitivity of the intervention which has seized upon the limits of a particularly difficult context and turned them into strengths, by resorting mostly to native plants, especially the broom which now colours the slopes in yellow.
