Iris blossoming May 2019 - Free to visit!

Dear all!

finally spring arrived (well ... actually is a very cold May with around 11 degrees!) and the iris stated to blossom; this year their number increased and the spectacle is quite amazing.

A friend of mine took some super pictures of the vision of the iris (around 33.000) and I let you judge the results:


If you want to visit please just write an email to irisbarbaresco@gmail.com


Bottom: 10 stunning pictures Barbara did (a big thanks!); this is art.

Bottom: the entrance to the Barbaresco Estate "Ca' Grossa" 

 Bottom: some (late) iris Germanica

Bottom: the blossoming fields in Govone (Estate "Monteforche")

Bototm: 10.000 iris pallida

From here start my pictures... the level is not the same...

Bottom: a complete panorama

Bottom: vision from San Pietro - Govone village

Rosa Centifoglia "Chapeau de Napoléon" - Roseyards

I finally ended my "roseyard", an invented word to describe how to cultivate roses like wineyards. Being in a land for wines, I've gotten the idea to use the system to hold the wineyards also for the roses, in order to make them grow also in hight, having the possibility to use the maximum extend of them.

This system is quite sperimental and therefore no success guaranteed. The visual effect will be by the way very beautiful.

As it's possible to see in the picture here above, the roses are all protected by a foil to avoid problem of cold or of heat in the summer. In the next months I will set an iron wire where to hang the roses and some pictures will be following.

Rosa Centifoglia "Chapeau de Napoléon"

Here we start with the cultivation of the Roses Centifoglie in the cultivar "Chapeau de Napoléon"; this kind of rose is well know for producing a superb scent and it is used usually for syrups and jams.

We will cultivate them in the way of wineyards, (you can see the sticks in the ground).

The idea is to make them grow untill 180 cm high in order to be able to harvest them not bending.

Just the future will be able to say if it is possible and the effect of the land of Barbaresco on the roses Damascena.