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:


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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.

Herbarium Magicum - Chistmas 2018

Time ago, I decided to focus my love for flowers (also) to the painting and writing of some tradizional spells concerning some flowers.
The idea was to write down a real herbarium with dozen of paintings. Sadly time is short and my will changes; my mum asked me to gift these paintings for Christmas. So I prepared them and I will gift them all. Before that, I photographed all and here I post them to remember my love for flowers and for sharing the images.
I hope you will like (drawings and texts all done by me)

NARCISSUS POETICUS

CALLUNA VULGARIS

IRIS PALLIDA

PASSIFLORA INCARNATA

HYACINTUS

PELARGONIUM

Remembering the blossoming of the Rosa Damascena var. Ispahan

The winter has come. Finally. The snow slowly covered the slopes of the hills that once made the Roses Damascena blossoming; the time pass but the time comes back; just not to forget the absolute beauty of the Rose, I publish a picture of 2 flowers of Rosa Damascena var. Ispahan (i.e. Persian) that blossomed this early summer. Can't wait to meet up again with these colours!

Autumn 2018 - Cleaning of the Iris from weeds

This summer was quite rainy and the strong sun after the rain provoked a fast and extended growth of weeds in between the iris, even though we used the foils (I cannot imagine what a mess without the foils).

I have to admit that when I saw the situation on the fields my mood broke. This was the situation:

After a little, gathering all our forces we started - with a good help - the cleaning of all the iris; this work was accomplished just by hand with an enourmous financial and labour effort.

The result is this:

I think it was worthy!
It is also usefull to see how good are growing the iris on the fields; the use of the foils helped a lot in limitating the growth of the weeds.

Iris Pallida 2018 - New fields

We took the iris germanica and pallida planted in 2014 and in their place  - after a resting period - we planted an entire new field of iris pallida of around 850 iris.

The job was quite fast, considering the good weather and the sunny days of end September 2018.

As usual, we used the black foils to protect our cultivation anf for increase their quality.

Top: The soil was prepared, then the foil was set on it with squares cut for the iris.

Bottom: the beauty of the zone helped us to work harder in a good atmosphere

Bottom: the same photo of the first one, but with all the iris already planted.