Biennale del
Giardino Mediterraneo

The festival is the first international event dedicated to Mediterranean landscape, and involves leading landscapers, artists and architects, young designers, scholars, institutions and enterprises.

The theme for the 2019 edition introduces a current very relevant topic: productive gardens. A garden that knows how to creatively conjugate, in the third millennium, the ancestral need for utility with the new aesthetic needs of contemporary society and, at the same time, not neglecting man’s quest for the garden as an intimate place in which to find himself and regenerate.

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  • 01

    RAINBOW OF SPIKES

    Colori nel Verde Garden design
    Country: Italy
    Golden and swaying, since forever a symbol of wealth and prosperity, wheat spikes of seven different ancient Sicilian varieties symbolize the seven colours of the rainbow.
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  • 02

    CARMINE CATCHER

    ANNA RHODES, CLARE FLATLEY
    Country: Scotland
    This garden expresses the value of a colour: carmine red. ‘Carmine Catcher’ celebrates the natural production of the colour obtained through extraction from the dried body of the carmine cochineal (Dactylopius coccus), which feeds exclusively on the pads of prickly pear on which it is bred.
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  • 03

    COME BACK TO ITACA

    NaCl Team
    Country: Italy
    "Come back to Ithaca" is the journey back home, to be accomplished through a physical and mental path. Through the archetypal model of inclusion, the garden protects and preserves an intimate secret that will be revealed only to the most daring traveller.
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  • 04

    THE SIGNORA’S GARDEN

    Guillame Servel
    Country: France
    "Il Giardino della Signora" celebrates the concept of soil in the Sicilian environment. In this island territory Mount Etna is a strong marker of the landscape. Visible from every street, every house, every terrace, the burnt land reminds everyone of the versatility of the volcano that dominates them.
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  • 05

    THE BABYLONIAN CRADLE

    Elena Gazzi, Peter Grant
    Country: Spain
    Through agriculture, we started to separate ourselves from nature. We stopped leaving our fate to the natural order of things and began to change its organization. Agriculture came from the need to survive, to better our conditions.
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  • 06

    CAN A GARDEN
    PRODUCE WATER?

    Lorenzo Decembrini, Ilaria Tabarani
    Country: Italy
    Where it was not possible to directly draw on water resources, man was able to capture water from the air. These three micro gardens recall three such techniques.
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  • 07

    POLIPHILO MEETS CANDIDE

    Marco Vomiero
    Country: France
    This garden brings together the experiences of two literary characters. Poliphilo, the hero of a book from 1499, arrives on the island of Citèra, a lush and fruitful garden in a mystical, aesthetic setting. Candide, in the XVIIIth century, is directed by the author Voltaire on a search for the best possible world,
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  • 08

    PLANTA SAPIENS

    DOMENICO DIPINTO, MARICA SUCCI,
    ENRICO TURINI, ELENA VARINI
    Country: Italy
    Is our way of celebrating the exceptional capacity that plants have to adapt to our world: unlike men, plants have always proved highly resilient and capable of optimal use of resources.
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  • 09

    THE LONG PATH

    Rebeca Nuevo Mayán,
    Adrián Oubiña Esperón
    Country: Spain
    This garden is a long path to meditate, a walk, thanks to which it is possible to admire the Mediterranean productive landscape. In this case it is a vineyard, where wine has been produced and transformed by man in the last centuries.
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  • 10

    THE GARDEN OF ESSENCES

    Giulia Baldin
    Country: Italy
    Il This garden was created with the two meanings of the concept of Essence in mind: the first, and most obvious, is the substance extracted from a plant; the second, is that deep human feeling of awareness of one's own existence.
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  • 11

    LAYERS

    Andy Sturgeon
    Country United Kingdom
    "Layers" is a reflection on the dependence of man upon the natural world to provide food, water and shelter; the fundamental necessities of life. Inspired by the anatomy of plants the curvaceous walls are reminiscent of scattered flowered petals or the fleshy storage scales of an onion bulb that erupts into life when conditions are right.
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  • 12

    HOME GROUND

    Antonio Perazzi
    Country: Italy
    The garden produces the gardener who inhabits it, caresses it, smells it, collects its exotic fruits. "Home ground" is a garden that can shape and take the shape of plants.
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