18 May 2018
Parco di Palazzo Malingri di Bagnolo
The slope of the Piedmont hill of Valle Po is broken by an earthen platform held in place by dry stone masonry. The park of Malingri Palace in Bagnolo stands on this platform.
The seventeenth-century arrangement of hedges, flower beds, alleys lined with carpinus alba, and trees with tall trunks was redesigned at the beginning of the nineteenth century in the style of an English garden, with winding paths, places to admire the view, small buildings and dark woods. Even today the park's twin souls, one classical and the other Romantic, co-exist and complement each other, surprising the visitor with attractiveness of the combination.
The park, covering about two hectares, is rich in centuries-old trees as much as 40-45 metres tall, with examples of pinus nigra, pinus austriaca, cedri deodara, taxus bacata, metasequoie as well as fagus tricolor, oaks, chestnuts, libocedrus and criptomeria japonica, which surround the two spacious, airy lawns. A magnificent liriodendron tulipifera welcomes visitors right at the park entrance, flowering in May with thousands of yellow tulips.
In the middle of the lawn, in front of the Palace, an elliptical fountain known as the ''Green Man'' (a reference to some forgotten fable) is the home of fish and newts, while a hedge of rugose roses and a festoon of mountain clematis create a backdrop running along a wall overlooking an agricultural landscape. The gallery of hornbeams that leads to All Saints Chapel (1600) and hedges of box, hornbeam and yew running for almost two kilometres trace the old outline of the park as far as the Castle hill, delineated by Mondarello brook, surrounded by thick bamboos.
The ''deer pits'', created to provide a view from above of the delightful Italian-style garden and then arranged for use as an enclosure for deer and fallow deer, are now a lovely border of ferns crowned with light blue hydrangea bushes. Over the last 30 years the owners Aimaro and Consolata Oreglia d'Isola, following the family tradition, have given the park their personal touch, with special attention to the landscaping and pictorial aspect.
They have also added new species of flowers such as camellia japonica and camellia sasanqua, increased the collections of acidophiles and have planted anemones, periwinkles, violets, bulbs and hundreds of hostas in the undergrowth.
The seventeenth-century arrangement of hedges, flower beds, alleys lined with carpinus alba, and trees with tall trunks was redesigned at the beginning of the nineteenth century in the style of an English garden, with winding paths, places to admire the view, small buildings and dark woods. Even today the park's twin souls, one classical and the other Romantic, co-exist and complement each other, surprising the visitor with attractiveness of the combination.
The park, covering about two hectares, is rich in centuries-old trees as much as 40-45 metres tall, with examples of pinus nigra, pinus austriaca, cedri deodara, taxus bacata, metasequoie as well as fagus tricolor, oaks, chestnuts, libocedrus and criptomeria japonica, which surround the two spacious, airy lawns. A magnificent liriodendron tulipifera welcomes visitors right at the park entrance, flowering in May with thousands of yellow tulips.
In the middle of the lawn, in front of the Palace, an elliptical fountain known as the ''Green Man'' (a reference to some forgotten fable) is the home of fish and newts, while a hedge of rugose roses and a festoon of mountain clematis create a backdrop running along a wall overlooking an agricultural landscape. The gallery of hornbeams that leads to All Saints Chapel (1600) and hedges of box, hornbeam and yew running for almost two kilometres trace the old outline of the park as far as the Castle hill, delineated by Mondarello brook, surrounded by thick bamboos.
The ''deer pits'', created to provide a view from above of the delightful Italian-style garden and then arranged for use as an enclosure for deer and fallow deer, are now a lovely border of ferns crowned with light blue hydrangea bushes. Over the last 30 years the owners Aimaro and Consolata Oreglia d'Isola, following the family tradition, have given the park their personal touch, with special attention to the landscaping and pictorial aspect.
They have also added new species of flowers such as camellia japonica and camellia sasanqua, increased the collections of acidophiles and have planted anemones, periwinkles, violets, bulbs and hundreds of hostas in the undergrowth.
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All gardening is landscape painting- William Kent - |
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