maurizio, just saw this thread
your garden is awesome!

Maurizio- a picture book is a necessity! Many of us here would have to have one!
Your reflecting pool speaks of serenity and a breather from the workaday world. I love it!
All of your roses and companion plants are amazing! I've never heard of Mme Falcot before. I will have to look it up. (I'm still looking for no spray roses for the hot and humid coast.) I too love catmint and have several clumps of it.
The way your paths thread between the flowers is an enchantment. What a wonderful creation! Thank you for sharing! (And don't forget about the book!) Brandy

Well, Maurizio, you have been missed. I wondered where you were and I was happy to see your post. I'm sure you have been busy maintaining your wonderous garden but I do look forward to seeing more photo's!

Carol

i hope no one minds that i pull this thread back up. Maurizio's climate i think is not so different from mine. i am studying his beautiful planting combinations looking to steal some ideas. yes-i am shameless!
Maurizio-if you see this-have you used leptospermum? i am thinking this is a good companion for the teas (so funny-i just see the similiarity of the names now).

Incredibile! Formidabile! It looks like a paradiso terreste!

Thank you so much for posting this.

Please do share more fabulous pictures in future. It must be wonderful in every season.

I came across this thread just today and I;m absolutely enchanted. Maurizio, you have created an amazing garden, seeing its development is so educational. You have created a paradise. Your photographs are stunning, please show us some more. Your combinations of companion plantings are so innovative. I am from India and trying to make a garden with little soil and less water. What do you use for mulch?
Warm congratulations
Girijavira

Just bumping this up because I like to see it every spring for inspiration. Yolana

Hello guys,
I've been really busy and didn't have the time to write again about the garden in the Forum. But, encouraged by many "friends" who ask me about from time to time, I would like to share this year's pictures whith you.
Plants have grown up and some areas have filled out nicely.
You can find a very long thread on my italian Forum (see the link below) with many pictures -starting from February to the present time of the year- showing also some "behind the scenes" works in the garden, and many interesting plants for mediterranean like, arid climates. Especially Roses, of course! The thread will be constantly updated since the end of the year.

A big hug to all, I miss you. :o)
Maurizio

Here is a link that might be useful: Something new in my sardinian garden

so lovely! I'll have fun looking through the thread slowly later.

Even though I can't read the posts I sure can enjoy the pictures--

Thanks,Florence

Lovely! Your garden looks very country-style and I like it.

For those who can't read Italian, GOOGLE has a TRANSLATOR feature - just type GOOGLE TRANSLATOR in the search, and you will be amazed with how fast it can translate the post. Although the translation may not be accurate, but at least you can understand something.

Incredible pictures, Maurizio. Bravo! You have a rare and wonderful talent and your garden is beautiful at every season. I look forward to more lovely pictures.

Ingrid

Link for the English translation of Maurizio's forum page.

Here is a link that might be useful: In English

Grazie, Maurizio, per averci vedere it tuo giardino. Your garden is wonderful, lush and peaceful. I love the view from the pond area, and the light is magical.

Masha

Wow! You are an amazing designer. Your garden is absolute perfection. Thanks for showing us what you have created.

Wonderful garden you have created Maurizio - with so many good elements and vignettes.

Mauritzio...oh my. My whole heart thanks you for letting us peek into your wonderland.
Your design is incredible and the lushness of your specimens is amazing.
Again thank you.
Jeannie

Hello and thanks to everyone :o)
Hart, I must admit that Google traslation is really funny, but now I feel almost proud of my uncertain english! Thank you! :o)))
Niels, I especially appreciate your comment, as I see from your fabulous pictures and roses what kind of a gardener you are! Lookin' at your Delphiniums makes me so envious, in mediterraneas climates we suffer the lack of valuable vertical accents, as spike-flowered plants last out for a very short time.
I've tried to create a garden full of lushy green and subles colours, feelin' fresh and quiet even in the middle of the summer furnace we have here. I'm always disappointed when, talkin' about "mediterranean" gardens, it always seems we have to choose between two opposites: an almost desert-like, xeric garden, or the subtropical lush of leaves and jazzy colours looking good only in the summer, and completely out of place the ramaining time.

If everyone want to know more about something, a design solution or some companion plants or the Roses ... or everything else, please feel free to ask.

Ciao!
Maurizio

Maurizio, your garden photos are a feast for the eyes ! So lush and rich in greenery and beautiful rose colour. I plan to come back every night to re look over your photos. I am glad you like St Swithum as I have a young ownroot growing well over a archway that in the fore front of my garden.
I am excited to see your marvelous Clair Matin as I have a grafted one and its blooms haven't looked that great yet, but now I know how beautiful it hopefully will become.
Thankyou so much for showing us your garden.

That is quite a garden you have there. It looks like it took an incredible effort to put it all together, but it sure paid off. Out of curiosity, do you also have a garden area for any fruits or vegetables?

I am so sick of the rain...how about a little view of paradise.

One of my favorite posts....

*bump*

Maurizio, your garden is truly a masterpiece!

I am thoroughly enjoying your beautiful garden photos from the link of your Italian forum. What a treat for the eyes!

Please stop by the forum often to update us on the progress or changes of your garden. You have been an inspiration to us all!

My very best to you and yours,

Audrey

Here is a link that might be useful: more photos from Maurizio's garden

Bumping this so we can all enjoy again!! Sure wish he was still posting...

You can find him on Facebook. I regularly see his photos there.

Rosefolly

Thank you for bumping, those are wonderful photos

This post was my undoing. I remember it well. I bought my first roses in February, 2007. Maurizio is a very seductive fellow.

Sherry

Here is a link that might be useful: If only sweat were irrigation...

I'm always so glad when you post, Maurizio. But I know what you mean about it being time-consuming...and you put up photos, too!Your garden is so truly beautiful; I can only dream that some day mine might somewhat approach that level. I hope some day I can visit yours,and that eventually mine will be accesible to the public,and I can invite people to mine...You are such a source of inspiration.And, by the way, your English is excellent; no need to apologize.Per�, capisco che � sempre pi� facile scrivere/parlare nella madrelingua (ora IO devo chiedere scusa per i miei errori in Italiano! e non ci sono scuse; abito qui dal 1985!!!) regards, bart,qui in Toscana

Thank you SO much for bumping this thread back. This started before my time on the forum and I've never seen these photos. They just transported me into a fairytale world. Breathtaking. Inspiring. And words for which there are no words.

Yes, thanks for bringing this back. It is also before my time. What a wonderful Mother's day gift. I just couldn't believe my eyes seeing these magical photos. I was just reading another post by campanula, about what a special place this forum is. Literate, funny and joyful posts. I am now going out into my little garden with a cappuccino in a tribute to Maurizio. If he can do that with 0.4 acres.....

Oh, I loved this post as well! This was so inspiring when I first saw it a few years ago. I really wish he was still posting.

Rosefolly -- how do you find him on Facebook? I couldn't find his full name here...

Hello to everyone, I'm glad to hear from all of you. Thank you :)
I'm pretty busy with work and time to write on the forums is almost reduced to nothing.
But I still read from time to time, and miss you all so much!

I'll try to post some new pictures of the garden, soon. It has changed "a bit" since this first post!

Ciao!
Maurizio

Ah! You posted Maurizio! So wonderful to hear from you again. I often look at your pictures for inspiration as I suspect my climate (Northern California) is quite similar to yours. Please update or add links where we can continue to follow you!

p.s. It looks like you have many David Austins in full sun. I find I can't do that here as they seem to bleach out. Do you have that problem too, or is it simply a matter of establishing a mature plant?

Hi Maurizio!
I look forward to see some new garden photos of yours. Could you please post a picture of your St Swithun rose? I'm still deciding whether or not to keep this rose because it hasn't bloom much for me.
Thanks

Hi, am bumping this again, I get so much inspiration from Maurizio's garden, and thought the newer posters might enjoy it.

ogrose

What a pleasure to see Maurizio's garden again. It's simply unforgettable. I could be wrong but I seem to remember at least one other post of his showing his garden, equally beautiful and enchanting. His is a rare talent. I hope climate change hasn't affected his garden too much.

Ingrid, this post is from 2007; I just can't resist taking a look at it from time to time.

I had the pleasure of meeting Maurizio this past summer at Mottisfont. He started out with this family garden when he was still in his teens and went on to become a professional landscape designer. Not exactly a surprise. If he worked in the USA, I would scrape together my dollars and hire him to design mine without question. I find his to be among the most beautiful gardens anywhere in the world.

What a joy this Maurizio thread is.

Maurizio hasn't posted anything in years. It would be great to get an update on his career, and even see some of his professional projects. He's truly talented.

John

EDIT: The link to M's photos no longer works, so I tried checking out his pro website, but it doesn't appear to have been updated in years, either. I wonder if he has another, more current one? I sure hope he's doing well.

John, I'll try to find the link so you can still view the pics. thanks for brings this thread up again. AMAZING!!! Was it him who was designing a tea rose path?

He's still active on HMF, and you can see his Facebook pages here, showing some of his work in progress...

La Pietra Rossa

Thanks to Malorena & Fig & all who've kept this post alive through the years. Magical garden, Marizio! Just updated today - http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=3.19075  Sue

Sue, Sheila is the one who resurrected the thread this time. But the timing was really weird, as I had just been thinking I'd like to see Maurizio post again, lol. Great minds...

More to drool over:

Maurizio's Instagram...whoa!

Garden Travel Hub article

Thank you for this!

Oh, Vaporvac, I totally forgot to answer your question, lol. Yes, it was Maurizio who was designing the "tea walk". There are photos of it here.

Scroll way down. I'd love to see it now that it has had time to mature!

I just checked out his Instagram. Wow! I’m not sure which pictures I drooled over more, his flowers or his selfies! Did I really just say that?

The rest of us thought it Lisa!

I bite my tongue. My lips are sealed. I make no moral judgment. Really. Honest.

lol :D