All the wistaria here is blossom now , and it ’s jolly spectacular . The majestic bloom bunch are almost unthinkably luxuriant as they cling in thick sheets from fences , walls and terrace trellises .
Wisteria is a big vine , so it ’s not used so much in the modest garden , but for all the big villas it ’s practically a landscape requirement like the figs , laurels and olive .
When driving along the cheery coast route where many of the villas are situate there are many stretch where the whole road seems over-embellished these day . The giving bloom is in the former spring , but some plants go on a sporadic small-scale blooming for the whole warm time of year . The purple wisteria is by far the most coarse , but there are a few white or pinkish wisterias also to be pick up .
Some of the historical villas have exceedingly old specimen of wisteria vine still growing in their gardens . One fancy monastery near Portofino has a wisteria suppose to have been institute at the beginning of the nineteenth 100 when Napoleon ruled northerly Italy . The thick trunks of this two - hundred - year - old patriarch wisteria flop untidily above a turgid court that looks out over the water . When in flower it supports hundreds of thousands of purple blossoms . Quite telling . We’re in the end at the period in our own garden where we ’ll be ready to embed a wisteria at the top of the garden composite next yr , so I ’ll buy a few dormant plants at the local ag middling in January . In two hundred twelvemonth I ’ll imagine it will look with child dripping down from the top of the big cliff .
The second photo is of Hannibal ’s span in Rapallo . The main river used to run where the street is now , but was diverted west a hundred yard about a hundred and fifty year ago . After Hannibal and his elephants crossed over the Alps just a spot northwards of here , they legislate through Rapallo and around 217 B.C. Hannibal ’s troop built a nosepiece over the river in Rapallo , so they could continue their marching music south toward Rome .
So , it ’s a bit sad , but this will be my last blog forHobby Farms . It ’s been an gratifying year and more . Blogging has a deliciously cathartic effect on me , and I ’ve foregather a bunch of interesting nurseryman who have written to me .
The in effect news is that I get to start blogging on the sisterUrban Farmsite . I hope some of the HF readers will take a glimpse over there and find me . I ’d also appreciate it if even more of you would write to me . And if you ’re ever in Northern Italy with an hr to spare , please do visit Rapallo and my garden .
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