Botanists and gardeners run guided tours, and at nightfall visitors can watch an elaborate firework display over the Italian garden.
The five-bedroom piano nobile, or main floor, with its 18-foot ceilings, rare antique pieces and Deco extravagances (such as a gold-tiled bathroom with a swan motif) faces the Grand Canal on one side, an Italian garden on the other.
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The way that the house welcomed the indoors in, the adaptation of Italian garden principles to a flat Florida swamp and the siting of the house next to Biscayne Bay -- all of this, combined with classical house and garden design, resulted in a work of genius.
The conservatory houses the show's centerpiece, the Italian Renaissance Garden, an evocation of the Western world's oldest botanical allotment, established in Padua, Italy, in 1545.
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"Wild Medicine" (it has a jawbreaker of a subtitie: "Healing Plants Around the World Featuring the Italian Renaissance Garden") traces the history of plants as palliatives and prescriptions while making abundantly clear that their use for what ails you is hardly a thing of the past.
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Italian gardens usually have hillside terraces, but Suarez and Chalfin transformed the low, flat swamp into the best Italian-style garden in America, with only a small amount of fill.
One modest dwelling on the edge of Koreatown has as many Roman statues in the garden as a medium-sized Italian city, if plastic ones count.
Fortunately, Philadelphia is awash with tasty picks, from Mark Vetri's fine-Italian Vetri to the quirky Talula's Garden, which opened just last year and has already earned national acclaim.
For several years she lived in an Italian village, leading a simple life and cultivating a garden: an idyll familiar today.
Serving as your personal port in the storm, this hotel and spa is modelled after an Italian villa with its courtyard lounge and fire pit, sculpture garden, outdoor pool and extensive grounds that have been cultivated with the scent and splendour of everything from roses to wisteria.
Yet the film hones in on the drama of everyday life in Africa, with Ms Basinger playing a peculiarly Americanised version of the Italian Ms Gallmann as she suffers through the inconveniences of elephants gobbling up the vegetable garden and visits from her disapproving mother.
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