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Gardening since 2010
  • Name: Carola
  • Location: 62020 Gualdo, MC, Italy
  • Gardening experience: I'm new to gardening
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poppydreams 62020 Gualdo, MC, Italy

since 2 years i am working this beautiful land. we have around 10 acres, mainly woods on steep ground, but around the house i am creating a flower garden, and a field with all the veggies we wanna eat. » more
  • Last updated: July 20, 2011
  • Garden type: color

profumo 62020 Gualdo , Italy

i love the different smells i find in nature, like to stroll around, touch the rosemary and have the smell accompanying me for a while. have a laurel leave in my pocket... » more
  • Last updated: January 15, 2011
  • Garden type: Italian

winterdreams 62020 Gualdo, MC, Italy

here is more to find and appreciate in the cold winter-months than i ever could. had to catch it (on film? no more...) on !disk! that's it » more
  • Last updated: March 17, 2012
  • Garden type: color

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Raw Material for Botanica Fremont, CA

Photos of the material I pick before it becomes the art, although, I still consider it art. Most of it comes from my wanderings in the park near my home and my and others' gardens.

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  • Patrick-TheGreenGardener replied over 1 year ago
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    sallyfrances replied about 2 years ago
    hi Carola,I am surprised to open the message that came to my email this morning and realize that you are in Gualdo.  I am headed there this morning.  I have to pick up something at the post office which is only open about 4 hours a week.  I would love to meet for coffee or a walk, so if that interests you, let me know on my cellphone - 334 5304228.  I normally rely on my feet for transportation, so I don't expect to be coming to Gualdo too often.It is a great time of year - I'm enjoying that yellow scottish broom - ginestra? = and the gelsomino.  best, Sally from San Vito
    carola replied about 2 years ago
    @sallyfrances: Ciao Sally, do you live in san vito - close to L'Aquila? and you are going to Gualdo , macerata? that is definitely a reasonable distance. would be great fun so meet an english spoken plant lover in this neck of the woods - yes!!!!
    lfin replied about 2 years ago
    I know the feeling, Carola, about staying local.  Italy is so different from one place to another - even kilometers apart - that you need to prep yourself for a completely different dynamic to move between them.  We try and stick to familiar routes too - we surprise ourselves with how conservative we have become as travellers! - but there is alot to do where we are! But I do hope one day to meet up, someplace and time!
    TaraGillBotanicalPhotos replied about 2 years ago
    Hi Carola, I am sorry! I have been spelling your name wrong this whole time. And, I notice on closer inspection that you are holding a lamb not a golden retriever puppy! Oh dear. Tara
    Groundskeeper replied about 2 years ago
    I just realized that you and Lisa Finerty live not so far apart, BUT there are no roads between the two of you. Lisa lives in Otricoli, which is North of Roma about 30 kms. Well, maybe someday you can visit lisa or vice-versa.
    carola replied about 2 years ago
    @Groundskeeper:we checked that out, but for us been just twice in 3 years further away than to our county seat: macerata. once to get our ducks from the farm-fair in umbria and once to roma to do the airport (not fun!) .... not couch-potatoes but potato-grower :-)
    Groundskeeper replied about 2 years ago
    @carola: It's a life close to home because you're busy and because you have a good life where you are. No reason for a trip. But I still hope you and Lisa will meet someday.
    carola replied about 2 years ago
    @Groundskeeper: a friend from Jefferson visited for 4 weeks - we never made it further away than the airport, what is 1 hour drive. there is so much to see and to do just around us, and still much more for her next trip.
    Groundskeeper replied about 2 years ago
    @carola: Four weeks in a circle of one-hour radius sounds like heaven.
    lfin replied over 2 years ago
    Hi Carola!  Great post - totally inspiring.  Here's what I put on Facebook today: Oranges in Italy are red. Carola serves up some in her Winterdreams garden that will give you your recommended dose of Vitamin C from just looking at the pictures! 
    carola replied over 2 years ago
    @lfin:that made my smile - a wonderful idea - in that case i will share more of the healthy beauties around us ......
    PublicGardens replied over 2 years ago
    Hi Carola, we have dedicated a flower to you on the International Women's Day Public Garden. Click here to go to the garden. - The YourGardenShow team.
    sallyfrances replied over 2 years ago
    hey Carola profumo - thanks for the message and the clever vase-behind-the-door tip.  One thing I've learned here in San Vito di Narni is that I have better luck if I buy and plant things that are successful in the area.  My gelsomino (jasmine) and rosemary are vigorous and gratifying.  If you suggest other tough fragrant plants, I'm all ears.
    carola replied over 2 years ago
    @sallyfrances: gelsomino - i have to learn this name... yes that would be definitely one i have to have in this "profumo garden". i'm learning too what is all possible here. i just thought: at the border of our place is a drop off 2-3 meter and that place would be perfect for the spiny Cytisus scoparius, the Common Broom or Scotch Broom. i think that is the name of the plant growing here wild with wonderful smelling yellow flowers.
    lfin replied about 2 years ago
    @carola:'Tis the season now for broom.  Love it, on the mountains.  That gold/green combo is my favorite color. Next up by us, the hollyhocks.