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VISITING GARDENS: The Aude, Forio d'Ischia

I rarely find myself planning a travel itinerary without there is a garden to visit. The holiday on Ischia was a precious break after a very difficult period in every respect. The ideal place for a rest, wonderful nature, landscapes and beautiful sunsets, the warmth of the Neapolitan island, good food and then a visit to the garden of the Aude! Located in a valley between picturesque rock formations of origin volcanism, Aude (the place of the myrtles) is a beautiful garden created by Sir William Walton, one of the leading English musicians of the twentieth century Argentina and his wife Susana. Sir William died in the Aude in 1983, his wife, who still lives there and takes care of some personal issues and has created the William Walton Foundation, which organizes and manages the garden in an outdoor theater built in the garden and overlooking the bay below, concerts and cultural activities. In 2002, the centenary of the birth of Sir William, Lady Susana you organized a concert to which he was the guest of honor at the Prince of Wales.

Aside from the curiosity knowledge of the place, one of the reasons for my interest was the fact that the garden was given in 1956 by the famous English landscape architect Russell Page who took care of the downstream part, integrating in a second time with the first three fountains and later with a stream and an octagonal fountain. Page, besides the great skills of garden designer, also had the precious gift of writing as we speak, and he did in his only book "The Education of a Gardener" (Ed. Allemandi), a valuable "Manual of gardening" which not only transmits knowledge to his innate passion and experiences that led him to design gardens in the world.

The garden ends in the valley below the house, inhabited by Lady Walton, perfectly integrated into the landscape, with walls covered with climbing plants. The water element is always on top anywhere in the gardens created by Russell Page, and here the effect is exhilarating: water and aquatic plants, tropical, and large trees form a whole, intimate and lush, closed, hiding the sky above, hundreds of specimens from all over the world who have found an ideal micro-climate in every season. In the greenhouse
of the giant water lily Victoria Victoria Longowood Hybrid "blooms at night, in the same are also some beautiful orchids.
little further begins the path that leads to the garden in the hills personally designed and developed by Lady Walton after the death of her husband, cheerful, with many vantage points and allegorical and symbolic architectural elements. The ashes of Sir Walton collected in the stone of William, a large volcanic rock with a touching inscription of his wife, one of the most picturesque and romantic.
little farther on a collection of succulents and aloe accompanies the stairs below the Temple of the Sun, divided into three rooms of the birth, life and death, with erotic carvings of mythological inspiration and some phrases taken from the works of William Walton. Over the great waterfall of the crocodile, then one of the points that struck me most: The Thai House, a Japanese garden overlooking a pond with lotus flowers.
The path ends with the Glorieta, a pergola covered with climbing blue, overlooking a lake of blue gravel, beside a fence with three Tibetan goats perfectly domesticated. Along the way collections of roses, sage, aromatic.
Not just a garden, a path in an imaginary world, fantastic, well-groomed, with a discreet but ubiquitous service order, with a clear division between the "valley", where the fountains with the islets covered with ferns, bromeliads, Washington, Colocasia transport you to a tropical landscape and the "hill", with its passages through various environments, so different and so close, its landscapes, the angles that suggest a romantic garden that was born and still lives by a great love story.