The Alpine Garden

The Alpine garden is a suggestive set of rocky gardenbeds that reproduces the mountain environment, with small reliefs and depressions characterized by different exposures. The presence of siliceous and calcareous rocks allows the cultivation of species with different soil needs.

There are plants from the high mountain (1500–2000 m above sea level) and alpine (above 2000 m) environments, coming from the mountain chains of all continents.

The current Alpine garden was created in 1962-63 by Professor Bruno Peyronel, a scholar of Alpine flora, to host species which, due to their particular needs, could not be grown in traditional systematic flowerbeds. For its creation, rocks from Pian della Mussa (1800 m., Valli di Lanzo) were used, while the plants come from collections in a natural environment or from exchanges with Italian and foreign Alpine Gardens and Botanical Gardens.

Read more:

Dal Vesco G., Caramiello R., 2007.  The Alpine garden. Neos Edizioni, 29 pages.