Biodiversity discover

Cordilina is a popular ornamental plant with its long, narrow, curved leaves. It has an elegant habit and sinuous forms that add an exotic, tropical touch to any garden. Easy to grow and hardy, it is perfect for brightening up green spaces or as a houseplant.

The tricolour jasmine is a climbing plant with unique and decorative foliage. Its leaves, which mix green with white and pink, look like small, hand-painted works of art. Besides its lively appearance, it is easy to grow and perfect for adding a touch of cheerfulness and elegance to gardens, wrapping fences and pergolas with its colourful charm. Being an evergreen, it manages to maintain its beautiful variegated foliage all year round, warming even the coldest months with its exuberance.

The loropetal is a shrub that keeps its leaves all year round, providing shelter and food for animals even during the cold months. Lively and charming, it is known for its feathery, fragrant flowers that bloom in spring in shades of pink, red or white. Its presence contributes to biodiversity, providing habitats and resources for insects, birds and small animals in our environment. With its evergreen leaves and colourful flowers, it adds beauty and grace to borders and flower beds.

The nandina is a compact shrub with shiny, colourful leaves that change colour from green to bright red, especially in autumn and winter. It is prized for its hardiness, ease of cultivation and ability to create beautiful contrasts in green spaces. This small shrub brings a touch of charm and liveliness to the garden with its colourful leaves and clusters of red berries. It is easy to care for and retains its changing charm all year round.

The photinia is an evergreen shrub with shiny, glossy leaves, and is particularly valued for its hardiness and ease of cultivation. In spring, the leaves turn bright red before maturing into a beautiful deep green. It is ideal as a solitary plant in the garden or for creating decorative hedges. Resistant to cold and disease, it is an excellent choice for gardens of all kinds.

The mountain pine is a small evergreen tree that can add a touch of Alpine charm to gardens. With its compact appearance and green needle-like leaves, it is perfect for creating cosy green corners. In addition to its decorative beauty, ideal for small, rocky gardens, the mountain pine is known for its beneficial properties. Its leaves contain essential oils with anti-inflammatory and antiseptic properties, considered to be a real boon in relieving flu symptoms.

Pittosporum is an evergreen shrub prized for its hardiness, adaptability and ability to form dense hedges. Its glossy leaves and small, white, fragrant flowers add a delicate, romantic touch to gardens.

Creeping rosemary is a variety of rosemary characterised by slow horizontal growth and expansion, which allows it to create an elegant, lush green carpet with its flexible branches. It is an aromatic plant with needle-like leaves with an intense and pleasant scent that evokes Mediterranean landscapes. Its small blue-purple flowers attract bees, making it an excellent plant for pollinating insects. Easy to grow and drought-resistant, it is perfect for borders and rock gardens.

The olive tree is a majestic, long-lived tree with long, narrow, silvery green leaves that can reach a height of 10 metres. Easy to cultivate, the olive tree is loved for its rustic beauty and the generosity of its fruit. As well as being a symbol of peace, longevity and prosperity, the olive tree is cultivated particularly in Mediterranean regions for the production of extra virgin olive oil. It is an affectionate presence that embraces earth and sky with its deep roots and gnarled foliage.

The vinca, also known as the lesser periwinkle, is a pretty little perennial groundcover plant. With its delicate white to blue-purple flowers and dark green leaves, it is the perfect companion to bring a touch of liveliness wherever it goes. Robust and undemanding, this plant is the perfect choice for a well-kept and colourful garden all year round; it is a valuable ally for anyone with a green thumb or not!

The bitter orange is an evergreen tree that bears fruit with an intense, slightly sour, bitter scent and flavour. It produces wonderfully fragrant white flowers, while the dark green leaves add a touch of elegance. Often used in perfumery and cooking, the bitter orange enchants with its beauty and versatility. Originally from south-east Asia, it is now widely cultivated in Mediterranean regions, particularly in Italy, Spain and France, where the warm, sunny climate favours optimum growth of the tree.

La dicondra strisciante è una pianta tappezzante con foglie piccole e rotonde, simili a monetine, che formano un tappeto verde e lussureggiante. Questa pianta è apprezzata per la sua capacità di adattarsi ad una varietà di condizioni climatiche e di terreno, è resistente e facile da mantenere e per questo è la scelta perfetta per creare prati morbidi e soffici, aggiungendo un elegante tocco di verde ai giardini e spazi esterni.

Creeping rosemary is a variety of rosemary characterised by slow horizontal growth and expansion, which allows it to create an elegant, lush green carpet with its flexible branches. It is an aromatic plant with needle-like leaves with an intense and pleasant scent that evokes Mediterranean landscapes. Its small blue-purple flowers attract bees, making it an excellent plant for pollinating insects. Easy to grow and drought-resistant, it is perfect for borders and rock gardens.

Rudbeckia is a perennial plant with large, bright flowers characterised by yellow petals with orange shades and a lime-green centre that attract pollinators such as bees and butterflies. It grows up to 90 cm and this variety is loved for its long flowering season from mid-summer to the early autumn cold. Easy to grow and drought-resistant, it is ideal for adding colour and vitality to the garden.

Sage is a perennial plant that enchants with its elegant blue or purple spikes reminiscent of lavender flowers. The dark green leaves provide a nice contrast to the bright flowers, which attract bees and butterflies. This plant is also known for its long flowering period, which can last from spring until autumn, making it a perfect choice for gardens looking for continuous colour. Drought-resistant, once established it requires little maintenance: with its elegance and robustness, this sage offers a combination of beauty and practicality for gardens of all kinds.

The yew is a tree of the conifer order that is widely used as an ornamental hedge or as an isolated plant pruned according to the criteria of ars topiaria. It is an elegant and robust evergreen tree and, with its dark green needle-shaped leaves and bright red berries, is perfect for gardens and hedges. It is also an ancient tree and can live for centuries, bringing a touch of history and charm to any space it occupies.