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SENSITIVE GARDENS

SENSITIVE GARDENS HAVE TWO MEANINGS: SENSITIVITY IN THE SENSE THAT YOU CAN “FEEL” WITH THE FIVE SENSES (TASTE, SIGHT, SMELL, TOUCH AND EVEN HEARING!) AND THEY ARE NOT JUST EMBELLISHMENTS BUT REAL WORLDS TO EXPLORE; BUT ALSO SENSITIVE MEANING THAT PLANTS ARE CONSIDERED AS BEINGS THAT CAN “FEEL”, SENTIENT CREATURES, WITH PERCEPTIVE AND COMMUNICATIVE ABILITIES AND, CONSEQUENTLY, WITH DIGNITY.

THE GARDEN IS ALSO CONCEIVED AS A UNIVERSE CORNER, A SMALL UNIVERSE IN ITSELF THAT IT’ IS HOWEVER PART OF A LARGER SYMPHONY WITH WHICH IT RESONATES.
PLANTS ARE NOT ONLY IN CONTINUOUS DIALOGUE WITH EACH ONE OF OTHER THROUGH ROOTS AND HERBS, BUT THEIR COMMUNICATION EXPANDS, INCLUDING HUMAN BEING, ANIMALS, BIOSPHERE, PLANETS, AND THE COSMOS. PLANTS ARE ABLE TO SEND AND RECEIVE CHEMICAL, MECHANICAL (SOUND, TACTILE), ELECTRICAL AND VISUAL (I.E. LIGHT / DARK) URGES. THE FACT THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE SPECIALIZED BODIES APPOINTED FOR SUCH PURPOSES DOES NOT MEAN THAT THEY DO NOT POSSESS, IN A WIDESPREAD MANNER, THE FACULTY OF PERCEIVING, INDEED, OFTEN, THEY HAVE MUCH FINER AND BROADER SENSES THAN OURS. THEY EVEN HAVE SENSES THAT WE DO NOT HAVE (AT LEAST 15, ACCORDING TO PROFESSOR STEFANO MANCUSO, WHO CARRIES OUT INTERESTING RESEARCH IN THIS REGARD).
PLANTS REPRESENT A SORT OF NERVOUS SYSTEM OF THE EARTH, WITH THEIR ROOTS AND BRANCHES LIKE ANTENNAS. THEY ARE VEHICLES OF MESSAGES AND SPEAK A VERY SOPHISTICATED AND INTEGRAL LANGUAGE.

WITH PLANTS HELP, GIVING THEM A SUITABLE PLACE AND THE RIGHT CARE, ALSO US PEOPLE CAN SPEAK TO THE WORLD, AS IF WE WERE WRITING A BOOK, PAINTING A PICTURE OR COMPOSING A SONG WITH NOTES, COLORS, SMELLS AND WORDS OF THE NATURE ITSELF.

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Fino a che uno non si compromette, c’è esitazione, possibilità di tornare indietro e sempre inefficacia. Rispetto a ogni atto di iniziativa (e creazione) c’è solo una verità elementare, l’ignoranza uccide innumerevoli idee e splendidi piani. Nel momento in cui uno si compromette definitivamente, anche la provvidenza si muove. Ogni sorta di cose accade per aiutare, cose che altrimenti non sarebbero mai accadute. Una corrente di eventi ha inizio dalla decisione, facendo sorgere a nostro favore ogni tipo di incidenti imprevedibili, incontri e assistenza materiale, che nessuno avrebbe sognato potessero venire in questo modo. Tutto quello che puoi fare, o sognare di poter fare, incomincialo. Il coraggio ha in sé genio, potere e magia. Incomincia adesso.

J.W. Goethe, Faust

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I DEAL WITH DESIGN PROJECT OF ORCHARDS AND GARDENS THAT I DEFINE AS “SENSITIVE”, BY INTEGRATING THE PRINCIPLES OF SYNERGIC AGRICULTURE, BIODYNAMICS, NATURAL AND CONSCIOUS AGRICULTURE IN MY WORK.

I TRY TO INTERACT WITH SPACE IN THE LESSER INVASIVE MANNERS ASSUMING THAT SOIL AND EARTH ARE ORGANISMS, SO LIVING BEINGS FORMED BY THE COOPERATION AND THE SYMBIOSIS OF BILLIONS OF OTHER SMALLER LIVING BEINGS, SUBSTRATE AND MOREOVER WITH PLANTS. I ALWAYS ATTEMPT TO BE MORE SENSIBLE AND RESPECTFUL AS POSSIBLE, TRYING TO SEIZE AND NOURISH, WITH MY CHOICES OF GARDENER, THE SPIRIT OF THE PLACE.
THE BASIS OF MY WORK ETHIC ARE: OBSERVATION AND LISTENING OF THE ENVIRONMENT, PASSION FOR OF SPECIES BELONGING TO THE AUTOCHTHONOUS OR OTHERWISE EDIBLE OR AROMATIC FLORA, INTERCROPPING, SOIL FERTILITY CARE, HARMONY WITH LANDSCAPE SHAPES AND NATURAL RHYTHMS.
I’D RATHER SPEAK ABOUT HORTICULTURAL GARDENS THAN ORCHARDS OR GARDEN AS IN MY OPINION THEY HAVE THE SAME CONCEPT: ORCHARDS TO LOOK AT AND EDIBLE GARDENS; WELL… SPIRIT PLACES, VEGETABLE LIVING MANDALA EVOLVING CONTINUOUSLY.
FOR THIS REASON, I REALLY APPRECIATE THE CUSTOMER’S CONSCIOUSNESS THAT THE GARDEN IS NOT SIMPLY A WINDOW OR SOMETHING WITH A DECORATIVE FUNCTION. IT IS A SOUL PLACE, A SORT OF AN ENCOUNTER PLACE WITH NATURE SPIRITS. IT IS ALSO A RELATIONSHIP MEETING CORNER BETWEEN US AND THE COSMO, A BELOVING CREATURE, AN ORGANISM OF WHICH WE ARE PART OF.

IN ADDITION TO THE DESIGNING, CONSULTING AND GARDENING, I TAKE CARE OF THE DIVULGATION AND AWARENESS OF THE HORTICULTURE CONSCIOUSNESS AND PLANTS’ WORLD.
I ORGANIZE WALKS OF RECOGNITION AND COLLECTION OF EDIBLE SPONTANEOUS FLORA, SOMETIMES PRECEDED BY A BRIEF LESSONS (THE HISTORY AND THE WHY OF THE HARVEST, THE TRANSITION FROM HARVESTING TO HORTICULTURE AND FROM HORTICULTURE TO AGRICULTURE) TRYING TO OPEN NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE TOPIC.
I HAVE ORGANIZED A COURSE OF ALCHEMICAL HERBALISM ON THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PLANETS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND PLANTS (ASTRI & FOGLIE – RHYTHMS AND PLANETARY ARCHETYPES IN THE PLANT WORLD).
I WORK ON A REGULAR BASIS TOGETHER WITH THE ONLINE PUBLICATION ETICAMENTE.ORG, WITH ARTICLES DEALING WITH ECOLOGY, HORTICULTURE AND AWARENESS.
I AM WRITING A BOOK ON TREES, THE VEGETABLE FORMS I LOVE THE MOST.
I ‘M WRITING IT FROM COVER TO COVER: STARTING FROM BOTANY, TO PHYSIOLOGY, UP TO THE ARCHETYPAL TEACHINGS THAT EACH ESSENCE OFFERS US.

MY FIRST APPROACH TO THE PLANTS’ WORLD WAS “CURATIVE”: SINCE I WAS A CHILD I WAS SURROUNDED BY HERBAL MEDICINE PLANTS AND I GREW UP IN A HOUSE WITH A LARGE GARDEN WHERE TWO HUGE CEDARS OF LEBANON TOWERED UP (THERE WERE ALSO THREE BEAUTIFUL BIRCHES BORN FROM THE SAME STOCK, A ROUNDISH YEW, A POMEGRANATE, A CAMELLIA THAT NEVER SEEMED TO STOP BLOOMING, AND ROSES..). THANKS TO MY MOTHER I APPROACHED THE STUDIES OF PLANTS THROUGH AYURVEDA (ANCIENT INDIAN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE, WHICH I DISCOVERED STUDYING SANSKRIT AND PHILOSOPHY OF INDIA AT UNIVERSITY – FOR THOUSANDS YEARS, AYURVEDA HAS BEEN STUDYING THE HEALING PROPERTIES OF PLANTS, WHICH CONSIDERS SACRED) AND LATER THROUGH THE STUDY OF NATUROPATHY, ALCHEMICAL HERBALISM AND SPAGYRIA.

I HAD THEN THE FORTUNE TO FOLLOW MY INSTINCT AND THE “CALL OF THE WILD”. THAT VOICE IN THE HEAD (OR IN THE HEART?) THAT CONTINUALLY TOLD ME THAT LIFE LIVED FAR FROM NATURE WAS A LIFE HALF LIVED AND THAT IF I REALLY WANTED TO KNOW MYSELF AND TO KNOW WHO I WAS, I HAD TO MEET PLANTS. MOREOVER I HAD TO HELP PLANTS AND BECAME THEIR VOICE. RECOGNIZING THIS FACT IT HAS BEEN VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME AND HAS GIVEN RISE TO CAPITAL CHOICES THAT HAVE TAKEN ME AND MY LIFE TO A DIFFICULT BUT WONDERFUL ROAD. WHICH ROAD IS EASY, AFTER ALL?

THE CONTACT WITH THE EARTH AND WITH THE PLANTS, WHICH GOES BEYOND THE MENTAL LEVEL AND CONNECTS DIRECTLY TO THE COSMOS, IS THE ONLY THINGS THAT ENABLES ME TO HAVE A DEEP CALM, AN INTEGRITY FEELING, OF ADHERENCE TO MY AUTHENTIC NATURE, WHICH I HAD ALWAYS LOOKED FOR. I BECOME A WHOLE WITH THE EARTHLY AND THE COSMIC ORGANISM. ONLY THEN I DID NOT FEEL ALONE ANYMORE. WHEN I WORK THE LAND MY MIND OPENS UP AND THE BEST IDEAS ALWAYS COME TO ME WHEN I’M WITH PLANTS.
I TRY TO INTEGRATE ALL MY KNOWLEDGE IN MY WORK, BOTH IN THE APPROACH TO THE IDEA OF GARDEN AND THE SELECTION OF SPECIES, AND BOTH IN THE CARE OF PLANTS WITH HERBAL REMEDIES.

CURRENTLY, AS FAR AS RESEARCH IS CONCERNED, I OBSERVE AND DEEPEN THE KNOWLEDGE WE HAVE ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PLANETS AND PLANTS, WITH A PROJECT CALLED “PLANETARY FLOWER BEDS” (“PLANTS & PLANETS”).