GIULIO VERONESE
Specialised in ornamental and botanical horticulture, garden design (English and Japanese styles), and management of plant collections, garden projects, budgets and staff. Professional background in the United Kingdom, Japan and Italy.
MY BLOG
The National Collection of Cyclamen species
The Birmingham Botanical Gardens always looked with interest to the possibility to establish National Plant Collections. In 2005, when Nigel Hopes joined the Botanical Gardens, he brought with him an interest in Cyclamen which had begun in his early teens. Nigel...
Horticultural art of pine trees in Japan
To Barthelemy "Bart" Desilets-Roy teacher and brother in Japan. When I think of the constitutive role of pine trees in the soul of the Japanese people and their gardens, I think of an anecdote that happened to me in Japan. One sunny day in July I went for a...
Hunting Japanese azaleas
These days I love to repeat that I have “one job and one hobby”. The job is based in an English Garden near Fukuoka, in southern Japan; the hobby consists of the parallel investigation into Japanese flora and gardens. Thus, while all my blood-toil-tears-and-sweat is...