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The Garden is located at an altitude of 1.476 ft, on the southern slopes of Monte Grappa. It was created on the very area where, around 1920, a forest nursery was built on a series of terraces compounded within dry stone walls.
This space evokes the simple and straightforward succession of natural environments that can be found on the way down from any peak of the Venetian Pre-Alps to the plain: the rocky garden, the fresh scree, the consolidated scree, the high altitude prairie, the fir wood, the typical mountain beech wood, the blade, the mountain pasture, the lower beech wood, the chestnut grove, the orchard, the olive grove, the thermophilic oak grove, the plain wood, and the crops.

The garden mainly represents mountain areas (above 1.969 ft), where the different typical environments and hilly areas are clearly defined (between 328 and 1.969 ft). In the latter area, there are more than 300 herbaceous, shrubby and tree species.

There are several species related to the alpine and subalpine spontaneous flora such as ferns, rockfoil, gentians, primroses, eight-petal mountain-avens, and rhododendrons.

Some portions of the garden are dedicated to some twenty species of Asteraceae, five varieties of orchids.

Educational visits are available, walking along the suggested itineraries within the garden. Workshops on tree identification and environmental education activities are possible as well.
The hands-on workshops are aimed at teaching children to recognize the trees of the Venetian mountains by observing their most important features such as the bark and the wood; on the other hand, the environmental education activities are focused on the life and structure of the trees taking into account how they may change their look in each different season (Berenice Progetto Berenice).

In the garden there are numerous species of subalpine and mountain flora, such as ferns, gentians, primroses, rhododendrons, rockfoil, orchids, but also wild flowers; an entire area is, in fact, dedicated to cornflowers and poppies.

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