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Located in Fosseto, a hamlet of San Salvatore Monferrato, Villa Genova has belonged to the Genova family since the mid-1970s – its owners are the ones who actually remodelled the garden.

The previous owners, the Counts Franzini Tibalde, originally created a romantic garden in the XIX century, developing about 2.5 acres planted a hawthorn hedge (Crateagus spp.), beautiful plane trees, a Sophora Styphnolobium japonicum “Pendula”, bald cypresses (Taxodium distichum), and Spanish firs (Abies pinsapo). Most of those trees are now centuries-old and have grown into gigantic specimens.

William Genova, a garden enthusiast, was the main author of the following modifications in the garden: he surrounded it by a row of oaks and created avenues and paths to arrange the whole space into eleven different areas with their own vegetation. Bushes of rhododendrons and azaleas are interspersed with ferns, old roses and modern shrubs. Flowering shrubs, including collections of meadowsweet, deutzias and peonies grow next to each other, while, ground covering and herbaceous species include Convallaria japonica, Geranium macrorrhizum, Geranium robertianum, Saxifraga stolonifera, Campanula portenschlagiana, Juniperus wiltonii, Ceratostigma plumbagino and Hypericum perforatum.
At the bottom of the garden, there’s a small pond housing several species of aquatic plants such as including rustic water lilies, lotus flowers (Nelumbo nucifera) and Iris kaempferi.

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