Belvedere Garden

14 collections of beauties and a beautiful winter garden

Thirty years ago the owner began to take care of this place in Caprile on the Biellese Alps at 520 meters above sea level.

Creating a structured garden required massive action on the territory by recovering landslide with earth moving with heavy vehicles and reinforcements with chestnut piling, felling of trees, creation of wings, perspectives and islands with hedges.

The goal was to find an acceptable compromise between introducing new plants, creating a Botanical Garden and maintaining the existing one, making it accessible through the proposals of the Holistic Garden.

The owner personally performed part of the work such as new introductions, sowing, planting, pruning, with the help of a gardener and friends, between visits that she expertly guides, transmitting her passion for plants.

In this corner of the Valsessera in the Biellese Alps, also with the help of important nurserymen, the best selections come from all over the world that go to implement 14 important “collections” made of rhododendrons, cornus, maples, magnolias, viburnums, hoste, hamamelis , rose gardens, hydrangeas, hellebores, ferns, bulbs, irises, and aquatic plants.

In winter, when the garden becomes silent, many trees with decorative bark color it, while conifers and evergreens perfume it.

It is organized with seven themed itineraries – Garden of Readers and Thinkers, Garden of Flavors and Knowledge, Secret Garden of Wellness and Perfumes and the Vestibule of the Fern Collection, Sound Garden, Garden of Well-Being, the Path of Sant’Antonio .  In the Garden of the Simple is added an area dedicated to medicinal and medicinal plants in which flowering plants that attract butterflies and, more generally, pollinating insects as well as a small group of animals have been planted courtyard, and the Sound Garden.

The garden is hilly and not very accessible for people with reduced mobility and strollers