
Strange times are ours: nature, greenery, garden, along with ecology and landscape, enjoy a mass media success that seem to have gained relevance. Multiplied magazines, conferences, trade fairs dedicated to the event. But as we know, be wary of appearances. The garden, greenery, landscape, nature, are just back in fashion and so ‘used’. They are “cool” as they say in a way that the aesthetic dimension of the image search has become values to be spent on market. And today the market offers an endless amount of plants and flowers from many different parts of the world: hence the ephemeral fashions of a flower or a tree that will last the space of a morning and do not take into account the environmental context. So it is not possible to build gardens and restructure landscape, and that’s how nature returns to mate with our cities and our homes. And this is particularly remembered in our country and, of course, has a great tradition of gardens and is also rich, but this wealth is equal to the negligence and carelessness in gardens and landscapes have been and are still subject. Arson of forests, maimed trees in the metropolis, in common gardens, parks, gardens and containers shows of green are the reality in which we live.
It is with this awareness that Ipomea of Negombo, the exhibition of rare and unusual plants of warm temperate zone, on the island of Ischia, now in its tenth edition, promotes meetings of various industry players and fans: devotees of rare plants of expiring ones, artisans who recover their traditional arts, artists working with nature, in growers plant in the Mediterranean maquis, the world of the Lepidoptera in constant contact with nature. Work and participation in connection with the Botanical Gardens of Naples, a presence all over to discover and exploit. It accompanies the exhibition with lectures and debates on the quality of the garden and the landscape not only in Italy but worldwide. And it wants to live a culture dimension to the visitors that is both natural and ancient extremely relevant. It responds to that need of a slow time, quality of life and beauty, of which our country has always been the bearer and is today the question of contemporaneity. The exhibition is taking place in an "Edenic" place, the hydrothermal park of Negombo that from year to year is shaping up as garden art, the landscape designer Ermanno Casasco introduced the “arc in the sky” by Arnaldo Pomodoro, “Strale” by Lucio Del Pezzo, “The Eyes of Blacks and Nesti” by Laura Panno, and “Fligh” by Giuseppe Maraniello as part of an art of the landscape in which the artwork is simply placed there, but it is part and parcel. The garden is the epitome of living in a sign of beauty. For this Ipomea of Negombo does stimulate a new awareness and a new attitude of affection and responsibility towards nature and the land that can make a vital contribution to the partnership from year to year, agreed with the Botanical Gardens with Seminars and Exhibitions.


"... It was soon discovered that every light[house] had a story—not every light was a story, and the flashes themselves were the stories going out over the waves, as markers and guides and comfort and warning..."
Heir to the tradition of wine by Corrado d'Ambra, the farm Mediterranean Garden is now a real point of reference for the production of good wine on the Green Island. Authentic dishes are in fact the "Biancolella", "Per' '' and Palummo", derived from grapes of five farmers, paid for plant and not a kilo. Even today, the wine is made in a cellar, unchanged over the time, where remain the "signs" and traces of the processing system.
Relaxation, privacy and exclusivity. These are the primary elements that today make the Eden Garden a unique structure, a real paradise (in word and deed) just a short walk from the Castello Aragonese, in the area of Cartaromana. Years ago, the complex was considered as equipped thermal park where you can find refreshment by the stress in everyday life and enjoy the well-known water purifying properties. In fact, there are four pools of thermal water from which to draw solace and comfort, surrounded by lush gardens and a pool bar. Since 1999, the new management, according the upheavals that have affected the tourism sector of the Green Island, has decided to change significantly the aspect of the Garden. Today is indeed a refined and exclusive beach, with only seven rooms, four with window and three with balcony. For children there is a junior suite, lovely and comfortable, also with balcony. It is the reason why to stay here is almost a "privilege" for those who, beating to the draw, are able to get availability even for a short stay.
A simple but refined wedding. It's the Hotel Paradiso & Resort proposal : a hall in the shape of moon to host 200 guests and neutral colors tablecloths, elegant and fine to personalize to your liking.
Every time that you enter the Giardini Mortella, it's seems to 'visit' the book "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Maybe because over the threshold, covered by climbing, you cannot image boundless greenery and flowers, maybe you think about a place far away, thanks to luxuriant plants to colour all around.
Sono i Giardini La Mortella di Ischia a tenere alto l'onore italiano nell'ambito dell'Horticultural Tourism: lo splendido orto botanico realizzato negli anni '50 da Sir William Walton e da sua moglie Lady Susana è stato eletto da un attento pubblico di turisti tra i tredici migliori al mondo. A darne notizia è stato nei giorni scorsi il quotidiano anglosassone The Guardian che ha pubblicato, nella sua rubrica di viaggi una lista di quelli che, secondo i suoi lettori, sono i giardini più belli al mondo.
Dal 20 al 22 maggio si rinnova l'appuntamento di "Ipomea, mostra mercato di piante rare ed inconsuete della fascia temperata calda", giunto alla sua nona edizione.
Incontro con Giuseppe D’Ambra, l’inventore di uno straordinario Giardino esotico
Il 22 marzo riaprono i fantastici Giardini Ravino. Un parco botanico tropical mediterraneo, con una collezione cinquantennale di piante succulente.
ISCHIA: DAL 2 APRILE AL VIA LA STAGIONE 2011 AI GIARDINI LA MORTELLA


Su una collina di granito ricoperta da una lussureggiante macchia mediterranea, nasce La Mortella è lo splendido giardino, oggi aperto al pubblico, creato da Susana Walton, la moglie argentina di Sir William Walton. Nel giardino si trovano collezioni di piante originarie da diversi paesi, come felci arboree dal continente Australe, Protee e Aloe dal Sudafrica, Yucche e Agavi dal Messico, e poi Magnolie, Bauhinie, Palme, Cicadacee ....






