Description
On Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 April in the park's greenhouse and meadows, the tulip will take centre stage. More than 80 varieties in different shades of colour will be on display in the park's nursery and will complement the rich blooms of the 50,000 bulbs blooming in the park's meadows.
Stories and videos, historical and botanical information and cultivation notes will enliven the two days.
TheTulipa genus, of the Liliaceae family, comprises a group of bulbous plants that are among the most common in gardens all over the world.
Native to Turkey, the tulip has a name derived from the Turkish tülbend=turbant; it was introduced to the West by the Austrianambassador at the Sublime Gate of Constantinople in the 16th century. Its cultivation soon became a fashion that drove up the cost of bulbs to a level that triggered the first speculative bubble in history.
On the two days at 3 p.m. there will be an informative meeting The Tulip, an onion of a thousand colours, where cultivation notes, tips and curiosities will be illustrated by Michele Grieco, the park's senior green technician.
It will also be possible to visit the exhibition Spazi cólti: i giardini nella storia d'Occidente (Gardens in the History of the West ) set up at Villa Paradiso inside the park.
The exhibition highlights, through a selection of images, films, documents and objects, the peculiarities of gardens and parks that are a synthesis of different knowledge and artistic forms, in order to raise awareness of a historical-cultural and environmental heritage that must be safeguarded and protected. Views of historic gardens from different eras focus on the evolution of styles and of the very concept of the garden from an ideal to a real place.
Admission free