Tag: Muscari

  • Il Orto Botanico dell’Università di Genova

    Il Orto Botanico dell’Università di Genova

    Today we ventured out to find a garden—and although what we thought would be a 14 minute walk turned into a hilltop adventure, well, we’re in Italy, so it was all fine.  Established in 1803, the collection is not as historic or as grand at the one in Padova, but it’s a bucolic place, not…

  • Wordless Wednesday: Green Peeks from Sicily, Italy (Sicilia, Italia)

    Tassel Hyacinth aka Muscari comosa or Leopoldia comosa. (Photo taken at Villa Romana del Casale.) Possibly date palm—let me know if you can identify it. (Photo taken at Villa Romana del Casale.) One of many Cercis siliquastrum seen blooming in Sicily in April. (Photo taken in the Valle dei Templi in Agrigento at the garden wall…