The garden’s renewal began in 2011

2011 - The Aia

And lawn before being converted to dry garden.

2011 - The vegetable garden and pool hut

2011 - The vegetable garden and pool hut

As it was before the pool

2011 - The reception

2011 - The reception

2011 - View to the current entrance

2011 - View to the current entrance

2011 - Before the pool

2011 - Before the pool

Since 2011 I have been replanting the garden: holm oak, bay, Elaeagnus, rosemary hedges; banks of salvias, Rosa Mutabilis, ceanothus, stachys, nepeta, iris, lavender, grasses, and jasmine for June’s perfume.

In 2017 we renovated the barn and added a pool…

In 2017 we renovated the barn and added a swimming pool, introducing irrigation — until the well ran dry. Rather than replanting lawns, I followed Olivier Filippi’s Mediterranean dry garden approach. With Luigi Broghi’s guidance, we created gravel gardens of plumbago, cistus, erigeron, thyme, and helichrysum — resilient to +40°C summers and -10°C winters.

in 2024 a new well

In 2024 a new well secured our medieval tank.

The land, once abandoned, now breathes again. The garden thrives with little water; butterflies and jasmine scent the walks, olives are once more tended.

This is Jane Sacchi’s Tuscan garden — a living dialogue between architecture, landscape, and time