The Botanic Garden “Lama degli Ulivi” rises in the South of Italy, in the lovely Apulia countryside surrounded by aged olives trees. Thanks to the original design of the garden, visitors are attracted by the natural integration of plants coming from every part of the world.

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There’s a place in Apulia region where the different variety of plants of the world live together in perfect harmony.
They gaze, intertwine and bloom togheter. It is a place wich geographical distances are cancelled and time seems to be suspenced. We are talking about the Botanical Garden “Lama degli Ulivi” situated within Capitanio Stefano’s Plant Nursery, in Contrada Conghia, Monopoli.
We can definitely call it a work of art, a naturalistic path that is unique, magic, astronishing. It is located in an ancient Lama, a karstic depression typical of this area between hills and sea, created over the centuries and by the passing of water.
This one in particular, where the garden in situated, is rich in caves and still preserves ancient memories that time made even more precious: very old-dry stone walls, stone carved path and steps and above all two rocky churches. Remains of a lived nature characterized by a naturalistic path, which is unique in the World.
In this environment, not very far from different microclimates, it is possible to admire more than 2,000 species of plants coming from every corners of the world that grow together as in perfect and magic concert.
Some species of plants are native of the area, as those belonging to the Mediterannean maquis typical of the region, other from Australia, South Africa and South America. We can not forget then our centuries-old olive trees (brought here by the Greek 2500 years ago).It is as the plants of the five continents set their meeting point here.

Harmony is the password inside the Botanical Garden, because a garden, and this specific one in particular, is like a symphony: shapes that joint and compensate each other, colours, that heightened in their combination yellows, pink, violet, orange, cobalt blue and then the light and changing perfumes that that follow the visitor.
It is not to tell about this work of art. How is to possible to describe an Indian fig, with its thorny and reddish fruits and its cactus on witch is visible the shade of a bushy atriplex (most commonly known as saltbush) coming from North America.

Everything seems then to be partially covered by the shade of on olive tree. A few steps away then there are agaves and cactuses with their exotic charm.
You feel like being in the presence of the entire planet.
In the garden with its particular microclimates, you go from an arid earth with is typical plants, to violet carpets made of gaudy trichodiadema flowers (South Africa), onto leafy branches of boungainville flowers in full bloom (whose name derives from the man who discovered it in South America) with call its colours from pink to fuchsia and red. This Lama almost reaches almost the coast, with its windspet and salty habitat. This is where the white caper’s flowers completely bloom enabling its violet flaments to  stick out as fireworks: simple pureness that blossoms around here warming our hearts.

More than 2000 species

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