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When you think of Tuscany what do you picture? Rolling hills draped with vineyards, neat rows of gnarled olive trees, pretty stone villas glimpsed through lines of sculptural pines and pointed cypress trees, oak laden hilltops where khaki clad locals hunt for boar, ridges with dusty jagged open mines bitten into their sides?
Yes Tuscany does have all these things and they are all demonstrations of the abundance which the Tuscan landscape has to offer. However if you visit, I would advise that you don’t just let your wide-angle gaze rest there. If you look little closer you will see that these bounties are not merely confined to the wider landscape but they can also be found in almost every Tuscan garden.
Vegetables, fruits and herbs cling to walls, rest on window ledges and form loose higgledy –piggledy boundary treatments.
Vines hang from pergolas in front gardens, over car ports and outside cafes and bars.
Olive orchards are not just found in the surround agricultural fields but also on terraced central town gardens.
You can tell there is no ‘what will the neighbours think if I turn my front garden into a veg-patch’ here! I guess the only resentment may occur if your courgettes are better than theirs.
Well I am inspired! So far most of my food growing is confined to my allotment and back garden, but I have a nice little patch of grass at the front of my house going spare so watch this space…
