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A botanical route in the oldest public garden in the city.

To give those who frequent the Guastalla Garden the opportunity to get to know part of this arboreal heritage, the Volunteer Ecological Guards identified a botanical route in 2005.

The chosen trees and shrubs were equipped with tags bearing their names, fixed to the trunk at eye level with a stainless steel nail that does not damage the tree, as is used in the most important botanical gardens such as Villa Taranto in Verbania Pallanza and Kew Gardens in London. The shrubs were accompanied by tags positioned on a support fixed in the ground near them.

The label was defined following examples created and consulting botanists. A simple, linear approach was preferred, which reports the common name of the plant followed by the botanical name, the descriptor, the species and the origin.

The sheets describing the characteristics of the 41 plants chosen from the trees and shrubs present in the garden have been collected in a publication created by the Zone 1 Council in collaboration with the Green Area, Agriculture and Urban Furnishings and the Volunteer Ecological Guards, which can be downloaded from this page in PDF format with the route map.