3 Gardens to visit in spring with Firenzecard

Spring in Florence is synonymous with parks and gardens in bloom, palettes of a thousand colors, with inebriating scents, where camellias, tulips, wisteria, peonies, roses, etc. awaken and bloom.  Italian gardens, English gardens, gardens embellished with fountains or sculptures.
Today we propose 4 gardens where you can admire spring in all its beauty:

1. Villa Bardini Garden. Here, three varieties of wisteria give us in April the magic of a path with shades of lilac, violet, purple, and pink, overlooking one of the most beautiful views of Florence. The Bardini Garden embodies seven centuries of both Florentine and gardening history, of innovation and change in botany and in fashions, and it combines three areas that differ in era and style: the Italian garden, with its magnificent Baroque staircase; the English wood, a rare example of an Anglo-Chinese garden with its exotic plants; the agricultural park with its new fruit orchard and its magnificent wisteria pergola. The Garden currently houses some two hundred pieces of sculpture, thirteen fountains, three grottoes, a superb “fountain wall” and a botanical collection chiefly made up of centuries-old trees such as holm oaks and phyllireas, olive trees, a vast number of hortensias, roses, camelias, azaleas and, of course, the splendid wisteria pergola.

2. Boboli Gardens. Here, spring is a fascinating combination of art and nature. It is no coincidence that Boboli is one of the oldest and most important examples of an Italian garden in the world, so much so that it inspired the gardens of the Palace of Versailles. 45,000 acres of green space with fountains, sculptures, and caves. Here among other flowers we can admire a collection of Antique and Modern Roses with 156 varieties. The Medici were the first to take care of its arrangement, creating the model of an Italian garden that became an example for many European courts. The vast green area, divided in a regular way, constitutes a true open-air museum, populated by ancient and Renaissance statues, adorned with grottos, first of all the very famous one created by Bernardo Buontalenti, and large fountains, such as that of Neptune and the Ocean.

3. “Giardino dei Semplici” Botanical Garden. Spring is the best season to visit the Giardino dei Semplici, the third oldest Botanical Garden in the world. A true riot of colors and scents, with its heritage of 9,000 plant specimens. In this living open-air museum, each season is able to reserve elements of interest and curiosity for the visitor, from the neophyte to the expert. The botanical year in fact begins in February with the early flowering of bulbous plants and then continues with the explosion of colors and shapes of the spring-flowering collections such as azaleas, roses and spontaneous orchids. Summer, on the other hand, is the season of hydrangeas and tropical aquatic plants (water lilies, blue lotus of the Nile, lotus flowers, etc.) that thrive in the outdoor pools, but also the season in which to admire the domestic vegetable garden and the medicinal species in their maximum luxuriance. The warm colors of the foliage of the over 150 tree species present, including broadleaf and evergreen species, make autumn one of the most fascinating seasons in the Garden.