In Pompeii the house of the Botanical Garden opens to the public

The house presented a residential area in the north-eastern part of the structure, while in the south there was a large garden that houses the botanical garden, which today gives it its name. It is a green area of ​​over 800 square meters where a set of representative species are collected that were already grown in the ancient city: fruit trees, sacred plants, medicines, horticultural. Fourth in Ars Topiary is re -proposed, a drawing in the last century with the replacement of the hedges in Mirto with plants of Melograno Nano. In the second garden there are flower beds with archaic growth methods (reinforced shoulders and pertuse), especially used are tinctor, aromatic, horticultural, officinal.

On March 14, it will be possible to discover the different botanical species present in the garden and participate in a guided route entitled “Pruning of the Green: Respect for the forms in the landscape” thanks to the visits organized by the boys of the Il Tulipano association, together with the officials of the Green Treatment Area of ​​the Park, Claudia Buonanno, Crescenzo Mazzuocolo, Halinka Di Lorenzo and the first gardener and restorer of the historic green, Maurizio Bartolini. This activity in particular is part of the project of the Park of Archeology and Social Agriculture that features children with autism and or cognitive disabilities engaged in concrete activities on the archaeological site and which, started for some years, has now merged into the first “social and cultural farm parvula domus” within an ‘archaeological area in Italy, enrolled in the Refas Region of the social farms of the Campania Region. The project is part of the different actions put in place by the Archaeological Park, in collaboration with several partners, for the management of the large natural and landscape heritage of the site.