The Giusti garden at Verona strikes yet another chord, a motive not of sweet or sombre or tragic, but of intensely solemn loveliness. Driving across the bridge along a dull and dusty street, the carriage stops at a stuccoed house with painted architecture, not much better than the rest. But when the heavy entrance doors are swung back, an enchanted vista holds the traveller spell-bound – the deep, refreshing green of an avenue of cypresses half a millennium old, leading to a precipice crowned by the foliage of a higher garden. For pure sensation there is nothing in Italy equal to this first glimpse through the Giusti gateway. It is but the nature of a single tree, yet presented with such mastery that the traveller is inclined to doubt the evidence of his eyes. ‘Can it be true’ he asks himself, ‘can anything in the world be so beautiful? Isola Bella, again, is a thing by itself, not a garden, but a mirage in a lake of dreams: a great galleon with flower-laden terraces and fantastic pinnacles which has anchored here against a background of purple mountains on its return to the realm of rococo. Sir George Sitwell wrote the essay, On the Making of Gardens: An essay on the making of gardens; being a study of old Italian gardens, of the nature of beauty, and the principles involved in garden design, in Italy in 1909. English Garden Lounging was founded by Mary Mc Caughey, a fine art curator and DJ. English Garden Lounging offers a specialist professional service to artists, galleries, museums and collectors in the presentation of art and the production of art exhibitions, projects and Lounges. Contact: by e-mail mary@englishgardenlounging.com or by telephone +44 (0) 20 89644092, +44 0 7931 425107