The garden is not a piece read out, (possibly) does not surprise, is not filled up with symbols, but intends to illustrate a mechanism in a practical and non-didactic manner. The energy gathered by the large wind driven pump makes the water flow, and it spills in from one tank to the next the settling, filtered by the efficient iris and reed roots. Water becomes clear, transparent, and irresistible as it submerges to feed back into the cycle. This linear, at times rural, garden has become part and parcel of a luxuriant landscape: all atmospheres count now more than ever, and we wish to appreciate without hiding it by overdesigning. It is an essential architecture, in the shade of the crowns of the plane trees, skimmed by the aralia foliage, a range of reeds and arboreal and plain ferns. A deliberate non-philological but plausible selection of plants, mostly if not exclusively consisting of leaves. Cloaked in water mint, a few water lilies and large clumps of papyrus plants look up from the tanks: they are nothing but simple square tanks, a bit like cisterns or troughs. We are evoking what in Sicily that has sadly become quite rare, a parched island enjoying an oasis, the Ciane River spring close to Syracuse, or the Arethusa spring in Ogygia that can inspire us. Such fragile environments are the ones about to turn into optical illusion. No poisons, just the soft sound of the wind, the whisper of water, the night song of the nightingales and the croaking frogs: a small homemade example to trigger our memories.

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Paolo Pejrone, was born in Piedmont in 1941. He graduated as an architect from the Turin Polytechnic and specializes in garden design. He trained in Russel Page’s British Landscape Architect andBrazilian Roberto Burle Marx’s, both founders  of two very well-known garden architecture movements. For more than fifty years, Pejrone has been creating private gardens and public parks throughout Europe, Asia, and America. His most famous projects include the Agnelli Family Villar Perosa Park, designing and caring for the Monastic Green Gardens of the Holy Cross Roman Basilica in Jerusalem. He is vice President of the Italian International Dendrology Society, founder of the 'Associazione Italiana di Architettura del Paesaggio (Italian Landscape Architects Association), President and founder of the Accademia piemontese del giardino (Piedmontese Garden Academy), creator of the FAI exhibition Tre giorni per il giardino (Three days for the Garden) at the Castle Masino. He has authored essays on gardens and cooperated with Condé Nast and many specialized journals and magazines.