When budgets are drawn up for renovations and restorations, gardens are often at the bottom of the list. This is a terrible shame as you are likely to spend alot of your time enjoying the outside of your house. On the whole, Italian have very different ideas about gardens to us, their giardina inglese often comprises of an impressively fenced postage stamp of manicured lawn filled with oversized statuary and what ever they can cram in from the garden centre. We all have different garden requirements based on land- size and steepness; maintenance- high or low; use- recreational or working and of course budget. Often creating a garden means starting from scratch and this requires a lot of vision or professional help like that offered below. For a fee, consultants can advise, plan or totally oversee the creation of your garden. In a country with very different soil and climate to home, professional advice is strongly advisable if you wish to avoid expensive mistakes. They also know and understand the feasibility and potential of landscaping which can miraculously transform a garden.