of Case Basse is a continuously evolving project.
At Case Basse, Gianfranco Soldera renovates buildings, restoring the original architecture
of Tuscan farmhouses and saving the dry-stone walls where birds, small mammals, insects,
and so forth find shelter and a place to reproduce. For the same purpose, he places
artificial nests to attract animals in the hope that they become permanent residents, and
sets up beehives.He saves the ancient abandoned olive trees and plants other fruit trees.
He is developing a plan for a botanical wood. He is building a man-made pond and small
lake.
Signora Graziella, a keen botanist and landscape architect, searches the world over for antique roses to add to her much admired collection (such as the Noisette rose, "La Biche", which she found after more than two years).
From the "Sunkissed" to the "Wooded" gardens as she calls them, where roses, perennial bushes, and rare bulbous plants of exceptional beauty flourish, a "White Garden" has emerged, one which is highly popular with nocturnal pollinators.
Olive trees, cypresses and centuries-old oak forests create a backdrop for the gardens, harmoniously set within the indigenous Mediterranean scrub.
