Not sure if this is the right forum for this or not, but here goes...
DH and I got back about a week ago now from our 10-day whirlwind tour of Italy, and WOW what a trip it was! Since we have never been there at all before, we hit the major tourist high points: Rome, Florence, Chianti (prime wine country in Tuscany), Venice and Sorrento/Amalfi Coast. I, of course, went picture-taking crazy, including about a billion of all the great gardens and windowboxes we saw. After much hemming and hawing, I managed to cut it down to the top 30 botanical photos of the trip.
So if you're interested, grab some of your favorite beverage (a morning cappuccino or afternoon vino, if you want to savor the local flavor ☺) and take a look! (I should apologize in advance, though--we still have people working on the house, so I may have to post in bits and pieces. I'll let you know when they're all up, though. The last one will be, literally, dessert...)
Here are the Pines of Rome, made famous in music by Respighi. These are actually the ones in the gardens of the Villa Borghese.
