Taccuino per un cercatore di alberi. Giardini Botanici Hanbury

(Notebook for a Tree Seeker. Hanbury Botanical Gardens)

by Tiziano Fratus and Mauro Giorgio Mariotti, 2011 - Edizioni della Meridiana, Florence 100/120 pp, illustrated volume

This volume offers readers a number of guided tours of the reserve, botanical notes, new measurements of the trunks, a list of the largest and oldest trees, botanical data sheets on the most significant specimens, and, in the appendix, a guide to the great trees to visit on the French Riviera and in western Liguria. A tribute to the International Year of Forests.

language: Italian

La Mortola in the footsteps of Thomas Hanbury

Moore A., 2004 - Cadogan, London.

The author recounts the extraordinary life and passion for horticulture of Thomas Hanbury, telling us, through a series of letters and documents from the Hanbury family, how a young man born in Clapham, London, came to create one of the most important private plant collections of his generation, which has now become one of the world's best-known botanical gardens for acclimatisation.
Alasdair Moore is a gardener and writes regularly for Garden Illustrated and contributes to the Independent on Saturday and the Daily Telegraph.
Cadogan Guides, Highlands House, 165 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London SW19 1NE. www.cadoganguides.com

Available in English only.

Riviera Nature Notes

Edited by Rob Cassy, 2004 - Classic travel writing. Signal Books, Oxford.

Reprint of the book first published in 1903 by Sir Thomas Hanbury; it is an account of the most common plants and animals of the Riviera and the Maritime Alps.
Rob Cassy, who edited this edition, is a garden designer and horticultural consultant and writes about gardening for The Times.
Published by Signal Books Limited, 36 Minster Road, Oxford, OX4 1LY; www.signalbooks.co.uk

Available in English only.

I Giardini Botanici Hanbury alla Mortola.

Guide turistiche ed arte n° 232 Collana Liguria regione inaspettata. Sagep, Genova. Mazzino F., 1999 

Language: Italian

Thomas Hanbury e il suo giardino (and his garden)

Muratorio M. and Kiernam G., 1995 - Tipolitografia S. Giuseppe, Arma di Taggia.

This volume is largely devoted to Thomas Hanbury, retracing the key stages of his life. It is the result of painstaking work to reorganise the Hanbury archive, held at the headquarters of the Institute of Ligurian Studies, and analysis of the extensive collection of family documents.

Text both in Italian and English

The Hanbury Botanical Gardens

Gastaldo P. and Profumo P., 1995 - Allemandi & C., Torino.

This book is primarily a collection of visions, a companion for visitors, a friendly guide that accompanies even the uninitiated reader to an appropriate understanding of this enchanting and privileged place.

96 pages, 65 colour illustrations.
Available in Italian and English.

An earthly paradise. The Hanbury Gardens at Mortola

Mazzino F., 1994 - Sagep, Genova.

In particular, it is a landscape analysis of the relationship between the shape of the site and the structure of the gardens, aimed at identifying the potential and constraints that the natural and agricultural landscape have exerted in defining the project, a historical-landscape analysis, semiological analysis and analysis of the peculiarities and characteristics that have made these gardens unique among the many created in the same years along the Ligurian Riviera and the French Riviera.
Francesca Mazzino is a landscape architect and collaborates on the course of Landscape Design and at the School of Specialisation of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Genoa.

Book available in Italian and English.

Hanbury: History of a Garden

Curated by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities - Superintendence for Architectural Heritage and Landscape of Liguria.

This is a journey through the garden via interviews with members of the Hanbury family and people connected to its history.

Videotape also available in English.