Thirty years of landscape: our story, from the first geranium at Villa Corsi Salviati
06 Novembre 2025
Some stories don’t begin with a business plan. Ours started with a three-wheeled Ape van, a load of geraniums, and Florence right before our eyes. It was 1996. Lorenzo and Riccardo shared something more than a friendship: they shared a way of looking at the world. A gaze capable of seeing in a neglected garden a landscape waiting to exist. In those years, delivering and arranging plants around the city was their way of turning a passion into a craft. It wasn’t about entrepreneurship — it was about nature. Thirty years on, we’re still here. And that same light in our eyes hasn’t changed.
From an Ape van full of flowers to Villa Corsi Salviati
Those early years taught us to listen. To listen to our clients, of course, but above all to listen to the places themselves. A garden is not a neutral space: it has a history, a microclimate, a character. We understood this early on, and so — even before picking up a spade — we learned to draw with watercolours. They were simple sketches, almost naive, but they already told the story of what we wanted to create: not a decoration, but a living landscape. Over time, our projects grew. From private gardens on the Florentian hills to the grounds of hospitality venues, all the way to major interventions on historic gardens such as Villa Corsi Salviati, Villa La Magia and Palazzo Pfanner. Every project brought with it new challenges, new plants, new responsibilities.
Landscape as a language
One of the questions we’re asked most often is: how does one of your projects come to life? It doesn’t start from a catalogue. It begins with a walk through the place, a conversation with the client, an afternoon spent watching how the light falls across a meadow or how the wind moves through the hedges. Landscape is a language, and we’ve been speaking it for thirty years. Every green space we design — whether a residential garden, a hotel park, a rooftop garden on an urban terrace, or a swimming pool set within a landscape — is born from the balance between the soul of the place and the desires of those who inhabit it. We never force nature. We know it, we respect it, we follow its lead.
What we have learned in thirty years
Green spaces change. The climate changes, species change, clients’ needs change, and techniques change. We have grown alongside all of it. Today our work encompasses a complete chain: from design to the laying of turf, from masonry work and paving to automated irrigation systems, from the pruning of tall trees using tree climbing techniques to phytosanitary care using organic products. We also tend to gardens we didn’t create ourselves, because passion doesn’t stop at the boundaries of your own project. Above all, we have learned that sustainability is not a trend: it is simply the right way to work with nature. The use of organic products, respect for ecological balances, the recovery of rainwater for irrigation — these are not marketing choices, they are choices of conscience.
Thirty years of roots, and still so much sky
An anniversary is never just a looking back. It is above all a way of understanding where you are headed. What we carry with us at this milestone is the certainty that beauty endures. It endures in the gardens we planted that are now grown trees. It endures in the fountains we restored that still trace the air with their sound. It endures in the lawns where someone runs every morning without knowing how many hours of work lie beneath their feet. We are Atelier Dimensione Verde. We were born in Florence, grew up in Tuscany, and every garden we have created carries with it a piece of our story. Thank you to all those who have chosen us over these thirty years. We’ll see you in the next garden.