How bizarre! Bizzarrie toscane : “Digitated lemons and other curious fruits with strange deformities have always been known in Italian as “ bizzarrie”. The finer the citrus collection, the more bizzarrie it contained . The Medici family’s collection in Florence was undisputably the finest in Europe. Its history dates back to 1537 when Cosimo I…
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Tuscany Lemon Gardens
Tuscany Lemon Gardens I was born in Siena, in a house just outside the historic city centre, with a big garden. I was used to seeing terracotta vases with lemon plants. They were part of the house, I never asked where they came from, nor did I notice that, in winter, they disappeared from the…