ATELIER BOTANICO
Atelier botanico is my dream taking shape, the culmination of all my past experiences and at the same time the starting point of a new journey.
Here everything speaks about me.
My greatest passions, my values, my sacrifices. The project was born from the desire to spread the culture of perennial herbaceous plants in Italy, proposing something unusual and spontaneous for terraces, something that lasts over time, that adapts to the environment in which it lives with low water requirements and little maintenance.
perennial herbaceous plants
are wild nature
tamed to live in the city.
Plants that are reborn every year following the change of seasons, a form of modern and sustainable gardening, respecting the rhythms of nature.
Atelier botanico is my space for research and experimentation, where I study plants in certain contexts, in order to select them and offer customers tailor-made solutions and arrangements. My goal is to offer a ground-breaking product that improves our cities and the life of the people living in them.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
My name is Erika,
I was born in Parma countryside
At 16 I left for an exchange student program in Denmark, a country that brought me closer to the concept of sustainable everyday life, reuse, recycling, and the idea of a plastic-free life. I graduated in Environmental Architecture and in Green Areas and Landscape Design. I have worked in various fields of architecture and garden design, creating public and private projects. I often traveled to Northern Europe to discover gardens designed almost exclusively with herbaceous perennial plants, and I fell in love with them. Today I live in the province of Lecco, in a small hill town, between woods and countryside. A return to the origins, albeit in a different context, after having lived in many Italian and foreign cities for study and work. I have two children, Timo and Sofi: together with their father Daniele, who is a gardener, I try to teach them our values, our passion for plants, for the landscape, and the respect for the environment.