Press
Stuart’s projects have featured in a number of leading publications. In this section you can download and read the articles in PDF format.
Stuart in the media…
Monty Don’s Italian Gardens
The Best Gardens in Italy – A Traveller’s Guide
The long drive up to Torrecchia unfurls along a nut avenue and then through meadows of wild flowers, backed by misty hills. The view opens out onto….
Italy’s Private Gardens – An inside view
La Torrecchia was once a melancholy thing – a ruined castle surrounded by a medieval village, deserted, forgotten and covered in ivy…
Monty Don, Great gardens of Italy
My connection with Torrecchia is tenuous but personal. When I was beginning to make my own garden in Herefordshire in the mid-1990s I rang Pershore College to see if they had any students keen to do part-time work for me…
Dream Garden, Homes and Gardens magazine, August 2015
Article in Homes and Gardens magazine where Stuart discusses the design principals in an enclosed garden at Torrecchia Vecchia…
Paradise Regrown, Telegraph Magazine
I didn’t speak a word of Italian, not even ‘ciao’, said Stuart Barfoot, describing his nervous anticipation as he headed to Torrecchia in 1998 to take up the job of head gardener…
Magiche ispirazioni – magical inspiration
Il Giaroino di Torrccehia è una creatura molto amata e ben accudita. Come ogni forte personalità ha diverse chiavi di lettura. li suo tema natale è legato al paesaggio che lo circonda…
