At the foot of La Concha, Marbella’s iconic mountain, and with privileged views of the Mediterranean Sea, the garden of Villa Verdi unfolds in the exclusive Sierra Blanca residential area as a landscaped journey that embraces the architecture of the villa.
Designed like a lookout, the garden is organized into two main areas: the entrance zone, at street level, and the main garden, centered around the pool. Both levels are connected by two lateral pathways, each with its own distinctive character.
Northeast Path: The Italian Ramp
On the northeast side, a gentle Italian ramp leads us through ferns, dianellas, philodendrons, dwarf pittosporum, and jasmine climbing the façades. This pathway guides visitors to a charming garden-orchard, where aligned lemon and orange trees blend with a small vegetable garden flanked by pomegranates, cypresses, myrtles, rosemary, and erigerons. The sound of a fountain accompanies the journey, enhanced by natural stone steps and gravel, evoking the spirit of a traditional Italian garden.
Southwest Path: The Studio Garden
On the opposite side, we access a small private garden connected to the villa’s studio through laurel hedges. To one side, a row of flowering crepe myrtles adds color and movement, inviting exploration of the main garden area around the pool.
Entrance Zone: Elegance and Order
At the entrance, a centuries-old olive tree stands as the centerpiece of the patio, surrounded by a structured and sculptural composition: boxwoods, rose bushes, and a large raised planter with aligned standard ligustrums, teucriums, dianellas, dichondra
‘silver’, and bougainvillea provide both structure and lush vegetation to this functional space.
Main Garden: Contemporary Mediterranean
The heart of the garden lies in the pool area, where the villa opens onto terraces that allow enjoyment of the surroundings year-round, with clear sea views.
The pool, featuring an expansive sunbathing platform, is flanked by four large corten steel planters housing sculptural olive trees, giving the ensemble a distinctive Mediterranean character.
A wide central lawn is framed by metrosideros hedges and beds of grasses and perennials that add texture and movement to the space. On the perimeter, brachychitons, pepper trees, and leylandii form a green screen, ensuring privacy and comfort.
Villa Verdi is a landscape proposal that reinterprets the classic Mediterranean garden through a contemporary lens, where vegetation, pathways, and views integrate to create a unique aesthetic, functional, and emotional experience.
