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The heir of the Calvinos' botanical experience was Libereso Guglielmi who worked for them in his youth.

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Among the most popular places for British travellers were Bordighera and San Remo that became little "colonies" of the British kingdom

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in 1909 also the Italian Queen Margherita di Savoia, a flower lover, visited the gradern

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The garden soon became so popular that in 1882 Queen Victoria and her daughter Princess Beatrice visited it to admire its beauties.

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In December 1868 Hanbury employed as head gardener the botanist and garden designer Ludwig Winter who transformed the garden in one of the most important botanical collection of the world with plants from all over the globe.

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Hanbury visited Europe between 1866 and 1869, and in 1867 travelled on the Cote d'Azur. He saw and purchased the abandoned villa of the Orengo di Roccasterone family at Mortola, where he planned to make a botanical garden with the help of his brother Daniel.

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Between the XVII and the XIX century a lot of young men and later women from the Uk and America travelled across Europe to complete their education. The Riviera was one of the most popular places especially for its climate and amazing landscape.

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Citrus fruit at Hanbury Botanical Gardens

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Hanbury Botanical Gardens - Citrus collection

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Sir Thomas Hanbury (21 June 1832 – 9 March 1907) was an English businessman, gardener and philanthropist. He became exremely rich thanks to the trade of tea and silk form China to Europe.

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In this picture you can see little Italo Calvino with his parents who were botanists. They created the first Experimental Institute of Floriculture at Villa Meridiana, Sanremo, where they tried to acclimatize exotic plants from all over the world

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The first school of floriculture was opend in Ospedaletti at the beginning of 1890 thanks to Cavalier Isnard. It was the beginning of a great tradition: since then the economy of the Riviera was based both on flowers and on tourism.