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Paolo Pajrone ((pronounced pay-RO-neh) born June 7, 1941, Turin, Italy) is an Italian garden designer and landscaper.
Pejrone’s life as a gardener began in January of 1970. A restless, dissatisfied 30-year-old architect with a secret passion for plants, he had heard Russell Page was in town planning the Agnellis’ garden down the road from his parents’ home in Turin. He landed himself an invitation to pass by and meet the master gardener in person.
A few weeks later, having left his job at an architectural studio in Turin, he flew to London where Page whisked him into the UK’s horticultural scene, taking him to the Chelsea Flower Show, introducing him to French botanist Roger de Vilmorin as well as grand British garden owners and allowing him the rare privilege of working as an apprentice in his studio. That stint proved to be brief but seminal.
After studying architecture in London, he moved to Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s to work as an intern for Roberto Burle Marx. “They were undoubtedly my greatest mentors,” he says.
He has created some 800 gardens across Europe for clients ranging from the Agnellis to Valentino and Giancarlo Giammetti to Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan and from France to Greece, and England to Saudi Arabia, around villas and castles, hotels and universities, banks, factories, and in piazzas and parks.

His latest book, entitled I dubbi del giardiniere: Storie di slow gardening (Doubts of a Gardener: Stories in Slow Gardening), was published recently, and follows success with best-selling titles including In the Garden You’re Never Alone and A Real Gardener Never Gives Up, which sold over 100,000 copies. Arguably the finest Pejrone title of all is Chronicles from a Garden, about his own private home and garden Bramafam, which is situated high above the small town of Revello in Piedmont.

He resides in the Bramafam garden, near Revello (in the province of Cuneo), Italy after inheriting the property in 1992.