[2] These gardens incorporated the famous twelve palms of Madonna della Ruota, celebrated by Scheffel in his poem of 1856, entitled "Near Death" and also painted by Hermann Nestel and Friederich von Kleudgen.

[3] In 1877, Ludwig Winter, also created a plant nursery of several thousand square meters between the Arziglia, the old Bordighera fisherman's beach, and the Valley of the Sasso river.

The German botanist loved the palm trees and quickly became one of the greatest experts for the acclimatization, the propagation and the transplanting of large specimens.

The land was divided into large flower beds that allowed Winter to present its customers with the concepts he might have implanted in their own gardens.

[5] Winter, who was always looking for new ways to enhance the local heritage, also decided to open a major shop of plants and flowers in via Vittorio Emanuele, close to the Church of the Immaculate Conception or Terrasanta.