The meadow is left to grow wild, so as you walk you can smell mint or other herbs. The slope is also natural and follows the gradient of the hillside. This is the first characteristic of English gardens, which adapt to nature without disrupting it. In fact, this part of the garden was not laid out on three levels as the one to the right was.

During the years when this garden was being built, there was a lively debate about the English garden ongoing in Venice (this area was part of the Venetian republic at that time). The debate intensified around 1840 when the idea of the natural garden and the use of exotic plants took over.

Even before, the French garden was not viewed well by Venetian culture. Here in Veneto, it was not possible to have properties of this size. The fact that the garden was a symbol of an absolute monarchy contrasted strongly in an oligarchic republic. The Italian garden has its own strong cultural identity.

The cypress avenue that intersects the belvedere avenue marks a point of emptiness, in an alternation of full and empty spaces. As in architecture, the hornbeam grove represents fullness, whilst here the emptiness is above the 'exotic' grove, which is also a point of fullness. This avenue is the axis of conjunction between the pond and the hedge theatre’s seating sections.