Company - Vivai Guagno

The Vivai Guagno was founded in 1982 in Santa Giustina in Colle (Padua) by the current entrepreneur Ivano Guagno. Nowadays it is a leading company in Europe in the production of forest and ornamental plants. From the beginning, Ivano Guagno visits the best nurseries in Europe in order to have a good knowledge of this sector. During this tour he gets directly in touch with experts and every kind of company. The knowledge he gained during this experience, his creativity and the help of his wife Donatella, and later of the sons Riccardo and Gloria, make the Vivai Guagno a well-known brand all around Europe. Since 2000, the company acquires a new production site in Comacchio (Ferrara), where the environment is the ideal for the cultivation of plants in root ball.

Cultivations

High quality is our daily goal, from the start of the production to the customer service. We rigorously select both seeds and young plants, estimate the perfect planting distances to induce a balanced growth, use fertilisers which don’t affect changes in physical properties of the soil, and monitor plants’ health by pruning them and taking preventive measures.

trees

SHRUBS

YOUNG PLANTS

ground cover

NATURAL FORMS

CLIMBING

SHAPES / TOPIARY ART

ERBACEA PERENNE

our nurseries

S. Giustina in Colle

Contacts

The production site in Santa Giustina in Colle is the early headquarter. The company managed to satisfy the increasing demand, renovating itself and extending, year after year, the surface of the nursery up to 20 hectares. From the very beginning, the company is devoted to the production of young plants in forest container and pots, which were intended to reforest the extra-urban areas. 100% Made in Italy, the headquarter fulfills the needs of every customers and provide plants to the site based in Comacchio.

Comacchio

Contacts

The production site in Comacchio has more than 500 cultivated species along 1,000 km of rows on an area of 200 hectares. This site is surrounded by the fascinating environment of Delta del Po (Po Delta), which is the ideal place for the cultivation of plants in root ball, indeed the soil is composed of sand, silt and clay and there is always a gentle breeze. The combination of this peculiarities makes sure that the plants are very strong and particularly resistant to the transplantation.

to sum up

200 hectares of nursery

500 produced species

1000 km of plant rows

4M cultivated plants

As a fast growing tree, the Vivai Ivano Guagno is getting bigger thanks to a unique set of skills, knowledge, and passion. Every day we improve our services to guarantee high quality standards and a wide variety of products.

Certification

The plants are regulated by the Legislative Decree 151/2000

The plants are regulated by the Legislative Decree 214/2005 where provided for by law

The forest plants are regulated by the Legislative Decree 386/2003

The Vivai Ivano Guagno is a company certified UNI EN ISO 9001: 2008 since 1999