The garden was designed by Giovanni Battista Filippo Basile in 1851 as a vogue style in the second half of the nineteenth century, ie not creating a measuring and engineering space (so-called Italian garden) but after natural forms and land irregularities give the air more natural
creating an English garden (Hence the name "English Garden").
To make the atmosphere more exciting and more exotic, according to the dictates of fashion in that period, plants were introduced from all over the world, selected in collaboration with the botanist of Palermo Vincenzo Taino (1791 - 1856), at the time "Palermo Botanical Garden