The paper reports the results of a 5-year study aimed at identifying tree and shrub species suitable to set up a phenological garden in a Mediterranean area and at defining and characterisingthe pheno-phases to be observed.
The survey was carried out in the experimental Phenological
grden of Oristano (central-west Sardinia) and allowed the identification of 10 suitable species out of 15 and the definition of 41 pheno-phases