The Overgrown Dream of Alessandro Poss. This photo was taken in what was once the Garden of Eden of Lake Maggiore. Villa Poss in Verbania was famous for its spectacular park that stretched in terraces down to the lake shore. In the 1930s, industrialist Alessandro Poss created a botanical paradise here, filled with exotic plants. Today, nature has reclaimed the grounds with brutal force. Where gardeners once tended every twig, an impenetrable jungle now reigns