Franco Giorgetta, a landscape architect with a passion for plants, flowers, and gardens, founded and directed the Advanced Course in Landscape Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Milan. Several writings and exhibitions, including: I boschi della Valtellina sono i Giardini Pubblici di Milano, Elogio della robinia, Sulla necessità di eliminare i giardini storici, an essay on the problems of garden restoration for the Superintendency of Milan; the exhibition I boschi di Maria Teresa at the XVIII Milan Triennale, as well as those with Virgilio Vercelloni at the Sforza Castle (Erbacce in mostra, Tulipani in mostra, Camelie in mostra, Rose in mostra). A lifelong member of the Royal Horticultural Society and the Alpine Garden Society, he also serves on the Council of the Lombardy Horticultural Society and on the Jury of the Monza International Rose Competition.