The painting became part of the artistic heritage of the Capuchin Cultural Heritage in 1968 following the Ferrandi bequest, and is exhibited on the second floor of the Capuchin Museum. The place portrayed is the Giardino alla Colma, the garden of the family home in Colma di Rosignano, in Monferrato, where the artist alternated his residence with Milan.

The garden was a privileged place for experimentation with an en plein air painting in search of a greater truth of light, color and shadows, moving within the divisionist artistic phenomenon that, in addition to Morbelli himself, saw among its exponents Segantini, Pellizza by Volpedo and Previati.

After some experimentation in the years 1880-1890, Morbelli increases the production of "pure landscapes" starting from 1909. They are landscapes without figures but with elements of geometric scansion of space (benches, shaped shrubs, terracing) that give structural and chromatic coordinates of relevant bright contrast. The Giardino alla Colma, together with other chronologically close paintings, ( Angolo di Giardino , 1910, Giannone di Novara Collection and Angolo di giardino , 1912, Musei Civici di Roma) offers an example of strong luminosity translated into a vibrant texture of colors, for whose execution Morbelli had long since adopted a series of brushes of different consistency and different workmanship. In fact, with these brushes, he scissors the tips of the bristles to obtain more regular streak effects, while at the same time he also scratched the surface with a kind of rigid-tipped brush to enhance the contrast between the colors.

The main element of the composition is the balancing of horizontal rhythms with the tree on the right. Pointillism skilfully applied to small lines in the garden path becomes thin pattering in the line of the hills on the horizon, thus obtaining an elegantly decorative vibrating of warm and cold lights.