There is no more gifted creator in the world than nature, which has created truly amazing and wonderful masterpieces around the world. In the process of observing natural beauties, it is simply breathtaking, but parks and gardens created by human hands deserve no less excitement.
Today, botanical gardens, small parks and giant palace and park complexes created by talented gardeners or designers are accessible to millions of people from all over the world. Some representatives of landscape art are presented in our article.
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens
Location: London. Great Britain.
Kew Gardens covers more than 130 ha. This huge complex of greenhouses and gardens was founded in 1759 by Princess Augusta, the mother of King George III.
Kew Gardens - incredibly beautiful gardens made in the classical English style, amaze the imagination with the number of species of plants represented: there are about 50 thousand of them. There are also some famous buildings that are considered attractions, such as the Pagoda, Palm House, Water Lily House, Alpine House. And there are absolutely incredible structures - the largest compost pile in Europe and the famous alley above the treetops.
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Keukenhof
Location: Netherlands.
Every spring, the gardens attract tourists and guests from all over the world with their unique beauty. In this colorful piece of paradise, more than 7 million flowers bloom - tulips, daffodils and hyacinths. Visitors can enjoy the beauty and then relax in one of the many restaurants or cafes in the Keukenhof gardens. Boat trips and cycling are also popular here.
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Xuan Nong Nooch
Location: Thailand.
The garden was founded in 1980. The Nong Nooch Garden is an unusual little paradise for tourists. This beautiful exotic garden contains the largest private collection of plants in general, and palm trees in particular. In addition, visitors to Xuan Nong Nooch can enjoy various types of orchids, from the flowering of which they are simply breathtaking. Here you will be invited to visit various shows and spectacular events, Ms. Nong Nooch even has shows with elephants.
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Gardens of Versailles
Location: France.
The Versailles Garden, the pearl of a beautiful palace complex. Louis XIV founded this garden in 1661. It was designed in a classic French style by landscape architect Andre Lenotre. The garden is located on the territory of 800 hectares.
The Versailles Garden is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. More than 6 million tourists visit this garden annually to admire its beauty. On the territory of the garden in the warm season there are beautiful fountains, each of which is a work of art.
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Butchart Garden
Location: Ontario. Canada
This garden (Butchart Gardens) is the brainchild of Robert Pym Butchart and his wife Jenny. They moved to Owen Sound in Ontario to explore the rich limestone deposits in the region. The hobby for gardening of this married couple began with a small garden in front of the house, which later became a famous international tourist center.
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Desert Botanical Garden
Location: Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
Founded in 1937 by the Arizona Cactus communities and local flora lovers, this garden currently has at least 21,000 plant species, including 139 rare or endangered species. The garden is considered the pride of the inhabitants of Phoenix and is a popular tourist destination in this region.
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Garden Yu Yuan
Location: Shanghai, China.
Yu Yuan Garden is a famous classical Chinese garden. Work on the construction of the garden was completed in 1577 by an officer of the Ming Dynasty named Pan Yunduan. He built a garden to please his father, but he did not live to see the end of almost 20 years of construction. The name of the garden in Chinese means "joy" or "leisurely rest."
The garden area is only 4 hectares, but the number of attractions that are in it is not proportional to size. Each corner is a small piece with samples of Chinese culture.
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Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden
Location: Florida, USA.
In Fairchild's tropical botanical garden, a huge number of different tropical plant species grow. Here you can find samples of groups of plants brought from different parts of the globe, for example, South Florida, ocean islands, tropical Africa, the Caribbean and Madagascar.
On the territory of the garden, there is a leading research center for the study of palm trees with more than 70 years of history.
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Garden of Cosmic Reflections
Location: Scotland.
The creation of the Garden of Cosmic Thoughts by Charles Jenks was inspired by fractals and black holes, he tried to combine science, mathematics, sculpture and landscape design. The garden is unique. There is no plant wealth here, but there are mathematical formulas and scientific phenomena reflected in conditions that skillfully combine natural features, artificial symmetry and curves.
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Majorelle Garden
Location: Morocco
The elegant African Majorelle garden is decorated in a surprisingly beautiful blue color, which gives the garden a unique, oriental flavor. The garden was created by French artist Jacques Majorelle in the 1920s, but was later bought out by the famous fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent. This garden also houses the Islamic Museum of Art in Marrakech, whose collection contains North African textiles by Saint Laurent, paintings by Majorelle and much more.
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Florence Boboli Gardens
Location: Italy.
The most worthy of visiting the Florentine palace is the Palazzo Pitti. Decorated with rough materials, the three-story palace, located on a hill, creates an simply impressive sight.
The gardens got their name thanks to the names of landowners. Cosimo Medici, who later married Eleanor of Toledo, acquired the palace in 1549. After the wedding, the palace is rebuilt, a courtyard is created, where the most beautiful Renaissance courtyard was built. Along the perimeter of this courtyard are the magnificent Boboli Gardens, which are characterized by direct avenues leading to secluded grottoes.
Trees go well with statues, fountains and lawns. The courtyard flows into the park with the Artishokov fountain located there. Niccolo Pericolo is considered the designer of the Boboli Gardens, and the idea is borrowed from other royal parks in Europe (for example, Versailles).
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Tokyo Gardens Rikugen
Location: Tokyo, Japan.
In the 17th century, Tokyo created the most beautiful garden, which is a traditional Japanese-style garden. For 8 years, landscape scenes were created in the garden, described in the famous epics of Japan, thanks to the first owner of the garden, a great admirer of waka poetry Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu.
Rikugien is simply amazing: huge ponds with islands, on one of which there is a hill, which provides the guests of the garden with an opportunity to appreciate the panorama of the park. About 3 thousand shrubs and thousands of trees grow in the territory of Rikugien Park, which creates a kind of picturesque oasis.
Literally, "Rikugien" is translated as "a garden of six poems." The garden is a true example of the Japanese style and is located in Tokyo. The first garden arose more than three hundred years ago, when a shogun gave a piece of land to one faithful samurai. The garden is a real oasis of calm surrounded by tall buildings. Rikugen consists of a whole complex, which includes artificial hills, artfully disguised tea houses, woodlands and a central pond with islets.
Bridges were thrown across water bodies, the banks of which are overgrown with forbs, and carps swim in the backwaters. The park has about 6 thousand trees, in the foliage of which a large number of birds live. Like every garden, sakura trees also grow here, which, thanks to the night illumination, look simply magnificent.
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Claude Monet's Garden
Location: Giverny, France.
In 1883 Claude Monet's family settles in Giverny, where fruit trees grew on a site enclosed by a high stone wall. The garden was divided by a central alley into two parts, outlined by pine trees, which were cut down by order of Claude Monet. On the area of about a hectare, a garden was created, characterized by symmetries and variegation.
The entire plot is occupied by flower beds, which are overgrown with flowers of different heights to give volume. The artist confessed his love to his garden with the following words: “All the money goes to landscaping the garden.” The artist was engaged in the garden for 20 years. Then the lands after death passed to son Michel, who did not take care of the garden, but was supported by his stepdaughter Monet. As a result of World War II, the park became desolate and was given over to the Academy of Fine Arts. Today everything here is rebuilt.
But not only there you can learn a lot about the work of the great artist. On our site most-beauty.ru there is an entire article devoted to the famous paintings of Claude Monet.
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Budhart Gardens
Location: British Columbia.
Budhart Gardens in Canada is the most beautiful place on the planet, which is visited annually by thousands of tourists to view Budhart flower gardens. Now the garden occupies fifty acres, but earlier the Budharts owned 130 acres, rich in limestone.
The family was a leader in the production of cement in the entire district, only a giant quarry on the site did not bring spiritual joy, as a result of which the head of the family decided to create a flowering, fragrant garden of paradise in land that was worthless. A hundred years have passed, and everyone still expresses gratitude to the Budkhart family for creating a lively and well-groomed garden, as a magnet attracting connoisseurs of nature and with all care supported by man.
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Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden
Location: Cape Town.
The main garden of South Africa is located in Cape Town, the land under which until 1902 was owned by the notorious Cecil Rhodes, by will of which the plot was transferred to the state. The Botanical Garden was created in 1913 on the eastern slope of Table Mountain, the purpose of which is to preserve the unique flora of South Africa.
Our small team of the site most-beauty.ru just wants to walk along this wonderful bridge.
The Botanical Garden occupies 560 hectares, on which approximately nine thousand plants grow. The places are also unique in combining the landscape of the Cape Peninsula, which consists of mountains, a rich garden and the ocean, which cannot but impress. It is considered a prestigious occupation to spend Christmas in Kirstenbosch Garden, as a result of which the cost of tickets for flights to South Africa and hotels is growing at this time. However, guests have the opportunity to listen to such world stars as Brian Adams, John Groban and Ronan Keating.
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Abraham Lincoln Memorial Garden
Location: Illinois, USA.
The garden was created in 1936 by Harriet Knudson in Springfield, as a natural monument to Abraham Lincoln. The plants growing in the garden come from 3 states - Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana, where the president resided. In 1930, the city authorities allocated a plot near the lake for this purpose, and the local gardening club sponsored the project.
The garden project was created by Jens Jenson, who was a leading landscape designer and creator of several Chicago parks, as well as a garden for the Ford family in Michigan. As a result, the garden is included as a historical place in the corresponding register. In the memorial park there are circular benches to which special paths lead with flowering trees and shrubs planted along them. It seems that everything was created by nature, and not decades of human labor.
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Exbury Gardens
Location: New Forest, England
Throughout Europe, the Rothschild family created groups of gardens and parks, which now belong to the most beautiful in the world. Exbury Suburb in England boasts the most beautiful of them. Lionel Nathan Rothschild in 1919, it was here that came up with the irrigation system, the first in the world. From his travels to Southeast Asia, the Himalayas and other exotic places, Lionel brought and planted rhododendrons, colorful cherries, giant sequoias and Lebanese cedars in the park.
Fantastic amounts were spent on the maintenance of the garden, to which Rothschild devoted his life. Then he crossed the trees, extended the time of their flowering, developed varieties resistant to the local climate, as a result of which the collection grown by him would now be estimated at millions of dollars. After the death of the creator, the widow had no opportunity to maintain the park, which was then restored by Lionel’s son, Edmund, who made a shopping center here, which allowed the restoration of the garden, which is still in excellent condition.
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Mirabell Garden
Location: Salzburg, Austria.
Salzburg was rebuilt in the Baroque style, in which the local Mirabell park was also built, which was laid out in 1690 next to the palace on the site of the garden. Initially, the garden and palace were called Altenau. Mirabell Garden was rebuilt in 1730, a feature of which has survived to the present. Drawings and ancient drawings contributed to the preservation of its appearance - sculptures, terraces and marble fountains.
Mirabelle Garden was brought glory to the world's oldest “green theater” located here, and since 1715 the garden of 28 gnomes has been preserved here, the viewing of which pleased the masters. Residents and guests of Salzburg relax in the landscaped garden, whose fountains amaze with their luxury. The main fountain is surrounded by 4 sculptures related to the elements - fire, earth, air and water.
What I would like to say
There are still many gardens in the world with various plants and landscapes, and even if they are not included in the list of the most beautiful gardens on the planet, they nevertheless allow us to appreciate the talent of the people who created them, as well as the beauty of nature. Appreciate the work of people who create the beauty around us and enjoy it.