Garden tourism

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Garden tourism involves visits or travel to botanical gardens and places that are important to the history of gardening.

Most often garden tourists travel individually in countries familiar to them, but they may also participate in organized garden tours.

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World's Most Popular Gardens

There are many fabulous public gardens all over the world. The United Kingdom has most of them - well over 3,000 according to Gardens of England and Wales Open for Charity.

Some of the most beautiful and most popular gardens often visited by garden tourists are:


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Taj Mahal (India) - YouTube videos

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Keukenhof (the Nethederlands) - YouTube videos

Keukenhof
by eliane13 | video info

4 ratings | 2,043 views
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Alhambra (Spain) - YouTube videos

Gardens at the Alhambra
by martannek | video info

2 ratings | 833 views
curated content from YouTube

The Butchart Gardens, Victoria (British Columbia), Canada - YouTube videos

Travel Canada-Travel Victoria, Canada-Canada Travel Video PostCard
by travelvideo | video info

20 ratings | 22,929 views
curated content from YouTube

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Stourhead Gardens, Wiltshire (UK) - YouTube videos

Stourhead Walk with Nigel Vile
by CountryWalking | video info

3 ratings | 1,225 views
curated content from YouTube

Versailles Gardens (France) - YouTube videos

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Ryoan-ji Gardens (Japan) - Tube videos

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Tivoli Villa D'Este Gardens (Italy) - YouTube videos

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Longwood Gardens (USA) - YouTube videos

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Books for garden lovers - from Amazon.com

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Reader Feedback

  • SmartChica Dec 26, 2010 @ 5:40 pm | delete
    Nice collectionof garden videos and info. Thanks!
  • TopStyleTravel May 30, 2009 @ 4:24 pm | delete
    Great lens, so many gardens, so little time. Gardens are splendid. Thanks for the virtual trip.
  • sirmranuniverse Jan 29, 2009 @ 4:56 am | delete
    Good Lens. For Indian Garden Lovers I would like to suggest India Garden Information
  • ElizabethJeanAllen Aug 24, 2008 @ 5:30 pm | delete
    You feature some beautiful gardens here. I wish I could see them in person.
    Nice lens.
    Lizzy
  • dinkydav Mar 31, 2008 @ 4:29 pm | delete
    thanks for the awesome lens. very informative on gardening.

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