Great Gardens of the World

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National Trust | Hidcote Manor Garden

One of England's great gardens. Filled with rare & unusual plant species, the varied styles of the outdoor rooms peak at different times making an ...

National Trust | Stowe Landscape Gardens

Stowe in Buckinghamshire is Europe's most influential landscape gardens

National Park | Lyme Park

A great estate with lavishly decorated house and fine gardens.

National Trust | Rowallane Garden

A beautiful informal garden of trees and shrubs, with plants from around the world

National Trust | Glendurgan Garden

Superb subtropical garden in Cornwall running down to the tiny village of Durgan and its beach

National Trust | Trelissick Garden

Tranquil garden set on many levels, containing a superb collection of tender and exotic plants

National Trust | Coleton Fishacre

Arts and Crafts style house with elegant Art-Deco influenced interior, set amid gardens in a spectacular coastal setting

National Trust | Greenway

Glorious woodland garden on the banks of the Dart estuary in Devonkeywords=south west,rare plants,national trust
Important collection of trees and shrubs featured on BBC's Hidden Gardens

National Trust | Knightshayes Court

Knightshayes Court is a Victorian country house with richly decorated interiors and a fine garden.
Celebrated gardens with lily pools, floral borders, amusing topiary and newly restored and fully productive walled kitchen garden

National Trust | Snowshill Manor

An Arts & Crafts-style garden designed to complement a handsome Cotswold manor house. Peaceful hillside gardens designed as a series of rooms and run on organic principles

National Trust | Westbury Court Garden

A Dutch water garden - a rare and beautiful survival of 17th century design

National Trust | Emmetts Garden

Charming Victorian garden with year-round interest. Emmetts stands on one of the highest spots in Kent offering spectacular views, glorious shows of spring flowers & shrubs.

National Trust | Barrington Court

Jekyll-inspired Somerset garden, working kitchen garden and Tudor manor house. Colourful layout in a series of 'rooms' Arboretum with vivid golden hues in autumn

National Trust | Biddulph Grange Garden

One of Britain's most unusual gardens, with many surprising features, Rare and exotic planting and architecture: from an Egyptian court, to elegant Italian terraces. Unique Chinese garden, including a temple, enclosed within its own Great Wall of China

National Trust | Claremont Landscape Garden

One of the first & finest gardens of the English Landscape Style. Claremont features a spectacular turf amphitheatre, grotto, Island Pavilion & Ha-Ha.

National Trust | Sheffield Park Garden

An internationally renowned landscape garden laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown and further developed in the 20th century by Arthur G Soames. Waterfalls, cascades and four large lakes; Profusion of colour all year, including bluebells, rhododendrons and trees with spectacular autumnal colour. Home to the National Collection of Ghent azaleas

National Trust | Nymans Garden house

Sussex Weald garden famous for its beauty & collection of rare plants was developed in the 20th century by the Messel family.

National Trust | Stourhead

A celebrated landscape garden and Palladian mansion in Wiltshire

National Trust | Rievaulx Terrace & Temples

One of Yorkshire's finest 18th century landscape gardens

National Trust | Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal Water Garden

This World Heritage Site comprises the spectacular ruin of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey and monastic watermill, an Elizabethan mansion and one of the best surviving examples of a Georgian water garden

More great gardens in Wales

National Botanic Garden of Wales : National Botanic Garden of Wales : The National Botanic Garden of Wales - Homepage

The National Botanic Garden of Wales exists to develop a viable world-class national botanic garden dedicated to the research and conservation of biodiversity and its sustainable utilisation, to lifelong learning and to the enjoyment of the visitor.

It's also the first national botanic garden to be created in the new millennium. In a short time it has developed into one of the most fascinating gardens in the UK and the most visited garden in Wales,

National Trust | Powis Castle & Garden

A medieval castle built by Welsh princes rising dramatically above the world-famous garden with Italianate terraces which are overhung with enormous clipped yews.

National Trust | Erddig

Country house and estate, which vividly evokes family and servant life through the ages, set in extensive gardens, park and woodland. Includes a restored formal 18th-century walled garden, with Victorian parterre, Yew Walk and National Collection of Ivies

The Gardens : Portmeirion - Welcome to the official Portmeirion village web site

An introduction to Pormeirion's Gardens. Take a long walk around magnificent gardens found in the Castle, Village, Plas Brondanw and Gwyllt Gardens

Aberglasney House and Gardens in Wales, Carmarthenshire, UK

Aberglasney House and Gardens is one of the finest gardens in Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK. Aberglasney Gardens have been an inspiration to poets since 1477. The gardens have been reclaimed from ruin.

National Trust | Colby Woodland Garden

Beautiful woodland valley garden with year-round colour in Pembrokeshire. One of the best collections of rhododendronas and azaleas in Wales

Gardens of North Wales

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More Great Gardens in Europe

Alhambra - a review from the Garden and Landscape Guide

Alhambra - a review from the Garden and Landscape Guide

Chateau de Villandry & Gardens

Villandry was completed toward 1536 and was the last of the large chateaus built in the Loire Valley during the Renaissance. It had a formal garden in the eighteenth century. The traditional gardens were destroyed in the 19th century to create an English-style park around the chateau.
The present garden dates from the years after 1906 when it was bought by a Spaniard, Dr Joachim Carvallo.

Jardin des Tuileries | GardenVisit.com, the garden landscape guide

A key project in the history of garden design and in development of Paris as an axial city. The Jardin de Tuileries was made on the site of a tile-works (tuileries), within the old walled city on the banks of the River Seine. The original division of the space, by allees, has survived many changes. It began as a private royal pleasure garden, with flowers and fruit.

Great Gardens in North America

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Icons of Modernism: The Donnell + Miller Gardens / The Cultural Landscape Foundation

Icons of Modernism celebrates Dan Kiley and his masterwork design for the Miller Garden in Columbus, Indiana, together with Thomas Church and Lawrence Halprin's revolutionary biomorphic design for the Donnell Garden in Sonoma, California. Visitors have "virtual" access to two of the most important private Modern gardens in America

Botanical Gardens in the USA

San Francisco Botanical Garden

The San Francisco Botanical Garden is cherished locally and recognized internationally for beauty, diversity of plant collections, educational programs and dedication to conservation. Open 365 days a year.

Great Gardens in Asia

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Bagh-e Fin - a review from the Garden and Landscape Guide

Bagh-e Fin - a review from the Garden and Landscape Guide

Lists of Great Gardens to Visit

Telegraph - The world's 50 most beautiful gardens - Part one: Europe

The world's 50 most beautiful gardens - Part one: Europe

Telegraph - The world's 50 most beautiful gardens - Asia, Africa, Australasia, and the Americas

The world's 50 most beautiful gardens: Asia, Africa, Australasia, and the Americas

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The Garden and Landscape Guide gives information about gardens open to the public and landscape architecture: design: history, philosophy, styles, tours, hotels, construction, materials, products, tools, ebooks, planting and designers in Europe, America and around the world.