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For those who can't wait to see green grass and flowers, we made a selection of luxurious gardens and parks that are definitely worth seeing at least in a photo.
Butchart Gardens, Canada
Butchart Gardens is a group of gardens located in the heart of Canada. At the beginning of the 20th century, representatives of the Butchart family of industrialists built a "Sunken" garden on the site of the quarry. The master of landscape art, Japanese Isaburo Kishido, was invited to arrange it. The garden turned out to be so refined and beautiful that people came from all over the country to admire its beauty.
In mid-2009, on its centennial, Butchart Gardens was officially designated a National Historic Landmark.
Keukenhof Royal Tulip Park, Holland
Keukenhof, or the "Garden of Europe", is a fabulous park and flower kingdom, which is spread over an area of 32 hectares in the vicinity of the town of Lisse, between Amsterdam and The Hague. Despite the fact that Keukenhof is open to visitors only two months a year, from approximately March 20 to May 20, it is visited annually by more than a million people.
Keukenhof gardeners plant more than 7 million bulbs of freesias, hyacinths, lilies, orchids, daffodils and, of course, a whole sea of tulips every year!
Nong Nooch Tropical Garden, Thailand
Nong Nooch is 240 hectares of botanical gardens and local attractions located on the 163rd kilometer of Sukhumvit Road in Chonburi Province. The park has its own Stonehenge and broken gardens of orchids, bonsai trees and ferns.
Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, London
Kew Gardens originated in 1670 in Kew Park, created by Lord Henry Capel on the site of an apothecary's garden. More than 2 million tourists visit them annually, but the gardens are not only for them. Kew Gardens is a leading center for botanical research and training for professional gardeners. Scientific research is carried out here, and the plants are also used as a source for other of the most beautiful parks in England.
The most famous attractions in the Royal Botanic Gardens are Kew Palace, Minka, Great Pagoda, Davies Alpine Lodge, Japanese Gate, Risotron Multimedia Gallery, Queen Charlotte's Cottage, Marianne North Gallery, Shirley Sherwood Gallery, Treetop Alley Bridge and the House water lily
The state-of-the-art Conservatory of the Princess of Wales is rightfully proud of the Amazon giant water lily and the giant amorphophallus (the plant with the largest flower in existence).
Tropical Palm Park, Florida, USA
The park has a unique collection of rare tropical plants, including palm trees, flowering trees and vineyards.
Desert Botanical Garden, Arizona, USA
This garden has the largest collection of cacti in the world. Research on desert plants is conducted here, and there are also special educational programs for schoolchildren and students dedicated to the study of the desert.
Yu Yuan Garden, Shanghai
The first owner of the Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai, Mr. Yunduan, decided to build a garden that resembled the imperial garden in Beijing to please his parents in their old age. Since the 16th century, the park has been rebuilt several times.
The entire park was built according to all the rules of feng shui. The garden is divided into 6 parts, which are connected by intricate transitions, visually isolated from each other. The name Yu Yuan means "Garden of Joy" or "Garden of leisurely rest".
Garden of Cosmic Reflections, Scotland
This amazing place appeared in Scotland in the town of Dumfries in 1989. Instead of exotic flowers and a large number of bushes, there are aluminum flower beds, instead of fountains - black holes, and the landscape is mesmerizing with unusual shapes.
The authors of the idea of such a garden are architect Charles Jenks and his wife, landscape designer Maggie Keswick-Jenks. They decided to reproduce the universe in miniature in the park, to show not only the beauty of the universe, its micro- and macroworld, but also its laws, paradoxes, its birth and evolution through garden forms, landscapes, sculptures.
Majorelle studio garden, Morocco
The garden was created by the French artist Jacques Majorel, who at the beginning of the 20th century came to Morocco in search of exoticism, fell in love with the country, bought a plot of land on the outskirts of Marrakech and stayed here to live. He decided to lay a symbolic garden, for which he invited the best landscape designers and collected plants from different countries in his garden.
On the territory of a quiet and shady garden grow trees and exotic plants imported from different parts of the world: luxurious bougainvillea, fragrant jasmine flowers, lotuses, aloes, bamboo, yuccas, coconut palms, banana trees, as well as various cacti, some of which have a height of less than three meters.
Gardens of Versailles, France
The famous gardens of Versailles were laid out under Louis XIII and were brought to perfection by the famous court landscape architect André Lenotre under Louis XIV. In addition to carefully trimmed lawns and lawns, sculptures and parterres of flowers, luxurious fountains are located throughout the gardens.
Versailles Park is a "garden of the mind" with mathematically calibrated proportions and clearly planned avenues. The "Sun King" did not want to see faded flowers, so two million plants of fresh flowers were always ready to replace the faded ones and the garden shone magnificently all year round.
