If you are a traveler who enjoys in beauties of nature, you should definitely visit some of the 10 most Beautiful Gardens in the world. Each of those gardens is lovely in its own way and has something different and interesting to offer to it’s visitors. Here is our list of 10 most Beautiful Gardens in the world:
1. Gardens of Versailles, France
In the 17th century, one of the most famous French landscape architects, André Le Nôtre, designed the fascinating gardens of Versailles, built for Louis XIV. Placed to the west of the palace, the gardens cover about 800 hectares of land, which includes two ‘French’ gardens, the ‘Petit Parc’ and the ‘Trianon’ and 300 hectares of forest. The gardens feature lovely parterres of flowers, meticulous manicured lawns, sculptures, fountains and water features. The gardens of Versailles are one of the most visited public places in France, receiving few million visitors a year.
2. Singapore Botanic Garden
Singapore Botanic Garden is a garden composed with 3 parts: Bukit Timah Core, Tanglin Core and Centre. The garden is considered as one of the most beautiful in the world and one of the oldest. The garden at its present site was founded in 1859 by an Agri-Horticultural Society. Bukit Timah Core is in use for study and practicing while in Tanglin Core part visitors can find a lot of beautiful and unique statues and fountains that are distributed in little small circular gardens. The most popular part among the tourist is Centre. You don’t have many places in the world where you can see 60,000 seedlings of orchid flowers in full bloom. That is the Orchid Garden State.
3. Descanso Gardens, California
If you are in L.A. you should definitely spend half an hour driving to this gorgeous garden. Descanso gardens are called ”Heaven on earth”. They have more than 100.000 diferent plants and are proud owners of the world’s biggest “collection” of the camellia. Gardens and forest of Descanso are spread over 26 hectares of the San Rafael Hills. If you go at Descanso gardens we suggest you to visit Japanese garden and international Rose Garden which is home to thousands of roses.
4. The Butchart Gardens, British Columbia, Canada
In 1904, Jennie Butchart started to beautify an abandoned limestone quarry left behind from her husband’s pioneering efforts in the manufacture of cement. Little by little, the place blossomed into the spectacular Sunken Garden. The sea-side of the Butchart family’s home was transformed into a lovely Japanese Garden, the tennis court became an Italian Garden, while a wonderful Rose Garden replaced a big kitchen vegetable patch. Today, the Butchart Gardens is one of the most beautiful gardens in the world and the most visited tourist attraction on Vancouver Island, receiving more than a million visitors each year.
5. Villa d’Este, Italy
Here we have one more European magnificent garden. His history is quite interesting. After the disappointment of a failed bid for the papacy, a cardinal Ippolito II d’Este came back to Tivoli and decided to build himself a home from old monastery. He called his home Villa d’Este. Now Villa d’Este is one of the most beautiful gardens in the world, and recently Vila d’Est was found on the list of UNESCO as one of the 31 most important historical cities in Italy.
6. The Dumbarton Oaks Gardens, Washington D.C.
The Dumbarton Oaks Gardens, located on the highest point in Georgetown, Washington D.C. features 4 formally landscaped hectares and a beautiful English country garden around the mansion Dumbarton Oaks House. The gardens were designed and created over a 30 year period through the partnership of Mildred Bliss, the owner of the the property, and landscape designer Beatrix Farrand. The gardens include oak trees, an enormous bamboo stand, a rose garden, and the profusion of perennials and color so familiar to traditional country gardens. Much of the property is terraced and planted with cherry trees, herbs and forsythias.
