Opened as a botanical garden in 1798, the Angers Jardins des Plantes became a public park in 1898, designed by Edouard Andre. The sweeping lines of the paths, the well-placed statues and the gardenesque planting are characteristic of his style.
Garden fanatics will be converging on the Swedish city of Gothenburg for the ‘Gardens of Gothenburg’ exhibition which kicks off on 28 June 2008 and runs for three months. The exhibition will take place in four key locations in and around the city centre.
The four locations are: The Trädgårdsföreningen (the Garden Society of Gothenburg), Gothenburg [...]
The summer garden is a kind of modern knot garden with a very formal layout of clipped box in a square edged pattern. Each ‘box’ is then filled with a very natural planting of grasses and perennials but the colours are superb. Lots of golden yellow, deep red, burning oranges… The overall mix of formal [...]
Le Clos du Coudray – situated not far from Agapanthe, boasts over 8,000 varieties of plants in 25 themed gardens. A stream winds its way past rockeries, exotic gardens and gardens of roses, dahlias and grasses. A nursery sells seeds and plants.
The world-famous Mirabell Gardens were built along a north-south axis and oriented towards the Hohensalzburg Fortress and the Salzburger Dom cathedral. The original gardens were re-modelled according to plans by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach under the reign of Prince Archbishop Johann Ernst Thun in 1689.
Only some decades later, Franz Anton Danreiter altered them [...]
Keukenhof , also known as the Garden of Europe is situated near Lisse, Netherlands, and is the world’s largest flower garden. According to the official website for the Keukenhof Park, there are approximately 7,000,000 (seven million) flower bulbs planted annually at the park.
Keukenhof is located in South Holland between the towns of Hillegom and Lisse, [...]
Exbury Gardens is a famous garden in Hampshire, England, which belongs to a branch of the Rothschild family. It is situated just to the East of Beaulieu across the river from Bucklers Hard. It is well signposted from Beaulieu and from the A326 Southampton to Fawley road in the New Forest.
Exbury is a 200 acre [...]
When Monet and his family settled in Giverny in 1883 the piece of land sloping gently down from the house to the road was planted with an orchard and enclosed by high stone walls.
A central alley bordered with pines separated it into two parts. Monet had the pines cut down, keeping only the two yews [...]
The Boboli Gardens, in Italian Giardino di Boboli, form a famous park in Florence, Italy, that is home to a distinguished collection of sculptures dating from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, with some Roman antiquities.
History and layout
The Gardens, behind the Pitti Palace, the main seat of the Medici grand dukes of Tuscany at Florence, [...]
Portrack, Scotland is home to the Garden of Cosmic Speculation – one of the most intriguing gardens of the 20th century. Charles Jencks and his late wife Maggie Keswick, together with head gardener, Alistair Cook have designed one of the most original gardens on the planet.
The garden is full of ideas, associations and [...]
