World’s Most Beautiful Parks and Gardens

The station is entirely built around visits to gardens in the world and is one of the biggest growth areas in the vacation (if you'll pardon the pun). The Italian villa in large landscaped gardens at Versailles, from the middle of rural idylls in England for formal and symbolic creations in Japan - there is a wide range of world, each reflecting the culture and horticulture in their environments.

Gardens in North East France, France

Monet's Garden is a colorful garden artist, an artist. This is a garden created in 1883-1926, in the valley of the River Epte Claude Monet, one of the world's best-loved artists. It 'was Director of the impressionist painters, a term derived in 1874 for its scenery Impression Soleil Levant.

This beautiful garden is the ethereal harmonies of colors and contrasts of Giverny is divided into two parts by the road. Access between the two sides of the tunnel. The other side of the road, is the top of the back garden, backing vocals on Village Street, is a characteristic of Monet's pink house with green shutters, roses and wreaths. On the walls inside his house to hang just been nominated for his collection of Japanese prints. In front of the house a cornucopia of color resident bees and the butterflies on the wall going down the road. Through the tunnel is located in a different scene. Stylistically, the Eastern Water-garden, which is famous Wisteria, willows and water lilies masterpiece seems still to await the final blinding eye on canvas. He walks beside Monet famous slow-flowing, shallow, a lily pond with a wonderful play of light and shadow, the inspiration for his immortal paintings.

Gardens in Paris, France

The sumptuous hall of mirrors is haunted by the ghosts of the royal family, Louis XIII to Louis-Philippe: 250 years of tragedy and festivals in which the brightness of the Sun King, Louis XIV dominates. The gardens are adorned with hundreds of statues scattered around some of the most beautiful fountains your eyes will ever see. Be sure to arrive in time for the fountains dance to music, usually 11 hours. Do not miss the Grand Trianon pink marble and rustic Petit Trianon, so dear to the heart of Queen Marie-Antoinette.

36,000 people were employed to build the castle. It was begun in 1660 and completed in 1685 by Louis and Jules Hardouin-Mansart Levau. André Le Nôtre designed the gardens and in 1677 Louis XIV moved the court.

The machinery park and garden designed by Andre Le Notre between 1661 and 1700. Grand Trianon, another formal garden, was built on the former site of the village. Versailles is also later additions. The Petit Trianon was Marie Antoinette in 1774. Has fostered an irregular style, the hills, cliffs and coves.

Hestercombe, near Taunton

This garden was designed by the famous Somerset 1-2 punch by Edwin Lutyens (architecture, the bones of the garden) and Gertrude Jekyll (heavy shade plants shade)

The house, which houses the Somerset Fire Brigade, is not open to the public, but everyone says it is not worth it anyway. Still, makes a stunning backdrop of Victoria Terrace, which is flanked by two long stone streams. Opposite the house is a short trellis. Sunken Square consists of all these features is called the Great Plat, which is a large scattered geometric parterre garden spaces and planted in a row the color, from spring to summer, delphiniums Cannas.

There is another Hestercombe garden, the 18 th century landscape garden, which was found only in 1990. Peter White has been working nearby, and took lunch in the woods Hestercombe. Gradually, he found the remains of a garden, which was built between 1750-1786 by Warre Bampfylde Coplestone. White was so impressed with a garden, which was the recovery, and now CEO of Hestercombe Gardens Trust. The combination of a landscape gardens of the 18 th century its path through the woods and a carefully designed "natural" points of view and the Lutyens-Jekyll Edwardian garden becomes a place Hestercombe beautiful garden anywhere.

Little Sparta

Ian Hamilton Finlay modern garden of ideas in the Scottish hills. Each step leads to a new object or see a badge, a citation, a reference, a joke or a poem. The whole garden is filled with incidents and crafts, the result of a lifetime, together with other enthusiasts, infinitely rewarding for visitors looking for layers of meaning in a revolutionary context. Serious but never boring.

Keukenhof Gardens

A little 'history ... Keukenhof hunting area before, and gather herbs for the castle, hence the name Keukenhof. After the death of Jacoba van Bayern, Baron and Baroness van Pallandt, the new owners, known as landscape architects, JD and LF Zocher to create a garden around the castle. This garden, the English landscape style has always been fundamentally Keukenhof. Realty Corporation, and now belongs to the initiative of the mayor of Lisse, the time and a number of leading flower bulb growers and exporters, an outdoor festival show was held for the first time in 1949. It has flourished since then has more than seven million bulbs are planted each autumn for their show next spring.

Tens of thousands of tulips and daffodils in bloom in different pavilions covered with floral show. Each show focuses on a particular product - the amaryllis and hydrangea, daffodils, lilies and asters. There are also examples of a plantation garden, balcony or terrace. Various events, amazing floral arrangements and unique materials will fill you with stimulating ideas that you can use at home.

Palais Het Loo

Dutch as a historical garden fashion scheduled for early formal English landscape gardens.In Apeldoorn an impeccably maintained and beautifully restored baroque formal garden is laid out before a red brick of the royal palace. In 1686 the castle has replaced an old medieval castle bought by Prince William of Orange and Princess Mary, before coming to the throne of England.

A Dutch version of the familiar French garden, it reflects the conviction that the emphasis on order and harmony on earth mirrors of peace and unity in Paradise. Glory of the garden into four parts is in its decoration and use of water. Sculpture, fountains, pools and waterfalls abound.

The Lower Garden is almost certainly designed by Daniel Marot, a French designer who fled to Holland after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Marot achieved a high degree of unity by using the same concept in different ways in the stucco ceilings, garden flower beds, wrought iron, silk wall hangings, garden urns and ceiling paintings. It is also associated with William and Mary Garden at Hampton Court.

Villa Lante

Designed in the 1560s for Cardinal Gambara, probably by Vignola, with aterworks by Ghinucci. A spring generates a series of elaborate water features - fountains and a water-line - finishing in a square pool surrounded by Parterre. The twin villas, terraces, fountains and beautifully integrated plantations, and the statues are worth the trip in its own right. This is an example of almost complete style of the garden, which is the foundation of the history of gardens in Europe. The adjacent park is part of the original design and just as important.