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New York Botanical Garden: A Deep Dive into the Bronx's Living Museum
One of the world's great botanical gardens sits inside New York City, wrapped around a river and a remnant of the forest that once covered the region.
Versailles: A Deep Dive into the World's Greatest Garden
How Le Nôtre, Le Vau and Mansart transformed a marsh into the supreme expression of absolute monarchy.
The Best Tropical Gardens
From Inhotim to Singapore's Gardens by the Bay — the great tropical botanical gardens.
Naturalistic Perennial Planting: Piet Oudolf and the New Perennial Movement
From the High Line to Hummelo — how Piet Oudolf reshaped public planting.
Read more →The Cottage Garden Tradition
From medieval working gardens to the contemporary cottage style — how the English cottage garden became a global archetype.
Read more →The Best Baroque Gardens of Europe
From Schönbrunn to Caserta — the great baroque garden ensembles of continental Europe.
Read more →The Best Moorish and Andalusian Gardens
From the Alhambra to the Real Alcázar of Seville — Spain's Islamic garden legacy.
Read more →The Best Chinese Scholar Gardens
From the Humble Administrator's Garden to the Master of the Nets — the surviving classical gardens of Suzhou and beyond.
Read more →The Best Persian Paradise Gardens
From Bagh-e Eram to Bagh-e Fin — where the original paradise garden tradition lives.
Read more →The Best Arts and Crafts Gardens
Lawrence Johnston spent four decades, from 1907 to 1948, perfecting Hidcote into the most influential Arts and Crafts garden after Sissinghurst.
Read more →The Best Zen Rock Gardens
Fifteen stones in five groupings on raked gravel at Ryoan-ji, arranged so you can never see the whole composition from any single spot.
Read more →The Best Mughal Gardens
Shah Jahan crowned Shalimar Bagh with 410 fountains, three descending terraces and a black marble pavilion between 1641 and 1642.
Read more →Capability Brown and the Best English Landscape Parks
At Blenheim, Brown dammed the Glyme to flood Vanbrugh's bridge to its second arch, calling the drowning an improvement.
Read more →The Best French Formal Gardens
Centred on the Grand Canal, Le Notre's 800-hectare Versailles remains the largest formal garden ever built, begun in 1661 for Louis XIV.
Read more →The Best Italian Renaissance Gardens
Five hundred fountains cascade down the terraced hillside at Villa d'Este, begun in 1550 for Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este.
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