Not far from the Vietnamese city of Danang, there is an amazing place - Ba Na mountain resort, the path to which passes along the highest cable car in the world. This is not the first time we have been vacationing in Vietnam and have already managed to visit many interesting sights, but I can say that the impressions of a trip to Mount Ba Na are one of the most powerful. Although before visiting Ba Na Hills we read a lot of negative and neutral reviews from tourists. Perhaps this place is "for everybody." But personally, I highly recommend visiting it!
What is BaNa Hills?
Since 1920, BaNa Hills has been a French resort, some buildings have survived to the present. Then during the war he was abandoned. But in recent years, they created a huge park complex, built new hotels, thereby ensuring an endless flow of tourists. To climb Mount BaNa, you need to overcome the climb on the highest cableway in the world. At the top is a huge Fantasy Park amusement park, 3 hotels, several restaurants, pagodas, flower gardens with fountains and statues, a wine cellar, castles, a Catholic cathedral, a spa, golf lawns and my favorite Vietnamese sledges.
The girls at the reception advised to go as early as possible, as in BaNa Hills there are a lot of interesting places and entertainment. In addition, in the early morning, the entry line should be less.
So, at 8 am we went on a tour. The driver took us to the place in 30 minutes. On the way, we admired the beauty of the surrounding nature. When we saw a huge line at the entrance to the cable car, a little upset. Already imagined how idle here for three hours. The line began on the street, but there were even more people inside the building.
There were almost no Europeans in this huge queue, and we didn’t even see Russians. Mostly Chinese and Vietnamese who looked with great interest at our company.
There is no more gifted creator in the world than nature, which has created truly amazing and wonderful masterpieces around the world. In the process of observing natural beauties, it is simply breathtaking, but parks and gardens created by human hands deserve no less excitement. Today, botanical gardens, small parks and giant palace and park complexes created by talented gardeners or designers are accessible to millions of people from all over the world. Some representatives of landscape gardening art are presented in our article.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens
Location: London. Great Britain.
Kew Gardens covers more than 130 ha. This huge complex of greenhouses and gardens was founded in 1759 by Princess Augusta, the mother of King George III.
Kew Gardens - incredibly beautiful gardens made in the classical English style, amaze the imagination with the number of species of plants represented: there are about 50 thousand of them. There are also some famous buildings considered attractions, such as the Pagoda, Palm House, Water Lily House, Alpine House. And there are absolutely incredible structures - the largest compost pile in Europe and the famous alley above the treetops.
Keukenhof
Location: Netherlands.
Every spring, the gardens attract tourists and guests from all over the world with their unique beauty. In this colorful piece of paradise, more than 7 million flowers bloom - tulips, daffodils and hyacinths. Visitors can enjoy the beauty and then relax in one of the many restaurants or cafes in the Keukenhof gardens. Boat trips and cycling are also popular here.
Xuan Nong Nooch
Location: Thailand.
The garden was founded in 1980. The Nong Nooch Garden is an unusual little paradise for tourists. This beautiful exotic garden contains the largest private collection of plants in general, and palm trees in particular. In addition, visitors to Xuan Nong Nooch can enjoy various types of orchids, from the flowering of which they are simply breathtaking. Here you will be invited to visit various shows and spectacular events, and Ms. Nong Nooch even has shows with elephants.
Location: France.
The Versailles Garden, the pearl of a beautiful palace complex. Louis XIV founded this garden in 1661. It was designed in classic French style by landscape architect Andre Lenotre. The garden is located on the territory of 800 hectares.
The Versailles Garden is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. More than 6 million tourists visit this garden annually to admire its beauty. On the territory of the garden, in the warm season, beautiful fountains work, each of which is a work of art.
Butchart Garden
Location: Ontario. Canada
This garden (Butchart Gardens) is the brainchild of Robert Pym Butchart and his wife Jenny. They moved to Owen Sound in Ontario to explore the rich limestone deposits in the region. The hobby for gardening of this couple began with a small garden in front of the house, which later became a famous international tourist center.
Location: Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
Founded in 1937 by the Arizona Cactus communities and local flora lovers, this garden currently has at least 21,000 plant species, 139 of which are rare or endangered. The garden is considered the pride of the inhabitants of Phoenix and is a popular tourist destination in this region.
Garden Yu Yuan
Location: Shanghai, China.
Yu Yuan Garden is a famous classical Chinese garden. Work on the construction of the garden was completed in 1577 by an officer of the Ming Dynasty named Pan Yunduan. He built a garden to please his father, but he did not live to see the end of almost 20 years of construction. The name of the garden in Chinese means "joy" or "leisurely rest." The garden area is only 4 hectares, but the number of attractions that are in it is not proportional to size. Each corner is a small piece with samples of Chinese culture.
Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden
Location: Florida, USA.
In Fairchild's tropical botanical garden, a huge number of different tropical plant species grow. Here you can find samples of groups of plants brought from different parts of the globe, for example, South Florida, ocean islands, tropical Africa, the Caribbean and Madagascar.
On the territory of the garden, there is a leading research center for the study of palm trees with more than 70 years of history.
Garden of Cosmic Reflections
Location: Scotland.
The creation of the Garden of Cosmic Reflections by Charles Jenks was inspired by fractals and black holes, he tried to combine science, mathematics, sculpture and landscape design. The garden is unique. There is no plant wealth here, but there are mathematical formulas and scientific phenomena reflected in conditions that skillfully combine natural features, artificial symmetry and curves.
Majorelle Garden
Location: Morocco
The elegant African Majorelle garden is decorated in a surprisingly beautiful blue color, which gives the garden a unique, oriental flavor. The garden was created by French artist Jacques Majorelle in the 1920s, but was later bought out by the famous fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent. This garden also houses the Islamic Museum of Art in Marrakech, which houses North African Saint Laurent textiles, Majorelle paintings, and more.
Location: Italy.
The most worthy of visiting the Florentine palace is the Palazzo Pitti. Decorated with rough materials, the three-story palace, located on a hill, creates an simply impressive sight.
The gardens got their name thanks to the names of landowners. Cosimo Medici, who later married Eleanor of Toledo, acquired the palace in 1549. After the wedding, the palace is rebuilt, a courtyard is created, where the most beautiful Renaissance courtyard was built. Along the perimeter of this courtyard are the magnificent Boboli Gardens, which are characterized by direct avenues leading to secluded grottoes. Trees go well with statues and lawns. The courtyard joins the park with the Artishokov fountain located there. Niccolo Pericolo is considered the designer of the Boboli Gardens, and the idea is borrowed from other royal parks in Europe (for example, Versailles).
Tokyo Gardens Rikugen
Location: Tokyo, Japan.
In the 17th century, Tokyo created the most beautiful garden, which is a traditional Japanese-style garden. For 8 years, landscape scenes were created in the garden, described in the famous epics of Japan, thanks to the first owner of the garden, a great admirer of waka poetry Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu.
Rikugien is simply amazing: huge ponds with islands, on one of which there is a hill, which provides an opportunity for guests of the garden to appreciate the panorama of the park. About 3 thousand shrubs and thousands of trees grow in the territory of Rikugien Park, which creates a kind of picturesque oasis.
Literally, "Rikugien" is translated as "a garden of six poems." The garden is a true example of the Japanese style and is located in Tokyo. The first garden arose more than three hundred years ago, when the shogun gave a piece of land to one faithful samurai. The garden is a real oasis of calm surrounded by tall buildings. Rikugen consists of a whole complex, which includes artificial hills, artfully disguised tea houses, woodlands and a central pond with islets. Bridges were thrown over water bodies, the banks of which are overgrown with forbs, and carps swim in the backwaters. The park has about 6 thousand trees, in the foliage of which a large number of birds live. Like every garden, sakura trees also grow here, which, thanks to night illumination, look simply magnificent.
Location: Giverny, France.
In 1883 Claude Monet's family settles in Giverny, where fruit trees grew on a site enclosed by a high stone wall. The garden was divided by a central alley into two parts, outlined by pine trees, which were cut down by order of Claude Monet. On the area of \u200b\u200babout a hectare, a garden was created, characterized by symmetries and variegation.
The entire plot is occupied by flower beds, which are overgrown with flowers of different heights to give volume. The artist confessed his love for his garden with the following words: “All the money goes to landscaping the garden.” The artist was engaged in the garden for 20 years. Then the lands after death passed to son Michel, who did not take care of the garden, but was supported by his stepdaughter Monet. As a result of World War II, the park became desolate and was given over to the Academy of Fine Arts. Today everything here is rebuilt.
But not only there you can learn a lot about the work of the great artist. Our site has a whole site dedicated to the famous paintings of Claude Monet.
Budhart Gardens
Location: British Columbia.
Budhart Gardens in Canada is the most beautiful place on the planet, which is visited annually by thousands of tourists to view Budhart flower gardens. Now the garden occupies fifty acres, but earlier the Budharts owned 130 acres, rich in limestone.
The family was a leader in the production of cement in the entire district, only a giant quarry on the site did not bring spiritual joy, as a result of which the head of the family decided to create a flowering, fragrant garden of paradise in unfit lands. A hundred years have passed, and everyone still expresses gratitude to the Budkhart family for creating a lively and well-groomed garden, as a magnet attracting connoisseurs of nature and with all care supported by man.
Location: Cape Town.
The main garden of South Africa is located in Cape Town, the lands under which until 1902 were owned by the notorious Cecil Rhodes, by will of which the plot was transferred to the state. The Botanical Garden was created in 1913 on the eastern slope of Table Mountain, the purpose of which is to preserve the unique flora of South Africa.
The Botanical Garden occupies 560 hectares, on which approximately nine thousand plants grow. The places are also unique in combining the landscape of the Cape Peninsula, which consists of mountains, a rich garden and the ocean, which cannot but impress. It is considered a prestigious occupation to spend Christmas in the Kirstenbosch Garden, as a result of which the cost of tickets for flights to South Africa and hotels is growing at this time. However, guests have the opportunity to listen to such world stars as Brian Adams, John Groban and Ronan Keating.
Location: Illinois, USA.
The garden was created in 1936 by Harriet Knudson in Springfield, as a natural monument to Abraham Lincoln. The plants growing in the garden come from 3 states - Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana, where the president resided. In 1930, the city authorities allocated a plot near the lake for this purpose, and the local gardening club sponsored the project.
The garden project was created by Jens Jenson, who was a leading landscape designer and creator of several Chicago parks, as well as a garden for the Ford family in Michigan. As a result, the garden is included as a historical place in the corresponding register. In the memorial park there are circular benches to which special paths lead with flowering trees and shrubs planted along them. It seems that everything was created by nature, and not decades of human labor.
Location: New Forest, England
Throughout Europe, the Rothschild family created groups of gardens and parks, which now belong to the most beautiful in the world. Exbury Suburb in England boasts the most beautiful of them. Lionel Nathan Rothschild in 1919, it was here that he came up with the irrigation system, the first in the world. From his travels to Southeast Asia, the Himalayas and other exotic places, Lionel brought and planted rhododendrons, colorful cherries, giant sequoias and Lebanese cedars in the park.
Fantastic amounts were spent on the maintenance of the garden, to which Rothschild devoted his life. Then he crossed the trees, extended the time of their flowering, developed varieties resistant to the local climate, as a result of which the collection he grew would now be valued at millions of dollars. After the death of the creator, the widow had no opportunity to maintain the park, which was then restored by the son of Lionel, Edmund, who made a shopping center here, which allowed the restoration of the garden, which is still in excellent condition.
Location: Salzburg, Austria.
Salzburg was rebuilt in the Baroque style, in which the local Mirabell park was also built, which was laid out in 1690 next to the palace on the site of the garden. Initially, the garden and palace were called Altenau. Mirabell Garden was rebuilt in 1730, a feature of which has survived to the present. Drawings and ancient drawings contributed to the preservation of its appearance - sculptures, terraces and marble fountains.
Mirabelle Garden was brought glory to the world's oldest “green theater” located here. Also, since 1715, the garden of 28 gnomes has been preserved here, the viewing of which pleased the masters. Residents and guests of Salzburg relax in the landscaped garden, whose fountains amaze with their luxury. The main fountain is surrounded by 4 sculptures related to the elements - fire, earth, air and water.
What I would like to say
There are still many gardens in the world with various plants and landscapes, and even if they are not included in the list of the most beautiful gardens on the planet, they nevertheless allow us to appreciate the talent of the people who created them, as well as the beauty of nature. Appreciate the work of people who create the beauty around us and enjoy it.
Tropical Park Nong Nooch (Nong Nooch Tropical Garden) is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Thailand and one of the largest botanical gardens in the world, reflecting the magnificent beauty of nature.
Longwood Gardens - this is the name of the world-famous gardens of Pierre Dupont (Du Pont Gardens), located in Philadelphia. Long-standing traditions and landscape design in Longwood have evolved over many decades, so that eventually tourists will see a real miracle, a place full of charm and harmony with nature.
The beauty and grandeur of the Bahai Gardens in Haifa, combined with the painstaking work of gardeners, create a unique atmosphere. Like all great works of art, these unusual landscapes are a material manifestation of the human spirit, so it is not surprising that this is one of the most popular places in Israel and the Middle East.
The magnificent classical Chinese garden Yu Yuan (Yuyuan Garden) with an area of \u200b\u200babout two hectares, located in the heart of Shanghai's Old Town, is an oasis of calm and harmony. It was specially designed during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) by the wealthy Pan Yunduan official for his parents so that they could enjoy a calm and happy pastime in old age.
Not far from Berlin, in the eastern part of Germany, off the banks of the Havel River, is the capital of Brandeburg - the picturesque town of Potsdam, which is known worldwide for its historical sights by the most prominent architects, builders, scientists and artists.
Mainau Island, which is also called the Island of Flowers, can be safely called one of the most beautiful botanical gardens in the world. This picturesque paradise full of flowers and butterflies should be an obligatory item on the list of every tourist who is a connoisseur of nature and magnificent garden design.
In the north-west of Austria, at the foot of the Alpine mountains, Salzburg is located. The ancient city is the birthplace of Mozart and is known worldwide for its attractions, the main of which is the magnificent gardens of Mirabell.
Claude Monet's gardens, located on the right bank of the Seine in the small picturesque town of Giverny in Normandy, are known worldwide for their paintings by the great artist who lived here from 1883 until his death in 1926. Over the years, he drew inspiration from nature and added to his garden an all-new palette of colors and shades that were reflected in his paintings.
More than a century ago, Jenny Butchart began to create what is now a floral show and one of the world’s masterpieces of landscape design. The Butchart Gardens is a National History Museum of Canada of world renown, which has been open to visitors since 1904.
This amazing place appeared in Scotland in the town of Dumfries in 1989. Instead of exotic flowers and an abundance of shrubs, there are aluminum flower beds, instead of fountains uplifting there are black holes, and the landscape will simply fascinate you with its unusual shapes and riddles.
This is a unique garden of its kind, walking along which you will think that it was not man who created it, but an extraterrestrial civilization.
The era of the Italian Renaissance spawned not only works of fabulous art and architecture, but also a unique park landscape design. Green spaces, symmetrical and decorated with fountains of sparks, sculptures and grottoes, became fashionable during the 15th century.
The landscape design of the Versailles park is determined by the classical geometric form, borrowed from Roman architecture. The traditional French style was developed between the 17th and 18th centuries and was a reflection of wealth and power.
France
Gardens of Versailles
On the official website of Versailles to inspect the gardens and the park are advised to allocate three hours. And yet, it seems that this time is only enough to just look around here. To learn everything, you need a day to walk up - two. Luxury - 900 hectares of a classic regular French park, designed and brought to shine by landscape architect and court gardener of Louis XIV Andre Lenotre - does not tolerate fuss.
Fountains and water stalls, endless bosquets - each is decorated in its own way, - green labyrinths, perfect lawns, trees with crowns in the form of balls and cones, lawns and flower beds ... In the end, at some point you simply might want to get lost .
Vatican Gardens
The fact that the Vatican began to let tourists into its legendary gardens is no longer news. The news is that getting there is a lot easier. There are no restrictions: gardens are open every day except Mondays, and there are queues - tickets for sightseeing minibuses are sold online on the website of the Roman Diocesan Pilgrimage Service (www.operaromanapellegrinaggi.org; from € 48 per ticket, which also includes an audio guide in Russian and visits to the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel). The route begins on Pius XII Square and covers all the main attractions of the gardens, including the famous Grotto Lourdes, a huge flowerbed in the form of a papal coat of arms in front of the Roman Curia and the English Garden, in which, according to rumors, Pope Francis likes to walk.
Claude Monet's Garden
Giverny, France
Claude Monet's Garden
Giverny, 85 km north of Paris, has long been a center of attraction for all lovers of impressionism. They are attracted not only by the Claude Monet house-museum - a mansion buried in flowers with green shutters - but also by a charming landscape garden. His artist himself broke and constantly drew inspiration from him: “Reflection of clouds in a pond with water lilies”, “Irises”, “Weeping willows” and the famous “Water Lilies” - all of them come from here. “Besides painting and gardening, I’m not good for anything,” Monet used to say. And although the master must have been modest, the garden in Giverny is rightfully considered one of his picturesque masterpieces.
The Alhambra
Granada, Spain
The Alhambra
To be in the magnificent oriental gardens, it is not at all necessary to travel outside Europe - just go to Granada, on the hills of which lie the magnificent architectural and park ensemble of the Alhambra. It was built during the reign of the Muslim Nasrid dynasty on the Iberian Peninsula (XIII – XV centuries) and is considered a model of Moorish architecture and garden style.
Pools with crystal water, which reflects the blue sky, silver streams of fountains, shady colonnades and arches with patterned arches, cypress alleys, fragrant boxwood and lush thickets of purple bougainvilleas ... Many want to see this beauty, so it is better to book tickets in advance.
Garden of Solitude (Liu Yuan)
Suzhou, China
Garden of Solitude (Liu Yuan)
A place for philosophical conversations and reading, painting and calligraphy, the delightful Liu Yuan is the embodiment of ideas about the ideal garden landscape in the Ming era. As they said in China in those days, there is always another garden inside a good garden - and here this principle is reflected:
Liu Yuan as if divided into many independent, but complementary species. A retired official, Xu Taishi, who laid the garden at the end of the 16th century, was looking for inspiration in classical Chinese poetry, and each view is an arbor in the shade of young bamboo, a pine tree dropping needles in a stream, sharp stones sticking out of the water - like a quote from Li Bo .
The Eden Project
Cornwall, UK
The Eden Project
It may seem that you found yourself at some fantastic space station, all because of the giant geodesic domes made of transparent plastic (if you remember the film “Die, but not now,” you will understand what it was about: it was these domes that I left chase in one of the scenes of James Bond). Under them are greenhouses with a total area of \u200b\u200b22,000 square meters. m with a collection of plants from around the world - here are created the so-called biomes, microclimatic zones, characteristic of different regions of the planet. And around there are hiking paths, wonderful gardens with organic vegetables and a picturesque neglected park with sculptures of Sue and Peter Hill rising from the ground, whose works, by the way, can be seen in another park in Cornwall County - The Lost Gardens of Heligan.
Padova, Italy
Botanical Garden Orto Botanico
Having examined the frescoes of Giotto in the Scrovegni Chapel - and for the sake of them the majority comes to Padua - linger in the city for an hour or two and visit Orto Botanico. Firstly, this is the oldest of the botanical gardens in the world - it was founded in 1545 at the medical faculty of the University of Padua for the cultivation of medicinal herbs. Secondly, it is listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO as a prototype of all botanical gardens. And finally, it grows with the ten oldest trees in Europe. Among them, for example, a 430-year-old palm tree, nicknamed Goethe's Palm, is believed to have inspired the German poet and naturalist to compose an essay entitled “Plant Metamorphosis”.
Quinta da Regaleira Garden
Sintra, Portugal
Quinta da Regaleira Garden
The architectural and park ensemble - a neo-Gothic palace with carved turrets and gargoyles and an adjoining magnificent garden with gazebo, chapels, grottoes and waterfalls - was built at the beginning of the last century for the eccentric Portuguese millionaire Carvalho Monteiro. This place is full of mysteries: decor elements with a hint of Masonic symbolism, cunning labyrinths, secret tunnels, a spiral gallery symbolizing the Dante circles of hell, and a garden called Eden. Every detail here has its own meaning - even a collection of exotic plants was collected for a reason: they are all mentioned in verses of the Portuguese poet of the 16th century, Luis de Camoes, whose admirer was Monteiro.
Garden of Cosmic Reflections
Dumfries, Scotland
Garden of Cosmic Reflections
One of the most amazing places in the world, The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, or the Garden of Cosmic Thoughts, is the brainchild of postmodernist architect Charles Jenks and his wife, landscape designer Meggie Keswick. While working on the project, Charles was inspired by the ideas of modern cosmology, and Meggy, a specialist in traditional Chinese gardens, was inspired by the philosophy of the Middle Kingdom. As a result, a 16-hectare garden appeared on the territory of their Portrek House family estate, where each object - geometric ponds, unusual shapes of emerald hills, sculptural compositions in the form of DNA spirals, countless steps - suggests the origin of the Universe, the meaning of life and the place of man in the world. The garden is open to visitors only once a year; Information on the next date and time is available at www.scotlandsgardens.org.
Gruner See Park
Tragos, Austria
Gruner See Park
If you are here from October to May, you will see the usual, albeit not without charm picture: tall pine trees with amber trunks, paths, bridges, benches, an emerald lake and many streams flowing into it from the surrounding Hohshvab mountains. But in May, the landscape changes: due to snowmelt, the water level in the lake rises by 10-12 m - and the park turns into an underwater one. A thick trout suddenly emerges from under the bench, a mustached crawl crawls out onto the path, and the purple bells sway in clear water, like real algae. The composition of visitors is also changing - the place of "land" tourists is occupied by divers who come in the summer to the quiet Austrian village of Tragös from all over Europe.
The Lost Gardens of Heligan
Cornwall, UK
Sculptures of Sue and Peter Hill in the Lost Gardens of Heligan.
These gardens were indeed lost for almost 70 years. How is this possible, you ask. And you will learn the story of the estate that belonged to the Tremaine family for 400 years, about a garden laid down in the then fashionable garden garden style at the end of the 19th century with a rich collection of exotic plants, and how all 22 gardeners who worked in Heligan went to the front in World War I and back have not returned. Then the garden began to overgrow, and gradually disappeared completely - under the cover of wild ivy and blackberry. Everything changed only in the late 1970s, when garden architect Tim Smith launched a whole national campaign to save Heligan ... Today you can again walk along the paths leading to romantic grottoes and lakes, and admire the same camellias and picturesque thickets of tree ferns, that pleased the eye of contemporaries of Queen Victoria.
Text: Anna Fedorova
These places of the planet are definitely worth seeing: they are so abundant, vibrant and interesting.
Keukenhof Park, Netherlands. It is considered one of the most luxurious parks in the world. Located between Amsterdam and The Hague, in the town of Liss.
Each year, the park opens for only two months, and then closes to carry out numerous restoration and maintenance work on plants and arboretum. In the spring, usually April 13-15, a flower fair is held where everyone can buy unique seedlings and ready-made bouquets. The park trades only five supplier companies, which also offer souvenirs and postcards with chic views of the park.
Keukenhof - a kitchen park, such is the literal translation of the name. However, you can’t call him small, the area of \u200b\u200bthe park is 32 hectares. It literally drowns in all kinds of colors, canals, waterfalls, lakes. It grows tulips, roses, hyacinths, daffodils. The park was founded in 1949 and is one of the most famous European, and not only Dutch, sights.
A park Xuan Nong Nooch Garden opened in 1980. This place in Thailand is considered one of the most popular. The huge plantation is planted with many decorative large-sized plants and flowers, in addition, here is the largest selection of orchids in the country. The park regularly hosts stately shows that are breathtaking.
In 1954, Mr. Pisit and Mrs. Nong Nooch bought approximately 243 hectares of land in Chonburi province. At first, they dreamed of growing fruits and flowers here, using gardens for themselves, but when tourists tumbled down the ramparts, the flowering lands were luxurious, the idea arose to create decorative elements. Gradually, the garden grew and in 1980 opened to visitors. Mrs. Nong Nooch handed over the management of the garden to her son, and she devoted her life to the study of tropical plants. In the garden, thanks to her research, there are many rare specimens.
Gardens and park of Versailles in France. It was founded by King Louis XIV in 1661. He hired the best architects and artists who realized his dream - the Palace of Versailles and beautiful gardens.
The gardens and park of Versailles are considered part of France’s national heritage. Versailles is a village 24 kilometers from Paris. Gardens spread on 900 hectares. There are 1,400 fountains.
Buchart Gardens in CanadaIs a group of flower gardens in Canada (British Columbia, near Victoria on Vancouver Island). Over a million people visit this place annually.
Robert Pim Butchart, the founder of the gardens, wanted to produce cement on these lands. But in 1907 he met the landscape designer Isaburo Kishida from Yokohama, who wanted to build gardens for his son. Robert Butchart was so inspired by the idea that he did not let the designer go from Canada until 1912. As a result, an amazingly beautiful park was born.
It should be noted that the couple extracted limestone until 1909, but then they finally came to the conclusion that further developments were unpromising, and began to work on the garden. The construction was completed in 1921, at the same time the couple began to receive the first guests. The park is a family heritage, now the owner is the great-granddaughter of the four Butcharts, Robin Lee Clark.
Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden spread over 34 hectares. Hundreds of plant species grow here. The garden is located near Miami in Florida. The creation date of the park is 1938. Today it is a park, research institute, and plantation, which is supported by 45,000 volunteers who are interested in the conservation of rare plant species. In 2012, the park became the headquarters of the American Orchid community.