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Bamboo Gardens and Collections Worth Visiting
Bamboo collections around the world offer extraordinary variety in form, scale, and sound — from Japanese temple groves to European botanic garden displays.
Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden: Mauritius's Historic Garden of Giant Water Lilies and Palms
Mauritius's famous water-lily garden traces its roots to an eighteenth-century spice-smuggling scheme.
Arboretums Worth Visiting Around the World
From ancient oak collections in Europe to tropical tree gardens in Asia, these arboretums offer unparalleled access to the world's most extraordinary trees.
Alpine and Rock Gardens of Europe
A guide to the finest alpine and rock gardens across Europe, from dedicated mountain collections to lowland recreations of high-altitude plant communities.
Read more →Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens: A Deep Dive into South Africa's National Garden
South Africa's celebrated botanical garden, set against the slopes of Table Mountain above Cape Town.
Read more →Urban Pocket Parks and Community Gardens
From the High Line to small neighbourhood plots — how cities have rediscovered green space at small scale.
Read more →Rock Garden of Chandigarh: A Deep Dive into Nek Chand's Sculpture Garden
A hidden forest workshop of broken tiles and bangles became one of India's great outsider-art landmarks.
Read more →Villa d'Este vs Villa Lante: A Comparison of the Two Greatest Renaissance Water Gardens
How two Italian gardens of the same generation produced opposed answers to the same design question — and why both are studied as Renaissance masterpieces.
Read more →Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh: A Deep Dive
One of Britain's oldest botanic gardens, reborn on a hillside above Edinburgh with views of the castle skyline.
Read more →Villandry: A Deep Dive into the Loire's Renaissance Kitchen Garden
How Joachim Carvallo restored a sixteenth-century French garden to become the most photographed potager in the world.
Read more →Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid: A Deep Dive into Spain's Royal Botanical Garden
Madrid's Royal Botanical Garden traces two and a half centuries of science, royal patronage, and living plant collections beside the Prado.
Read more →Villa d'Este: A Deep Dive into Tivoli's Renaissance Water Garden
How Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este built the supreme expression of the Italian Renaissance garden.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →The Best Tropical Gardens
From Inhotim to Singapore's Gardens by the Bay — the great tropical botanical gardens.
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