Most Beautiful Gardens in the World

[Cyrus]

According to this website: http://www.allinfodir.com/info/the-w...l-gardens.html these are the World's 10 Most Beautiful Gardens:

10. Monteiro, Brazil
9. Liu Yuan, China
8. Kirstenbosch, South Africa
7. Viceroy’s Palace Garden, India
6. Shalamar Bagh, Kashmir
5. Ryoanji, Japan
4. Les Quatre Vents, Canada
3. Las Pozas, Mexico
2. Dumbarton Oaks, USA
1. Bagh-e Fin, Iran

Bagh-e Fin (Fin Garden) is in the musum city of Kashan: Museum Cities

Virtual tours of this beautiful garden:


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Some pics:

[Mike____]

gardens? hmm so where are the trees, flowers, plants, natural stuff ?

[Cyrus]

This is "Architecture" forum, not a "Nature" forum, of course you can see some trees in the pics too.

About a garden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden

Constructed elements of a Garden:

Garden beds
Paths
Pool, water garden, or other water elements such as drainage system
Terrace, patio, deck
Lighting
Sculpture,
Buildings such as gazebos, pergolas and follies

For example about gazebos, you can read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazebo

A gazebo is a pavilion structure, sometimes octagonal, in parks, gardens, and spacious public areas. Gazebos are freestanding or attached to a garden wall, roofed, and open on all sides; they provide shade, shelter, ornamental features in a landscape, and a place to rest. Some gazebos in public parks are large enough to serve as bandstands or rain shelters.

Gazebos include pagodas, pavilions, kiosks, belvederes, follies, alambras, pergolas, and rotundas. Such structures are popular in warm and sunny climates. They are in the literature of China, Persia, and many other classical civilizations, going back to several millennia. Examples of such structures are the garden houses at Montacute House.

[Diego N]

Amazing pictures, but, you should post more images about the *gardens* itselves. 8P
Think, would be cool.

[Cyrus]

Ok, this round garden was built by the governor of Yasuj about two hundreds years ago:

Belqeis Garden, Choram

[Commandant]

Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan:
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[tpe]

Such lists are meaningless. For example, Ryoanji is magnificent, but I think that the gardens at Katsura are much more beautiful. The gardens of Persia are also magnificent, but who is to say that they are better than the gardens of Versailles and Italy?

Not a true scholar's garden, and not really classical, but Yuan Ming Yuan is certainly noteworthy.

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[Herzeleid]

what about the Bahai gardens in Haifa?

[tpe]

The domain and gardens of Chatsworth. How can it NOT be considered among the most beautiful gardens in the world? Ridiculous.





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[tpe]

The Villa d'Este. Do we need more examples to illustrate how naive it is to make such lists?

[dark_shadow1]

Bahai World Center, Haifa, Israel:

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[ashwa]

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[Dr.Mabuse]

Vaux-le-Vicomte, France

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Royal Palace of Caserta, Italy

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[Dr.Mabuse]

Hannover

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[Bob!]

Originally Posted by Dr.Mabuse

Hannover

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The Royal Herrenhausen Gardens in Hannover consist of four gardens: the Great Garden, one of Europe's most distinguished baroque formal gardens, the botanical garden Berggarten and two English gardens, the Georgengarten and the Welfengarten.

The Great Parterre with its ornamental box hedges and flowerbeds and the Great Fountain which can reach a maximum height of 80 metres in the background:

Source: HANNOVER.de

The Orangery Parterre and the Gallery Building:
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Orangenparterre by atsubor, on Flickr

The Schmuckhof in the Berggarten with the former library in the background:
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Berggarten Hannover by mv_photo, on Flickr

An alley that runs through the Georgengarten:
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Down the Alley by AccusedToView, on Flickr

The Leibniz Temple in the Georgengarten:
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Hannover Leibniztempel by Sebastian0511, on Flickr

The Welfenschloss in the Welfengarten is the main building of the University of Hannover:
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Leibniz Universität Hannover by Sprengben [why not get a friend], on Flickr

[الغبريني]

حديقة التجارب الحامة

Hamma Garden - Algiers

[stevensp]

Nice thread

Great variaty of gardens
I really love the japanese one..

[Commandant]

Suizenji Garden (Suizenji Jojuen), Kumamoto, Japan:

[ElSevillano22]

Reales Alcázares Gardens (Seville, Spain)

[DanielShin]

ISRAEL, Bhai Gardens