How to get there:an hour by bus from Douglas at Humboldt (Victoria) to Wallace at Lydia.
Entry fee: 33 $ (~ 1573 rubles).
Five in one! Japanese, Italian, Mediterranean, sunken (on the site of a quarry with a large number of streams and reservoirs) gardens and a rose garden are located on 22 hectares of the former quarry. There are about 900 species of plants, which are carefully looked after by the park staff in the difficult Canadian climate. The gardens change their appearance every season, so you can visit at any time of the year. Summer evenings are spentlive music concerts and fireworks every Saturday! Well, if you cherish the dream of breaking something similar (naive) in the country, to the envy of your neighbors, there is a seed store in the Butchart gardens.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, USA, New York
How to get there:Botanic Garden metro station.
Entry fee: 15 $ (~ 940 rubles).
An oasis in the middle of the metropolis, where you can look at several different gardens at once. There is a rose garden with 1,400 types of roses, a garden of typical North American nature (pines, tall grasses and saucer-like zollies), Shakespeare's garden (there are many plants mentioned by the bard in his dramas and sonnets) and a pond with water lilies. Also held in the garden master classes : they learn to make wedding bouquets on their own and brew compost tea (for plants, not for people!), And they also play sports! “Dog facing down” and plank against the backdrop of intoxicating nature - why not.
Claude Monet's garden , France, Giverny
How to get there:from Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris to Vernon-Giverny station, and from there by shuttle bus to the garden.
Entry fee: garden and house - 9.5 € (~ 720 rubles).
If you are not only a lover of botany, but also a fan of art, you are in the town of Giverny, where the Impressionist painter Claude Monet lived and worked for forty years. It is here that the same pond is located, from which Monet painted the famous painting “The Pond with Water Lilies”. You can also visit the artist's house: the walls are still painted in the colors chosen by the artist. So if your muse has left you, you should definitely look for it here!
Kenroku-en park , Japan, Kanazawa
How to get there:to the city of Kanazawa (Kanazawa Station) from the capital of Japan in three hours by train.
Entry fee: 300 yen (~ 2900 rubles).
If you want to feel like the last samurai or Mulan on vacation, visit one of the three Great Gardens of Japan - Kenroku-en. The name of the garden is translated as "Garden of Six Virtues". It seems that this is about the samurai code of honor, but in fact it is about the virtues necessary to create the perfect Japanese garden (yes, there are some):vast territory, solitude, human skill, a touch of antiquity, the flow of water and a beautiful landscape.
Here you can look at the oldest fountain in the country, walk along the Japanese bridges, admire the pagodas, drink tea in a secret tea house overlooking the pond and just take a break from the traditional Japanese madness and the riot of bright colors familiar in megacities. We advise you to come in March - it is at this time that the cherry blossoms bloom and the garden is painted in all shades of pink!
Garden of the Nymph , Italy, 17.6 km. from the city of Latina
How to get there:from public transport trouble, so it's better to take a car or a taxi - the road from Latina will take 25 minutes.
Entry fee: 15 € (~ 1100 rubles).
During the time of the ancient Roman gods, on the territory of the Lazio region there was a temple dedicated to the goddesses of spring water - the Naiad nymphs. Now one of the most romantic parks is located here.according to The New York Times . The place is truly magical: mysterious ruins entwined with roses, tulip trees and ornamental cherries. A little more and you yourself will turn into a nymph or a satyr!
Garden of Cosmic Reflections , Scotland, Dumfries
How to get there:from the city of Dumfries (Whitesands (Stance 3) - Portrak) for half an hour.
Entry fee: 10
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730 rubles), under 18 years old - free of charge.
A garden for romantic nature lovers hiding under the guise of harsh techies. The landscape, monuments and decorations of the garden are dedicated to space and mathematics. Here you will find the Universal Cascades, the DNA Garden, the Fibonacci Sequence sculpture. True, you can get into the park only once a year, and the admission limit is only 1,500 people. So use the mathematical formula and calculate everything so that the ticket is bought in advance, and your vacation coincides with this day.
Architect and landscape designer Charles Jencks is also the co-founder of Maggie Cancer Care Centers, which provide mental health care for cancer patients. The architecture of their buildings is designed to meet all the needs of patients, set them up in a positive way, surround them with beauty and provide practical, psychological and social support. The centers are completely free, you can come there at any time.
Royal Keukenhove Flower Park , Netherlands, Lisse (between Amsterdam and The Hague)
How to get there:from Amsterdam in an hour on two buses: first on one from Amsterdam Sloterdijk to Sassenheim, then on the second toLisse, Vreewijk. You can get from The Hague, also on two buses: from Den Haag Centraal to Leiden Centraal and then to Lisse, Vreewijk.
Entry fee: 17 € (~ 1250 rubles).
Spring Park, open from late March to mid-May. "Garden of Europe" (the second name of the park) is Holland in miniature. There are more than 4.5 million tulips of one hundred varieties. There are a huge number of lakes, ponds and, of course, canals. But the “medical garden” (if you understand what we mean) does not seem to exist. Those who are not the first time in the Netherlands and are already fed up with typical sights will be impressed by three greenhouses, one of which is completely dedicated to orchids.
Nong Nooch , Thailand, Pattaya
How to get there: 35 minutes by car, taxi or moped.
Entry fee: 300 baht (~ 560 rubles) for adults, 150 baht (~
280 rubles) for children for visiting the garden and all shows.
Nong Nooch is 240 hectares of tropical paradise. Cacti, orchids, bonsai (miniature trees) and one of the world's largest collections of palms and ferns. Elephant shows are often held here (fortunately, there is an elephant farm in the park). Of course, there are other typical Thai pleasures: spa, massage, fish restaurant. But the main thing is incredible landscapes and ancient Thai architectural monuments. And the dream of every child is the valley of dinosaurs! Don't be afraid, they are toys, and, of course, they won't bite you, but exotic tropical plants can do it for themselves.
Gardens of the Summer Imperial Palace , China, 8 km from Beijing
How to get there:the garden is located in the vicinity of Beijing, so you can get there by subway to the Beigongmen stop (line 4).
Entry fee: 30 renminbi (~ 280 rubles).
Everyone would have such a summer residence as the Chinese emperor! Just 15 km from Beijing is summer palace, recently included in the heritage of UNESCO. In the gardens of the palace, you can take a boat ride and admire ancient Chinese architecture: the Tower of the Fragrance of the Buddha, the Oriole Voice Hall, the Pavilion of Forgotten Desires and other amazing buildings whose names are similar to shi poetry. If your yin and yang are not all right, after a walk in the park, the balance will be restored.
Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, South Africa, Cape Town
How to get there:from Cape Town by car or taxi in just 14 minutes.
Entry fee: 65 South African rand (~ 300 rubles).
At the foot of one of the seven wonders of nature, Table Mountain, you can see plants that you will not find anywhere else South Africa. This is the first botanical garden in the world to be included in the UNESCO heritage. And no wonder, because many unique South American plants are represented here: artichoke protea, South African crassula or lamprantus. And here you can also meet animals walking in the wild: antelopes, dwarf mongooses, caracals - just about two hundred species mammals, birds and insects. The garden is always beautiful, but the peak of beauty falls on the period from August to November.
In general, if you are bored with the urban jungle and want to move to heaven on earth, you are definitely in one of these gardens: marvel at the ingenuity of mother nature, put your thoughts in order and just feel like a carefree dragonfly. We will support you and in any, even the most heavenly, corner.
On January 21, 1945, the Main Botanical Garden of the USSR Academy of Sciences was founded in Moscow. Today we will talk about it and about the 5 best domestic botanical gardens.
On January 21, 1945, a decision was made to create a new botanical garden in Moscow. The main Russian museum of wildlife, designed to preserve the unique green areas - the Erdenyevskaya grove and the Leonovsky forest, occupied an area of 331.49 hectares. The largest of the botanical gardens of old Europe acquired its modern look thanks to the efforts of landscape architects Petrov and Rosenberg, who focused on the greatest compliance with natural conditions. The Moscow kingdom of plants has gathered within its limits representatives of flora from all climatic zones and continents of our planet. Its collections include more than 16 thousand plants, including 1900 species of trees and shrubs, over 5000 various representatives flora tropics and subtropics, an extensive rose garden and beautiful garden continuous flowering. Tours of the arboretum introduce interesting and useful facts about indoor floriculture, diversity, harm and benefits of tropical organisms, interior gardening.
The picturesque garden and park ensemble, created at the end of the 19th century by the publisher of the Petersburg Newspaper, Sergei Khudekov, is perfect place for recreation and walks, as well as a popular attraction for guests of Sochi. Each part of the Sochi Arboretum, cut in half by Kurortny Prospekt, is decorated in its own style. The central one, recreating the green areas of sunny Italy, is full of exquisite decorative elements, carved pavilions and sculptures depicting scenes from myths. The main part of the botanical garden is a real English park, emphasizing the natural beauty of wildlife. Summer always reigns on the territory of the arboretum: many of the more than two thousand species of rare and exotic plants from all over the planet are evergreen. Here, peacocks stroll slowly, ducks, swans and even pelicans swim in picturesquely overgrown lakes, and ostriches live in the northwest. Every 15 minutes trailers run between the Upper and Lower Parks cable car, facilitating movement through the magnificent realm of peace and quiet in the heart of bustling Sochi.
The green corner of St. Petersburg, which was born in 1714, has come a long way from a small pharmacy garden that provided the armed forces with medicinal herbs Russian Empire, to an extensive complex of 26 greenhouses measuring 22.9 hectares. In the early Soviet years, the already rich Botanical Garden Peter the Great moved tropical and subtropical plants from the collections of royal palaces and mansions of the aristocracy, but during the blockade of Leningrad, the arboretum naturally fell into decay. Only in the post-war period, thanks to assistance from Sukhumi and the supply of greenhouse plants from the Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences, he again revived in its former beauty and grandeur. Today's Botanical Garden of Peter the Great is famous for the most luxurious collection of greenhouse plants in Russia, annually receives more than 150 thousand guests and conducts numerous excursions. Since November, the arboretum has been hosting the Rainbow Shards exhibition, which presents a variety of blooming orchids and bromeliads, as well as educational workshops on caring for whimsical green beauties.
The northernmost botanical garden in the Russian Federation, located beyond the Arctic Circle, was opened on August 26, 1931. His work is one big experiment designed to study the possibility of the existence of plants from different climatic zones in the harsh conditions of the Far North. During the existence of the arboretum, more than 30 thousand various representatives of the flora have visited here, about 3500 of which managed to take root in the ground Kola Peninsula. The Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden does not disdain scientific research: for example, during the Great Patriotic War, a method for extracting glucose syrup from lichens was invented here. Among the green exhibits of the institute there are over 650 species of moss, more than four hundred different plants inhabiting Murmansk region, as well as about a thousand species of "migrants" from the tropics and subtropics. During the year, the botanical garden on the territory of the Khibiny Mountains receives over 2.5 thousand visitors, exchanges seeds and sprouts with botanical gardens in more than 30 countries of the world. Among the unique collections of the arboretum are a snowdrop garden, a rocky garden and a living herbarium.
The Rostov arboretum, established in April 1927, initially occupied only about 74 hectares, but eventually grew to more than 160 hectares. The garden almost immediately became part of the North Caucasian State University, now known as the Southern Federal University, and operated mainly as a research and teaching unit. In 1927, a tree and ornamental nursery appeared in the garden, a little later, separate collections of fruit and berry plants, nuts, a rose garden and a syringarium were formed, and then a fund of coniferous crops appeared. In 1992, the SFedU Botanical Garden became a natural monument of regional significance. In addition to a large collection of plants from around the world, numbering 5,000 shrubs and trees and 1,500 greenhouse specimens, there is a unique piece of natural steppe and revered by Orthodox Christians. mineral spring Seraphim of Sarov. The Arboretum offers a good excursion program, landscaping services and landscape design, sells fruit trees and rare flowers.
Lovely green area Novosibirsk region, which has been in existence for the 68th year, is spread over a whole thousand hectares. The Central Siberian Botanical Garden has a dozen scientific laboratories and three branches: in Altai, Chita and Kemerovo. The emerald massifs of coniferous and birch forests are cut through by the picturesque Zyryanka River, which gives the garden a certain natural charm. The collection of the garden has collected more than 7 thousand different plants, which are combined into colorful zones: Bonsai Park, Rocky Garden, Waltz of Flowers, Garden of Continuous Bloom. TsSBS is rightfully proud of the best herbarium in Russia, covering half a million leaves and more than 1200 various seeds. In the near future, it is planned to open a new unusual exposition here - the kingdoms of the famous inhabitants of the subtropics, cacti, each of which its keeper is ready to tell a separate story with pleasure. The Siberian Botanical Garden conducts excursions for children and adults, sells seedlings for local areas, and also serves great place for family holidays.
The park in Bogoroditsk near Tula occupies a special place in the history of Russian landscape art. Firstly, due to the fact that it was created in that critical period when the new landscape style of park building was just beginning its victorious march through numerous estates scattered across the central and remote provinces of Russia. At that moment, the question was being decided whether they would follow foreign models or go their own ways, based primarily on local natural and climatic conditions, established national cultural traditions, and rich domestic experience in garden architecture.
Central Park of Culture and Leisure in Leningrad. Nikolsky A.S.
« central park culture and recreation in Leningrad. Nikolsky A.S. Published according to the publication “Problems of garden and park architecture. Digest of articles". Publishing house of the All-Union Academy of Architecture. Moscow. 1936. The history of the Leningrad Central Park of Culture and Leisure begins on December 3, 1931, when the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, in their historic decision on the socialist reconstruction of Leningrad, decided to create a park of culture and recreation with a large sports stadium on the Elagin and Krestovsky Islands. In 1932, the Leningrad TsPKiO launched its work only on Elagin Island with its wonderful, well-preserved park. Krestovsky Island, this bare, swampy, windswept lowland, was still to receive its own park.
Park them. Kirov in Baku. Ilyin L.A.
"Park them. Kirov in Baku. Ilyin L.A. Published according to the publication “Problems of garden and park architecture. Digest of articles". Publishing house of the All-Union Academy of Architecture. Moscow. 1936. Pronounced features geographical location Baku, dry desert conditions, difficult for park construction, make this experience not only interesting from the point of view of overcoming nature and using it at the same time, but also instructive for the practice of park composition in similar and close conditions. The park is located on the slopes of hills and plateaus - the highest spurs of the Caucasus Range within the city at its exit to the Caspian Sea. On the entire coast south of Makhach-Kala there is not a single point where the mountains approach the sea so close and so boldly.
Ensemble of the Catherine Park of Tsarskoye Selo
Ensemble Catherine's Park: A regular part of Catherine's Park (Old Garden). garden sculpture. Hermitage Museum. Grotto. Hall on the island of the Big Pond. Granite terrace. Upper bath. Lower bath. Hermitage kitchen. Admiralty. Sadovaya Embankment and Lower Ponds. Landscape part of the Catherine Park. Ruin tower. Chesme column. Cahul obelisk. Morean column. Crimean column. Turkish bath. Palladium Bridge. Hill of "wild stone", "Pudostsky bridge" and the Red cascade. Gates of Gatchina. Pyramid. Monument to A.D. Lansky. Concert hall. Ruin kitchen. Small whim. Evening hall. Cast iron gazebo. Gothic gate. Gate "To my dear colleagues." Cadet Gate. Fountain "Milk".
Ensemble of the Alexander Park of Tsarskoye Selo
Alexandrovsky Park Ensemble: Regular part of Alexander Park ( new garden). Chinese village. Big whim. Chinese theatre. Cross Bridge. Creaky gazebo. Chinese bridges. Alexander Palace. Landscape part of the Alexander Park. Chapelle. White Tower. Farm. Retirement stables. Lama pavilion. Arsenal. Fedorovsky town. The Egyptian Gates. Babolovsky palace and park. Alexander Park, due to differences natural resources and historical features of the formation, is significantly different in nature from the Catherine Park. The oldest part of Alexander Park - the New Garden - is laid out in a regular style. The breakdown of the landscape part of the park was carried out only at the beginning of the 19th century.
Summer garden in St. Petersburg
Peter I chose a place for his summer residence on the left bank of the Neva, at the mouth of the river. Erika (Fontanka), almost opposite the Peter and Paul Fortress. The garden was founded in 1704-1706. and took at first only northern part plot that goes directly to the Neva. At the same time, the main contours of that system of straight alleys perpendicular to each other were determined, which, in general terms, has come down to our time. Some researchers believe that the owner of the garden himself outlined the direction of the alleys, the position of the first flower beds and fountains, but the first plan of the Summer Garden known to us was drawn up by J. Roosen. This plan already shows the palace just built according to the project of D. Trezzini, which occupied not the central position on the site, but its north-eastern corner next to the small harbor on the Fontanka ...
Historical sketch of the development of the palace and park ensembles of Tsarskoye Selo
Ensembles of palaces and parks in Tsarskoye Selo took shape over a century and a half. There are four stages in their formation. The first of them - 1710-1720. This is the time of the appearance of the country royal residence - the Sarskaya manor, with a small stone palace of Catherine I and a regular garden. In the middle of the 18th century, after the reconstruction of the palace, redevelopment and expansion of the parks, the Sarskaya manor turned into a grandiose ensemble, surpassing in size all other palace residences in Russia. The next period began in the 1760s-1770s, simultaneously with the emergence of a new style in Russian architecture - classicism. The work carried out at this stage to create landscape parks in the area adjacent to the old regular gardens was not fully completed at the end of the 18th century. They continued into the first half of the 19th century.
Fountains of Peterhof
The ensemble of parks, palaces and fountains of Peterhof-Petrodvorets, located 29 km from Leningrad and arose in the first quarter of the 18th century, is a kind of triumphal monument in honor of the successful completion of Russia's struggle for access to the Baltic Sea. Regular parks, 144 fountains and 3 cascades, gilded statues of gods and heroes of antiquity, majestic architecture of palaces - all this expresses the idea of the triumph of Russia, "feasting on the open sea." The beginning of the construction of Peterhof dates back to 1714. The idea of creating an ensemble (the main layout of the central and eastern parts The lower park, the combination of a palace, a grotto with a cascade and a canal into one compositional whole) belongs to Peter I. Often, mentioning the desire of Peter I to see here in Peterhof a residence that "befits the first sovereigns" ...
Architectural and park ensemble of Kuskovo
The architectural and park ensemble of Kuskovo is one of the most remarkable monuments of Russian art. Created in the 18th century, it fully absorbed the achievements of the manor construction of the era. Peculiar architectural ensembles near Moscow, they become widespread at the end of the first third of the 18th century, when the noble nobility returned to the ancient ancestral lands. Of the surviving estates near Moscow, Kuskovo is the earliest, giving an idea of the type of Elizabethan estates. It was located 7 miles from Moscow, between the Vladimir and Ryazan roads. Since 1715, these lands belonged to an associate of Peter I - a prominent military leader, the hero of the Battle of Poltava, Field Marshal B.P. Sheremetev. The Kuskovo Ensemble was created over several decades. In 1755, a large pond was dug here, which made it possible to drain the low-lying and swampy place...
Manor Ostankino
The ancient Ostankino estate near Moscow is of particular interest to us because its ensemble was formed mainly for a very long time. short term- 10 years, although it has existed since the 16th century. Another feature is its "recreational" purpose, which was reflected in the specific nature of garden compositions. Ostankino is a unique monument of Russian culture of the 18th century, an example of a creative synthesis of architecture, garden and park art, theater, painting, sculpture, works of arts and crafts, amazing in its perfection, which merged into a single artistic whole. The estate, the palace, the park and everything in them were created by the talent and labor of hundreds of peasants, artisans and craftsmen. The Ostankino Gardens are an integral part of this one-of-a-kind ensemble...
Pavlovsky park
When in Tsarskoe Selo the Great Catherine Palace was already shining with its splendor, on the site of the future Pavlovsk there were still dense forests, the silence of which was occasionally broken only by court hunting. Pavlovsk Park is younger than Tsarskoye Selo and other imperial residences in the vicinity of St. Petersburg, it is better preserved. It reflected the heyday of Russian classicism in its purest form, it was created in a fairly short period of time - 50 years - and is distinguished by the special artistic integrity of its ensemble - gardens, architecture, sculpture. This is the only example of Russian landscape architecture of its kind, a glorified masterpiece in which new trends in landscape art have found their fullest expression...
Palace and park complex of Tsarskoye Selo
The country residence of the wife of Peter I, Ekaterina Alekseevna Tsarskoe Selo, was founded in 1708, 6 years after the liberation of Koporye from the Swedish troops. It was located on the site of the former Swedish "Sarskaya Manor" in a picturesque and vast area, on a gentle hill, near the small river Vangazi. Old wooden buildings, an orchard, a pond at first became the core of the future estate. After 1716, when the wooden Church of the Dormition was built here, the Sarskaya manor (“Island-manor”) received the name of Tsarskoye Selo. The creation of the first stone chambers here, the expansion of outbuildings also dates back to this time. Unlike the palace and park complexes of Peter the Great, Catherine's estate retained the appearance of a Russian estate for a long time and reflected in its appearance the traditional and simple way of life...
Memorial complex "Mound of Glory" in Minsk
The Mound of Glory immortalized the feat of arms of the Soviet Army and partisans. It was laid down on September 30, 1966. The land of Belarus was mixed in it with the land of hero cities, other places that glorified themselves by military and labor achievements. A memorial was erected to mark the 25th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis. The grand opening took place on July 5, 1969. Its authors are sculptors A. Bembel, A. Artimovich, architects O. Stakhovich, L. Mitskevich and engineer V. Laptsevich. The mound, 70 meters 60 centimeters high, is crowned with four bayonets, symbolizing the four fronts that liberated Belarus. At the base of the bayonets, which are held together by a two-meter-high ribbon-belt, there are mosaic orders of Glory and the Patriotic War.
Gardens of Granada. Alhambra and Generalif. Alhambra & Generalife
Having borrowed the experience of Egypt and Rome in arranging irrigation facilities, the Arabs were able to use the melting snow to mountain peaks and created a powerful hydraulic system, turning waterless Spain into a flourishing land. Here a new type of garden was formed - the Spanish-Moorish. This is a small courtyard (200-1200 m²) of an atrium-peristyle type (patio), surrounded by the walls of a house or a fence, is a continuation of the front and living quarters under open sky. The complex of such miniature patios, included in the complex structure of the palace, is represented by the gardens of Grenada, created in the 13th century. in the residences of the caliphs - Alhambra(650 X 200 m) and Generalife(area 80X100 m). In the Alhambra, the palace premises were grouped around the Court of Myrtle and the Court of Lions. The courtyard of the myrtle (47 X 33 m) is surrounded by walls of buildings with an elegant arcade, richly decorated with ornaments.
Versailles. Parc de Versailles
The place of Versailles, located near Paris, was a royal estate and was a flat wetland, partly covered with undergrowth. On this territory in the period from 1661 to 1700 Le Nôtre, together with the architect. Levo and Mansart and the artist Lebrun created a palace and park ensemble. Its dimensions are grandiose: the so-called Small Park occupied an area of 1738 hectares, and the adjoining Large Hunting Park - 6600 hectares. First, preliminary work was launched to prepare the territory - draining the area with the help of canals, creating reservoirs that feed the park's water devices, and adding land to a large area. For planting, a huge number of trees were brought from various regions of France and other countries. However, despite all efforts, the plantings turned out to be short-lived and after 150 years some of the trees had to be replaced.
Vaux-le-Vicomte. Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte
Vaux-le-Vicomte - (fr. Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte) - a classic French manor-palace of the XVII century, located in the vicinity of Melun, 55 km southeast of Paris. Built for Nicolas Fouquet, Viscount Vaud and Melun, superintendent of finance under Louis XIV. The park ensemble was created by A. Lenotre together with the architect. Left and the artist Lebrun. When laying the garden (1656-1661), 18 thousand people worked. On a vast territory, 3 villages were demolished, a forest was cut down, the relief was transformed, the riverbed was changed. The area of the park is 100 hectares. In its northern part there is a palace surrounded by a canal in the spirit ancient castles, which is the center of the composition. The southern facade of the palace faces the park. From it, in three low terraces, a wide strip of open space gently descends to the south, framed by arrays of bosquets.
Stowe Park. Stowe Landscape Gardens
Stowe Park(Stowe Landscape Gardens) is located 96 km from London. The area of the park is 100 hectares, and together with the adjacent lands that make up one whole with it - 500 hectares. Initially, there was a regular park created by arch. J. Vanberg, in 1714 it was rebuilt by architect. C. Bridgeman, and in 1738 - W. Kent and L. Brown. The center of the composition is the palace, which stands on elevated elevations in the alignment of an open meadow, elongated from north to south and forming the main axis of the park. In the lower part there is a pond - its second compositional center. The three-dimensional solution is based on a combination of alternating closed arrays with open spaces of a reservoir and lawns, where stand-alone trees and groups form landscape paintings. The park is full of buildings in the spirit of romanticism, stylistically associated with the architecture of the palace.
Villa Lante. Villa Lante
The construction of Villa Lante was also carried out according to the project of arch. Barozzi da Vignola in the 50s of the 16th century. It is located in the town of Bagnaia, 84 km from Rome. The Duke of Montalto was the owner of the villa. The area of the garden is 1.5 hectares, the difference in relief is 16 m. Here, as in the Villa Caprarola, the theme of the stream flowing down the mountain and forming the longitudinal axis of the garden is used. However, with the general similarity of the plan, the solution to this topic is significantly different. The architect, "dividing" the house into two volumes and arranging them symmetrically to the axis, as if parted the path with a stream. The lower terrace - the entrance part of the garden - is designed as a flat parterre (75X75 m), divided into a number of squares. Their module includes a water parterre with round island in the center, where a sculptural group of young men (height 10 m), supporting the coat of arms of Montalto with their hands, gives a monumental vertical.
Villa d "Este. Villa Tivoli. Villa d" Este
Villa d "Este, Villa Tivoli (Italian "villa d" Este") is located 80 km from Rome in the city of Tivoli, its owner was Cardinal d "Este. Built in the 40s of the 16th century. Author - architect Pirro Ligorio, water devices were created by engineer Olivieri.The area of the garden is 3.5 hectares, the difference in relief is 35 m.The palace is located on the upper point, and the garden is laid out on the slope.The steep slope is terraced, transverse axes pass along the narrow terraces, parterre (70X70 m. Mutually perpendicular roads form rectangles of bosquets. The main axis is directed from the lower parterre to the palace. On this axis, the most important compositional node is the Dragon Fountain, located on the site below the foot of the palace, and three groups of cypresses - on the parterre, near the reservoirs of the transverse axis and the Dragon Fountain, forming powerful vertical accents.
Sefton Park in Liverpool. Sefton Park. Liverpool
Sefton Park in Liverpool (Sefton Park. Liverpool). Author - arch. E. Andre. The construction of the park began in 1867 on an area of 156 hectares. The area was previously used for farmland and was surrounded by private buildings. From north to south, it was crossed by a channel, which was then turned into a series of artificial ponds and streams. The park has a clear functional zoning and includes lawns for sports, a garden, a deer park, a restaurant, a music pavilion and a botanical garden, allocated in a separate area with its own layout. The road network forms ellipses, circles and smooth curves in plan, limiting the contours of open spaces. Due to the large scale, the road lines are not perceived in nature as geometric curves. Along the periphery, a road for riding was laid and shelters for recreation were arranged.
Villa Farnese. Castle of Caprarola. Villa Farnese
Villa Farnese (Italian: Villa Farnese), also known as Caprarola Castle. 70 km from Rome, not far from the town of Caprarola, architect. Barozzi da Vignola in 1547-1550 built a castle for Cardinal Farnese. Above the slope, 300 m from the castle, a small house was built and a garden was laid out for secluded relaxation (an example of a “secret garden”). Despite its small size, the garden is designed monumentally - in large proportions, without superfluous small details, using local material. Thus, it organically merges with the surrounding landscape and the ensemble of the castle. From the lower platform of the first level, decorated with a fountain, the road rises along a gentle ramp, decorated with a stream flowing along it and closed on both sides by walls, to the second level - a platform richly decorated with fountains and monumental statues of river gods.
Shugakuin Imperial Villa Ensemble in Kyoto
On the northeastern outskirts of Kyoto, the retired emperor Gomitsuno planned the Shugakuin ensemble with an extensive garden-park. The first part of the work was completed between 1656 and 1659, but then, with a break, work continued for several more years. The uniqueness of Shugakuin composition among Japanese garden ensembles associated with its location on three levels - terraces rising one above the other along the mountainside. This is what determined the general spatial construction of the ensemble and the specific solution of each of its parts. Unlike Katsura, the main scale and main emotional tone of Shugakuin was set in the background - a view of the distant silhouettes of mountains and trees (which is called "sakkei"), and all artificially constructed elements of the garden became the foreground of the composition and received a subordinate role.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
One of the first public ensembles of post-war Japan - Peace Park in Hiroshima(architect Kenzo Tange, 1949-1956), conceived and implemented as a synthesis of national and modern spatial and constructive-plastic ideas. The park is located on the territory of the former Nakajima district, completely destroyed as a result of the atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945. On the territory of 12.2 hectares there is the Peace Memorial Museum, many monuments, a ritual bell and a cenotaph. The ensemble consists of a vast area for manifestations (it is covered with white pebbles) with a laconic and mournful monument-arch (Monument "Flame of Peace"), light buildings of the museum, administrative building and library raised on pillars. The skeleton of one of the few buildings that survived during the atomic bombing, visible in the background, is also visually included in the ensemble.
About Myoshinji Monastery Gardens in Kyoto Boboli Gardens. Giardino di Boboli
Boboli Gardens (Italian: Giardino di Boboli) - famous park in Florence, one of the best park ensembles of the Italian Renaissance. The Boboli Gardens are located on the slopes of the Boboli Hill behind the Pitti Palace, the main residence of the Medici Grand Dukes of Tuscany and are one of the most famous works of garden and park art of the 16th century. In accordance with the tastes of that time, the park is divided by long axial paths, wide gravel paths, it is decorated with decorative stone elements, statues and fountains. The Boboli Gardens are divided into a private area with limited access and a public area with grottoes, nymphs, open garden temples with colonnades made in the classical style. An unusual feature of the Boboli Gardens for its time is the magnificent views of the city that open from them.
Joruriji Monastery Garden in Kyoto
The garden of the Joruriji monastery on the outskirts of Kyoto belongs to the rarest type of Amidian-type gardens of the Heian period. The building of the temple was built in 1107, it was installed in the current place in 1157. It is considered one of the finest examples of Buddhist temple architecture from the late Heian period. On the east bank of the pond, a graceful pagoda, originally erected in Kyoto and moved here in 1178, rises among the trees. The temple and pagoda are located opposite each other, symbolizing the eastern and western Buddhist paradise. The layout of the garden near the temple is an attempt to find and express in the components of wildlife a symbolic expression of the world order, highest point which is the "Western Paradise of Buddha Amida". Just like it wasn't fundamental difference religious and secular architecture, the Amidian temple gardens and palace gardens are so close in their features.
Garden of Kinkakuji Temple (Golden Pavilion) in Kyoto
Quite sizable Zen landscape gardens often arose from palace gardens of the shinden type. Thus, the Kitayama Palace, built by the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu in 1397, was then converted into the Rokuonji Temple (Deer Garden Temple), or Kinkakuji (Golden Pavilion), and the garden was reconstructed in accordance with the aesthetic canons of Zen of the Rinzai school. Unlike earlier Japanese architecture, the meaning of such a work as the Golden Pavilion, its content is revealed only in comparison with nature, unity with it. Architecture and nature become equivalent parts of the artistic image. But natural nature, not artistically organized, could not enter into this unity; it had to be transformed in accordance with the same principles that guided the architect-builder.
Ginkakuji Temple Garden (Silver Pavilion) in Kyoto
The Silver Pavilion - Ginkakuji (or Higashiyama-den, the official name of the temple is Jisho-ji), built in 1489 by the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa under the impression of the Kinkaku-ji Golden Pavilion, which was built by his grandfather Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and later became a Buddhist temple. In the history of Japanese architecture, the Silver Pavilion is a transitional phenomenon, it combines the features of the Shinden style with new elements of residential architecture of the so-called Shoin style. Like the Golden Pavilion, it stands on the shore of a lake, and sliding walls (a new shoin style detail) directly separate the interior from the garden space. When the walls are moved apart, this separation disappears and nature, as it were, enters the interior of the house. Such a fusion with the natural environment was reflected in the spatial solution of the interior and, moreover, in the whole concept of architecture, its new connection with the environment.
Gardens of Tofukuji Monastery in Kyoto
Tofukuji is a Buddhist temple complex in southeastern Kyoto. The sanmon temple gate is the oldest of the Zen temple gates in Japan and is national treasure. The height of the building is 22 meters. Within the territory of temple complex there are many gardens, the largest of which are North, South, West, East and Hojo Garden. Mirei Shigemori, author of one of the most famous modern temple ensembles, Komyo-in at Tofukuji Monastery in Kyoto (1939). The entire "vocabulary" of Mirei Shigemori's art dates back to Zen symbolic gardens (such as kare san-sui), but the very use of well-known symbols, their combination and contrast in one composition marks the master with a new vision and feeling. Shigemori, before becoming a garden designer, diligently studied the history of gardening, measured and made plans for more than 500 gardens.
Wonders of nature, along with the most popular attractions, attract the attention of travelers from all over the world who are ready to go to another continent to enjoy the view of purple wisteria, soak in the tart aroma of lavender or walk through the world's longest flower greenhouse. The most famous and luxurious flower gardens and parks from Japan to Canada are in our review.
provence
From late June to mid-August, Provence becomes the epicenter tourist france. Romantics from all over the world come here to stroll through the lush olive groves, find the cosiness and tranquility of the countryside and, of course, marvel at the endless lavender fields. And although lavender grows in almost every garden in Provence, in order to see the fragrant sea of flowers, you need to lay your route through the north of the region. The most amazing views of the purple infinity open in the areas of Drome Provencal, Vaucluse and the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
Kawachi Fuji Garden
Just a few hours drive from Tokyo is one of the most striking flower parks in the world, the Kawachi Fuji Garden. Thousands of unique and rare varieties of flowers and plants from all over the planet grow here, but the garden is famous primarily for the mesmerizing Wisteria Tunnel. A shower of hanging garlands of white, pink and lilac wisteria stretches for many kilometers, winding labyrinths, creating cozy corridors, covering centuries-old trees. According to Japanese tradition, a garden is not perfect unless it contains at least one wisteria. In this sense, Kawachi Fuji is the limit of the perfection of nature.
Keukenhof
TO royal park flowers Keukenhof, located in the Dutch town of Lisse, only superlatives are applicable - the most famous, largest and even the most photographed, according to the world manufacturer of photographic equipment. Almost 5 million tulips of more than a hundred different varieties bloom annually on an area of 32 hectares. In addition to tulips of all shades possible in nature, the Garden of Europe, as the Keukenhof is also called, presents roses, orchids, daffodils, lilacs, hyacinths, crocuses. The best time to visit the park is from March to the end of May, and in April there is an annual flower parade here, which has no analogues in the world in terms of scope, complexity of the compositions presented and beauty.
Dubai Miracle Garden
A flower oasis with a small European city in the middle of a hot desert - this is only possible in Dubai. Over 45 million flowers of various kinds bloom in Dubai Miracle Garden from October to May. The park staff is proud to say that the palette of their flower garden includes more than 60 different shades. Winding paths with a length of four kilometers are surrounded by numerous arches, geometric flower beds and landscape compositions. Among the brightest and loudest exhibits are the flower clock, which was included in the Guinness Book of Records, a 10-meter pyramid and a miniature copy of the Chinese Wall, though only 800 meters long, but made of roses, orchids and azaleas.
The Butchart Gardens
More than a century ago, the Butchart family of industrialists from Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada) decided to set up a flower garden on their land, which is today named a national historical treasure. Designer Isaburo Kishida took part in the landscape design of the park, who recreated the atmosphere of a secluded Japanese garden with traditional paraphernalia - murmuring streams, waterfalls, wooden bridges on a distant land of immigrants. The Butchart Gardens is open to visitors all year round, seasonal flowers and plants replace each other, so it is equally colorful and secluded at any time of the year.
Ecology
Each garden can be called amazing and beautiful in its own way. Whether it's a tiny garden set up on your windowsill, or a huge, manicured botanical garden (some of which will be listed below). Any garden or park helps us to appreciate the beauty of nature, surprises us with its variety of colorful flora.
Our world would be a sad place without beautiful botanical gardens laid out to be symbols of a leader's greatness, or monuments to man's love for plants, or simply collections of rare and beautiful plants. We invite you to get acquainted with some of the most beautiful and amazing gardens and parks on the planet.
1) Vertical Garden of the Quai Branly Museum, Paris, France
The streets in this area of Paris mimic the meandering river Seine. One of them houses the Quai Branly Museum. The museum buildings have unusual architectural forms, but the administrative wing attracts the most attention. This four-story building with a slightly curved exterior is covered from base to roof with a wide variety of plants.
Created by botanist and landscape designer Patrick Blanc, this garden includes 15,000 plants and 170 different species. The garden is an amazingly beautiful example of an urban vertical garden, which allows you to present amazing biodiversity within a cramped city. Among the plants that grow on the museum building are the following: ferns, ivy, sedge, mosses, liverworts, bergenia, herbs and geyhera.
The patented system that Blank developed to keep the garden upright consists of heavy-duty roofing paper held up by plastic struts. Plastic and cardboard support the roots of plants, allowing water to freely reach them. The entire structure is supported by a metal frame that allows plant "shelves" to be kept on the front of the building, reducing the chance that roots can damage the building. The drip irrigation system at the very top of the wall works continuously, supplying the plants and their roots with the necessary moisture and nutrients.
2) Lost Gardens of Heligan Botanical Garden, Cornwall, UK
From the mid-18th century to the early 20th century, the Tremaine family of Cornwall created and maintained a large garden located on their estate. After the loss of most of the gardeners after the First World War, the garden was neglected, and continued to deteriorate during and after the Second World War. The garden was abandoned, the plants in it grew strongly, and the former beauty has sunk into oblivion. However, the situation changed at the end of the 20th century, when one of the descendants of the Tremayne family inherited these lands, along with an abandoned garden. Looking around, the family realized that among the chaos reigning here, there are still remnants of its former beauty, and if you make an effort, you can restore it.
The enchanting Heligan Garden has been recreated in a "gardenesque" style, meaning that different parts of the garden have very different moods and draw attention to different things. In the garden you can find some very old rhododendrons and camellias, the only fruit-bearing pineapples in Europe, "jungle" with subtropical tree ferns and many other plants. Today, the garden is open to the public, and unusual sculptures in the park attract many tourists.
3) Nong Nooch Tropical Park, Thailand
This amazing park, covering an area of 200 hectares, was originally supposed to be fruit plantations. Instead, the park owners decided to plant tropical plants and flowers here. The result exceeded all expectations.
The entire area of the park is divided into several theme and exhibition gardens, including cactus and succulent gardens, the French Garden, the Stonehenge-style garden, gardens displaying colorful flowers, orchids and bromeliads, Butterfly Hill, which includes tropical plants that attract butterflies. Nong Nooch is also home to a vast collection of cycads, containing at least one representative of every cycad on the planet.
4) Arctic-Alpine Botanical Garden, Tromsø, Norway
As the northernmost botanical garden, this garden boasts a rich collection of arctic and alpine plants from across the Northern Hemisphere.
The garden is laid out in a place where arctic and alpine plants can co-exist. The garden features 20 different collections. Visitors are told about plants and alpine regions. The "Geological Walk" will help you learn more about the rocks of Norway.
5) Rikugien Garden, Tokyo, Japan
Word "rikugien" translated from Japanese as "garden of six kinds of poetry". This beautiful garden in Tokyo features 88 landscapes that represent Famous places Japan and China, refer to historical events, in the language of nature convey poetry.
The Rikugien Garden was laid out in the late 17th and early 18th centuries by Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, who received the land as a gift from the fifth shogun, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. Some of the attractions of the garden are a quiet pond and islands, tea houses, forested areas. The garden is home to over 600 species of trees, including maples, camellias, magnolias and azaleas.
Gardens of this type are amazing not only because they give pleasure to those who walk in them, they also inspire the creation of their own gardens. Here you can find a huge variety of plants, landscapes that are pleasing to the eye, peace and tranquility reign here.
6) Las Pozas Park, Mexico
The work of the surrealist painter and eccentric poet Edward James, Las Pozas Garden rivals the Garden of Eden. Unusual sculptures, waterfalls and exotic tropical plants occupy an area of about 40 hectares in the subtropical Mexican forest.
James conceived the creation of an unusual garden of Eden back in 1940 and decided that Mexico could be the perfect place for this. In November 1945, with the help of a guide, he found suitable territory near the village of Xilitla. For over 30 years, James has been building surreal concrete structures and sculptures for the park, which today are surrounded by tropical greenery.
7) Jardin Canario Botanical Garden, Canary Islands
This small group of Spanish islands located in Atlantic Ocean, not far from the northwestern coast of Africa, has sheltered a huge number of plants of amazing beauty, and many of them can be found in the Jardin Canario botanical garden. The garden contains one of the richest collections of cacti and succulents, which has over 10 thousand species.
The construction of the park began in 1952, and the garden was officially opened to the public in 1959. Working in the garden today a large number of scientists and biologists who help find new species, as well as conduct various programs for the protection of the environment. There is a library, rich herbariums and scientific laboratories. The garden also publishes its own magazine.
8) Katsura Imperial Villa Gardens, Japan
The gardens around the Imperial Villa Katsura are some of the finest examples of Japanese horticulture. Established in the early 17th century by the Katsura imperial dynasty, the gardens include a beautiful pond with several bridges, cherry trees and more.
9) Garden at the Palace of Versailles, France
The gardens of Versailles were once created as part of the palace-complex ensemble, and surround beautiful palace- the former residence of the French kings. The gardens can really be called royal, as they were laid out under the leadership of King Louis XIV. The park is of great tourist importance, like the whole complex; millions of tourists from all over the world come here every year. The park is also considered one of the largest in Europe.
10) Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa
Nestled at the foot of Table Mountain, the beautiful Kirstenbosch Gardens are known for their breathtaking views and large collection of various plants. The main focus here is not on entertainment, but on the preservation of native plants, which makes the garden especially unusual, so many visitors flock here. Kirstenbosch is dedicated to the rare, endangered plants of this region. Garden employees are working on the reproduction of these plants and the restoration of natural populations in their native environment.
11) Lingering Garden, China
An excellent example of a classic Chinese garden, the Lingering ("Thick") garden dates back to the 16th century. Today he is listed World Heritage UNESCO and has been open to the public since the 1930s.
12) Garden on Mainau Island, Germany
Mainau Island, located on Lake Constance, which lies between Germany, Austria and Switzerland, sheltered one of the most beautiful parks Europe. Thanks to the wonderful park, the island received the name "island of flowers", as it is practically all year round It blooms with a wide variety of flowers.
Grand Duke Frederick I of Baden founded a park on the island in the 19th century. Today, about 500 species of deciduous and coniferous trees grow here, many of which are exotic and rare. Also in the garden you can find about 200 varieties of rhododendrons and azaleas.
The Italian rose garden features 500 varieties of roses, while the Mediterranean terraces contain exotic flowers including palm trees, agaves, cacti and bougainvillea. There are about 30 thousand rose bushes and about 250 varieties of dahlias in the garden.
