Garden1-Chicago

This botanical garden is a 385-acre living museum on nine islands in the cook county forest preserves. It displays a wide variety of exhibitions in the form of fine photography and artwork with horticulture displays. The garden includes 27 garden and four natural habitats

The Aquatic Garden, Bonsai Collection, The Bulb Garden, The Grunsfeld Children’s Growing Garden, The Circle Garden, Crescent Garden and many more. Entry to the garden is always free; you will have to pay for the parking only. The garden is open on every day of the year on different timings.

Garden2-Kylemore

From sweet peas to rhododendrons, no plant grows in the Victorian walled garden at Kylemore unless it would have been available to Victorian gardeners. Even the pots and garden fixtures are original, making you feel like you’ve stepped back in time. In contrast to the six acres of immaculate flowerbeds and vegetable plots, the surroundings are untamed.

Hike around the 1,000-acre estate to see why its original owners, Mitchell and Margaret Henry, loved Connemara. They had the castle and garden built here on drained marshland in 1867, with 21 heated glasshouses, including a banana house and a vinery.

Kylemore fell into disrepair after a change of ownership, but was resurrected by a group of Benedictine nuns fleeing war-torn Ypres in WWI. While the abbey itself was preserved in the following decades, the garden wasn’t restored to its Victorian glory until 2000, when the original pathways were unveiled.

Garden3-Mainau

Mainau is an island in Lake Constance (on the Southern shore of the Überlinger See near the city of Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany). It is maintained as a garden island and a model of excellent environmental practices. Administratively, the island has been a part of Konstanz since December 1, 1971, when the municipality of Litzelstetten, of which Mainau was part, was incorporated into Konstanz. Mainau is still part of Litzelstetten, now one of 15 wards (administrative subdivisions) of Konstanz.

The island belongs to the Lennart Bernadotte-Stiftung (eng. The Lennart Bernadotte Foundation), an entity created by Prince Lennart Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg, originally a Prince of Sweden and Duke of Småland. It is one of the main tourist attractions of Lake Constance. Beside flowers there is a park landscape with views on the lake. There is a greenhouse as well with tropical climate and thousands of butterflies.

Garden4-Maine

One of the best botanical gardens you can ever visit in the world is in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, known as the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. It is one of Maine’s top attractions as it is the perfect place for people of all ages to come and explore meaningful connections to plants and nature at their own pace.

The idea for this garden began in 1991 where a small group of MidCoast residents dreamed of building a world-class public garden on vast acres of land that would one day be both an economic engine and cultural anchor for the region. After 16 years of planning, the gardens opened to the public in the summer of 2007.

What makes this garden so special is that it is the largest garden in New England. It spans a whopping 295 acres wide, 17 of which are gardens that feature native plants and species from the state of Maine along with other plants that are suitable for northern coastal conditions

garden5-Montreal

The Jardin botanique de Montréal was founded in 1931 and remains a popular oasis in the heart of the city. It includes a Chinese Garden with a collection of bonsai and penjing, a Japanese Garden which is populated with Japanese plants and a First Nations Garden, populated solely with Canadian plants.

The park is also famous for its quirky art installations. 2018 sees a pathway lined with animal shelters, all of them built to human scale. Visitors are encouraged to step inside and experience the the kind of accommodation favoured by Quebecs mammals, birds and insects

Garden6-München

The Botanical Garden München-Nymphenburg, covering an area of 21.2 hectares (52.4 acres), is home to approximately 19,600 species and subspecies. The Botanical Garden is used for scientific research, which include plants at the Alpine Garden on the Schachen (1,860 m).

The Garden is also a place for the training or further education of gardeners. Last but not least it provides a refuge for birds and insects. Whether you are interested in botany or just visiting to relax in tranquil and beautiful surroundings – we hope that your visit will be enjoyable.

Garden7-NewZeeland

Hamilton’s award-winning gardens were born of humble beginnings, yet today they’re one of the best places to visit in New Zealand! The site, situated to the south of the central city, next to a bending arm of the Waikato River was once used as a rifle range and a rubbish dump before development on the gardens begun in 1980. Since then it has blossomed, and development hasn’t stalled.

There are now five collections of gardens, each housing several themed gardens within them. The paradise collection is my preferred area, and I’m not alone in loving this internationally acclaimed garden! This collection houses gardens from around the world – including an Indian Char Bagh Garden, and Italian Renaissance Garden (my favourite – it feels like you’ve been transported across the globe), a Japanese Garden of Contemplation, and an English Flower Garden among others

Garden8-Singapore

This 160-year old tropical garden is located at the Singapore Orchard Road shopping district. It’s surely one of the best botanical gardens in the world that spans over an area of 82-hectares with a linear distance of 2.5 km (1.6 mi). It’s open every day in the year between 5 am to 12 midnight, which makes it the only botanic garden to have this entry time.

Moreover, it has more than 1200 Orchid species, a park for children, an evolution garden, a ginger garden, a rainforest, and much more. The entry fee is free for every age group except for the entry into National Orchid Garden within the central area.

Garden9-Thailand

et on 500-acres of rolling hills and valleys behind Pattaya, the Nongnooch botanical garden is the brainchild of a Mrs Nongnooch, who was inspired by the beauty of world renowned gardens to turn her fruit orchard into a tropical garden of ornamental flowers and plants. Opened to the public in 1980, it quickly became one of the region’s most popular attractions.

The gardens are a beguiling mix of Thai architecture and European-style gardens. There is a French garden and a European garden as well as more tropical treats like a flower valley, orchid garden and ant hill. A Dinosaur Valley, featuring life size replicas of oviraptors, styracosaurus and cyrolophosaurus, is a recent addition to the park’s attractions

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The Eden Project opened in 2001 in a former quarry and consists of several gardens: some outdoor and others arranged inside giant biomes (bio domes) with microclimates. Whether you’re walking on a tropical ‘cloud bridge’, spying a giant bee sculpture or passing a rubber-tapping exhibit, there’s an understandably strong conservation message amid the Instagram-worthy views.

Though Eden is child-friendly, you can appreciate it as an adult, from tasting rum-infused baobab smoothies to discovering the plants extracts used in painkillers. The achingly cool health food in the cafes is also tempting.

The newest attraction is the Western Australia Garden, which is perfect for anyone who can’t afford a round-the-world airfare just yet. Australia has famously strict biosecurity laws to guard its ecosystem (in May this year, its customs officers destroyed irreplaceable plant specimens on loan from a Parisian museum). This garden perhaps explains why Australia is so precious about its plants, such as the symbolic kangaroo paw

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