Top Ten Most Beautiful Gardens in the world

The following are the most Beautiful Gardens in the world.

Dubai Miracle Garden,Versailles, France,Mirabell Garden, Salzburg, Austria,Singapore Botanic Garden,Butchart Gardens, British Columbia,villa d este italy.Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C,Sanssouci Park, Potsdam, Germany,The Master of Nets Garden, China,Ayrlies Garden near whitford north island of new zealand

1. Dubai Miracle Garden

The Most Beautiful and Largest Flower Garden in the World is Dubai Miracle Garden.The Miracle Garden contains special vertical and horizontal landscaping designs, each area has special design.

The Miracle Garden contains different types of flowers, some flowers are planted first time in the Gulf Region, the garden contains more than 45 million flowers.The total area of the park, called Dubai Miracle Garden, is about 70,000 square meters.

There are plans for retail outlets, restaurants and shops by the site – the Dubai Miracle Garden is now open to the public from 10am to 10pm on weekdays and 10am to midnight on weekends and on public holidays. It will close in late-May, reopening in October; the entry fee is 20Dhs for adults and children aged three and above.

2.Versailles, France

The Gardens of Versailles, created by André Le Nôtre between 1662 and 1700, were the greatest achievement of the Garden à la francaise. They were the largest gardens in Europe – with an area of 15000 hectares, and were laid out on an east-west axis followed the course of the sun.

The sun rose over the Court of Honor, lit the Marble Court, crossed the Chateau and lit the bedroom of the King, and set at the end of the Grand Canal, reflected in the mirrors of the Hall of Mirrors. In contrast with the grand perspectives, reaching to the horizon, the garden was full of surprises – fountains, small gardens fill with statuary, which provided a more human scale and intimate spaces.

The central symbol of the Garden was the sun; the emblem of Louis XIV, illustrated by the statue of Apollo in the central fountain of the garden. “The views and perspectives, to and from the palace, continued to inifinity. The king ruled over nature, recreating in the garden not only his domination of his territories, but over the court and his subjects.

3.Mirabell Garden, Salzburg, Austria

Mirabell Palace (German: Schloss Mirabell) is a historical building in the city of Salzburg, Austria. The palace with its gardens is a listed cultural heritage monument and part of the Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg UNESCO World Heritage Site.

It was built about 1606 outside the medieval walls of Salzburg according to Italian and French models, at the behest of Prince-Archbishop Wolf Dietrich Raitenau as a residence for his mistress Salome Alt. When Raitenau was deposed and arrested in 1612, Alt and her family were expelled and the palace received its current name from Italian: mirabile, bella: “amazing”, “wonderful”. It was rebuilt in a lavish Baroque style from 1710, according to plans designed by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt. On 1 June 1815 the later King Otto of Greece was born here, while his father, the Wittelsbach crown prince Ludwig I of Bavaria served as stadtholder in the former Electorate of Salzburg. The current Neoclasical appearance dates from about 1818, when the place was restored after a blaze.

In its geometrically-arranged gardens are mythology-themed statues dating from 1730 and four groups of sculpture (Eneas, Hercules, Paris and Pluton) by the Italian sculptor Ottavio Mosto, from 1690. It is noted for its boxwood layouts.

Famous Mirabell Gardens were redesigned around 1690 under Prince-Archbishop Johann Ernst Graf von Thun to plans by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and completely remodeled around 1730 by Franz Anton Danreiter. The Pegasus Fountain, a work by Kaspar Gras from Innsbruck, was installed in 1913. The four groups of statues around the fountain were sculpted by Ottavio Mosto (1690) and symbolize the 4 elements: fire, air, earth and water. The Mirabell Gardens were opened to the public by Emperor Franz Joseph in 1854. Today they are a horticultural masterpiece and popular backdrop for photographers.

 

The Hedge Theater – created between 1704 and 1718 – is located in the main part of the Mirabell Gardens and is one of the oldest hedge theaters north of the Alps.

The Dwarf Garden features a number of misshapen creatures made of white Untersberg marble and dates back to the time of Archbishop Franz Anton Harrach.

Mirabell Palace Today
Today Mirabell Palace houses the offices of Salzburg’s mayor and the municipal council. The Marble Hall, formerly the prince-archbishops’ ballroom and concert venue for Leopold Mozart and his children Wolfgang and Nannerl, is considered to be one of the “most beautiful wedding halls in the world.” Meetings, awards ceremonies and romantic concerts (Salzburg Palace Concerts) are held here regularly.

4.Singapore Botanic Garden

The Singapore Botanic Gardens (Chinese: 新加坡植物园; Malay: Taman Botanik Singapura or Kebun Botani Singapura) is a 74-hectare[1] (183-acre) botanical garden in Singapore. It is the only botanic garden in the world that opens from 5 a.m. to 12 midnight every single day of the year, and does not charge an admission fee, except for the National Orchid Garden.

The garden is bordered by Holland Road and Napier Road to the south, Cluny Roadto the east, Tyersall Avenue and Cluny Park Road to the west and Bukit Timah Road to the North. The linear distance between the northern and southern ends is around 2.5 km (1.6 mi). In December 2012, an application for it to be listed as aUNESCO World Heritage Site was made.

 

A contemporary botanic garden is a strictly protected natural urban green area, where a managing organization creates landscaped gardens and holds documented collections of living plants and/or preserved plant accessions containing functional units of heredity of actual or potential value for purposes such as scientific research, education, public display, conservation, sustainable use, tourism and recreational activities, production of marketable plant-based products and services for improvement of human well-being.

5.Butchart Gardens, British Columbia

The Butchart Gardens is a group of floral display gardens in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada, located near Victoria on Vancouver Island. The gardens receive more than a million visitors each year. The gardens have been designated a National Historic Site of Canada due to their international renown.

Butchart Gardens is a privately owned and maintained botanical garden located at Tod Inlet, twelve miles north of Victoria on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. It was created on property used by Robert Pim Butchart, of Ontario, Canada, as a limestone quarry for his manufacture of Portland cement. Butchart Gardens has established an international reputation for its year round display of flowering plants. Plantings beds and groups of trees are carefully divided with ponds, cascading waterfalls, and meandering paths. Now internationally known, the Gardens are visited by well over a million people each year.

 

Despite further additions, the layout of the garden is very much as Jennie Butchart and her designers envisioned. By 2004, a series of replantings were being done throughout the Gardens by a full-time staff of fifty gardeners. Each year over one million bedding plants, in some 700 varieties, are placed to ensure uninterrupted bloom from March through October.

In summer, thousands of colored lights dramatically light the Gardens and fireworks may be offered on Saturday evenings. At Christmas, carollers and festive entertainment complement a lavish display of lights. The former family residence today contains the Dining Room Restaurant, offices, and rooms used for entertaining. Additional dining is available at the Blue Poppy restaurant and The Coffee Shop.

6.villa d este italy

The Villa d’Este, originally Villa del Garovo, is a Renaissance patrician residence in the Italian town of Cernobbio on the shores of Lake Como. Both the villa and the 25-acre (100,000 m2) park which surrounds it have undergone significant changes since their sixteenth-century origins as a summer residence for the Cardinal of Como.

Nevertheless, visiting the garden in 1903 for Century Magazine, Edith Wharton found this to be the ‘the only old garden on Como which keeps more than a fragment of its original architecture’, and noted that ‘though Queen Caroline anglicised part of the grounds, the main lines of the Renaissance garden still exist’.

Since 1873 the complex has been a luxury hotel.

Today, with room rates averaging €1000 ($1400) a night and top suites averaging €3500 ($5000) per night, the villa is a luxury hotel for wealthy people and a high level congress center.

In June 2009, Forbes reckoned it the best hotel in the world while in 2008 it was listed as the 15th best hotel in Europe and 69th best hotel in the world by Travel + Leisure magazine.

Every April the hotel holds a Concours d’Elegance for vintage and concept cars, the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este which was first presented in 1928; in September it hosts the annual Ambrosetti Forum, an international workshop attended by prominent figures from the fields of politics, finance and business which has taken place here since 1975.

7.Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C

The Dumbarton Oaks Park is a public park, located in the 3100 block of R Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Georgetown neighborhood. Access is via Lovers’ Lane from R Street, east of 32nd Street. It is located near Dumbarton Oaks, Montrose Park, and Oak Hill Cemetery. It is part of the Georgetown Historic District.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss purchased Dumbarton Oaks House in 1920, and established the garden. The park is a naturalistic streamside garden area of 27 acres, beyond the 10 acre formal garden, designed by Beatrix Farrand. In 1998 and 1999, Student Conservation Association groups restored the south stream path. Dumbarton Oaks Park Con­servancy has been formed to provide restoration.

8.Sanssouci Park, Potsdam, Germany

Sanssouci Park is a large park surrounding Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam, Germany. Following the terracing of the vineyard and the completion of the palace, the surroundings were included in the structure. A baroque flower garden with lawns, flower beds, hedges and trees was created. In the hedge quarter 3,000 fruit trees were planted.

The greenhouses of the numerous nurseries contained oranges, melons, peaches and bananas. The goddesses Flora and Pomona, who decorate the entrance obelisk at the eastern park exit, were placed there to highlight the connection of a flower, fruit and vegetable garden.

With the baroque flower and fruit and vegetable gardens from the Frederician era in mind, the garden architect converted the flat and partly swampy grounds into an open landscape park. Broad meadows created visual avenues between Charlottenhof, the Roman Baths and the New Palace with the Temple of Friendship developed from the time of Frederick the Great. Casually placed groups of bushes and trees and a moat that was broadened into a pond at its southeastern end beautify the large park. Lenné used the materials excavated to create the pond to construct a gentle hilly area landscape where the paths meet in the shape of stars at the high points.

9.The Master of Nets Garden, China

The Master of the Nets Garden (simplified Chinese; traditional Chinese; pinyin:Wǎngshī Yuán) in Suzhou is among the finest gardens in China. It is located at Gusu District (formerly Canglang District), Dai Cheng Qiao Road, No. 11 Kuo Jia Tou Xiang . It is recognized with other classical Suzhou gardens as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The garden demonstrates Chinese garden designers’ adept skills for synthesizing art, nature, and architecture to create unique metaphysical masterpieces. The Master of the Nets is particularly regarded among garden connoisseurs for its mastering the techniques of relative dimension, contrast, foil, sequence and depth, and borrowed scenery.

 

The 5,400 m² garden is divided into east and west sections. The eastern part consists of residential quarters, while the gardens are located in the western part. Eastern section is the residential area it is a linear sequence of four halls one tower and three courtyards. The western garden is an ensemble of buildings around the 334 m² Rosy Cloud Pool. Plants and rocks are used to create views which represent several seasons.

It also includes three side courts to the east and south. The two dominant elements of the composition are the Barrier of Cloud grotto, a cypress tree dating from the Ming Dynasty, and pine several centuries old. The areas to the south of the Rosy Cloud Pool were used for social activities and the areas to the north were used for intellectual activities.

The buildings are laid out in a style called close to the water which is used to give the Rosy Clouds Pool the illusion of great size. Small buildings are set on rocks or piers directly over the water surface while large buildings are separated from the pool by yards planted with trees to obscure their size.

10.Ayrlies Garden near whitford north island of new zealand

Ayrlies Garden is a country garden near Whitford, southeast of Auckland on the North Island of New Zealand. It is one of New Zealand’s best-known gardens,and has been described as the “quintessential New Zealand garden”.

The garden now covers some 12 acres (49,000 m2) of rolling terrain, with large lawns, ponds and waterways, and heavily planted informal borders which make strong use of colour, including a “lurid border” of ‘hot’ colours. Some areas feature roses, clematis and perennials; others contain lush, sub-tropical plants, such as Petrea, Alocasia, bromeliads, vireya rhododendrons and Ficus dammaropsis.

It also includes many large trees – mostly liquid amber, swamp cypress and pin oak – which have grown rapidly in the warm and wet climate, with rare frosts and over 50 inches (1.3 m) of rain a year. It contains several structures around the main house, including a small ‘sitooterie’ – a low gazebo, to sit out in and admire the view. The large site is unified by a consistent planting and use of materials.

The garden was created by Beverly McConnell and her late husband Malcolm, co-founder of New Zealand engineering and construction company McConnell Dowell. It is named after Malcolm McConnell’s grandfather’s farm in Scotland.

The garden began in 1964, when the McConnells moved to the site with their young family, starting with a 3-acre (12,000 m2) coastal site which was previously bare paddock with a heavy clay soil, and expanding to 12 acres (49,000 m2) in 1978, including the addition of three large ponds. From 2000, 35 acres (140,000 m2) of swamp flats below the homestead were transformed into a wetland area with an 8-acre (32,000 m2) lake, linking the garden to the Hauraki Gulf nearby.