Most beautiful gardens in the world
Lost Gardens of Heligan
Is there something better than seeing beautiful gardens when you are travelling?
There are a lot of different lists on the most beautiful gardens of the world. Indeed, there are a lot of them if we think about the beautiful nature in Canada and USA, where you can find wonderful national parks, but also, if we think about the amazing gardens in Tokyo or the beautiful botanic gardens in London we can see there are a lot of them, equally beautiful and different.
In the website: Planet Green, I have found 5 of the World’s most amazing gardens. They have made the list and placed in the first place the Musée du quai Branly Vertical Garden in Paris. It is not a garden like it is commonly understood, it is even better. It is an environmentally friendly, natural and refreshing way of covering the facade of a building. Designed by botanist and landscape designer Patrick Blanc and comprising 15,000 plants, this garden celebrates biodiversity. There is even a drip irrigator system at the top of the wall watering the plants.
Then in the second place we have the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, UK. Voted as “The Nation’s Favourite Garden.” by BBC Gardeners’ World viewers. The most famous image in this garden is the woman figure covered by moss. It belongs to the Tremayne family of Cornwall and belonged to the same family for more than 400 years. The garden has different moods and styles, including Italian gardens or subtropical tree ferns.
In the third place, there is the Nong Nooch Botanical Garden in Thailand followed by the Arctic-alpune Botanic Garden in Tromsø, Norway, the world’s northernmost botanic garden.
Worth of a visit is the Rikugien Garden in Tokyo, in the fifth place. Rikugien means “six poems garden” in Japanese. It is both breathtaking and wonderful and can serve as a way of inspiration to our own gardens. A must see place for lovers of beautiful garden.
Not in the list, but worth to mention is the garden Bagh-e Fin in Iran, the oldest of Iran, completed by 1590 and probably will become UNESCO World Heritage place. It features the typical “chahar bagh” design of crossed water rills, and the water is provided by a spring and a qanat. Considered the epitome of the Persian garden, the good thing is also that it is still in a great condition, attracting tourists all the time.
