Your favorite gardens...
Feb 9th, 2006, 05:23 PM
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Your favorite gardens...
I love gardens! While I haven't traveled as extensively as some of you, I have visited some gardens that I remember fondly...
The Bagatelle Rose Garden in Paris (In full bloom, it will take your breath away.)
The Garden of the Fort St. Andre in Villeneuve Avignon
The Cloister Garden at the monastery of St. Paul outside St. Remy
The Garden of the Villa Cimbrone in Ravello
What gardens have you been to that a fellow garden-lover should see before he expires? (By the way, I'll be in Yorkshire visiting some gardens this summer!)
The Bagatelle Rose Garden in Paris (In full bloom, it will take your breath away.)
The Garden of the Fort St. Andre in Villeneuve Avignon
The Cloister Garden at the monastery of St. Paul outside St. Remy
The Garden of the Villa Cimbrone in Ravello
What gardens have you been to that a fellow garden-lover should see before he expires? (By the way, I'll be in Yorkshire visiting some gardens this summer!)
Feb 9th, 2006, 05:38 PM
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Birr Castle gardens in Ireland.
The incredible display at Chalet La Floria, a mountain restaurant perched above Chamonix (actually above Les Praz, if you want to go there). I saw my first hummingbord hawk-moth there.
The incredible display at Chalet La Floria, a mountain restaurant perched above Chamonix (actually above Les Praz, if you want to go there). I saw my first hummingbord hawk-moth there.
Feb 11th, 2006, 05:53 AM
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Now just if you happen to be in the neighborhood, there's a tiny little garden in Yvoire, France (on Lac Leman), which is called something like the garden of the five senses. There's a garden room devoted to each with plants chosen to appeal particularly to that sense. I enjoyed it so much, I missed the last boat back to Swiss Leman. Oops. J.
Feb 11th, 2006, 06:34 AM
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Guy - Some of my favourites are:
Leonardslee gardens (Sussex)
Stourhead (Wiltshire)
Exbury gardens (Hampshire)
http://www.leonardsleegardens.com/
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main...-stourhead.htm
http://www.exbury.co.uk/exbury/index.htm
Steve
Leonardslee gardens (Sussex)
Stourhead (Wiltshire)
Exbury gardens (Hampshire)
http://www.leonardsleegardens.com/
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main...-stourhead.htm
http://www.exbury.co.uk/exbury/index.htm
Steve
Feb 24th, 2006, 03:35 PM
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Every garden lover must see the Keukenhof tulip garden in Holland before they die. It's only open from mid March to mid May but there isn't anything like it in the world.
Also the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh.
Also the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh.
