Gardens; garden art and design; famous gardens around the world; landscape architecture and design; English, French, Italian gardens… a list of websites
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Advice on gardening, horticulture
Gardening Advice.org. Gardening tips and advice.
Discover organic gardening, indoor and vegetable gardening, along with reviews of gardening supplies.
Garden Forever
Articles and tips for gardening, a comprehensive resource.
Alnwick Garden Project, a modern garden by the Duchess of Northumberland.
American gardens
Gardens in the U.S.A., the landscape garden guide. Garden Visit.com
The American Public Gardens Association
Over the last six decades, the APGA has emerged as the premiere association for public gardens in North America.
Articles
Garden Forever
Articles and tips for gardening, a comprehensive resource.
Artists of Garden Art
A juried art exhibition being developed by artists to communicate with one another and allow themselves to exhibit and share their work with the worldwide community on the internet.
Australian gardens
Australian Garden History Society
Our Australian Gardens, a directory of Australian gardens.
Australian gardens visitor’s guide.
The Melbourne International Garden and Flower Show
The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show is Australia’s biggest flower and garden show.
Better Homes and Gardens Australia magazine.
Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Austrian gardens
Imperial Austrian palaces and gardens.
Schoenbrunn Palace gardens, Vienna
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Backyard Gardener
A one stop informational site to help people understand their gardening needs. Backyard Gardener provides gardening plans and plant lists to enhance your gardening knowledge.
Bamboo. International Network for Bamboo and Rattan
Baroque gardens.
Information, with links to High Baroque garden websites. Gardenvisit.com
Belgian gardens
Gardens in Belgium, a guide from Garden Visit.
Better Homes and Gardens
An online magazine.
Botanical gardens, tropical gardens
Arctic-Alpine Botanical Garden, Norway
Australian National Botanic Gardens
Barcelona Botanical Gardens/Jardí Botànic de Barcelona
Bogor Botanic Gardens, Indonesia
Glossary of botanical terms, from Garden Life Pro.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is one of the world’s leading botanic gardens.
The United States Botanic Garden
Brantwood, the garden estate of John Ruskin.
Brooklyn Botanical Gardens (US).
Smithsonian Education page on botany and art.
British gardens
See English and British Gardens
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Castle Howard, Yorkshire, England
Chinese gardens
Chinese Gardens. Traditional Chinese gardens.
Photos of Chinese gardens of Yangzhou and Suzhou.
The Classical Chinese Garden Society Homepage
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Directories, garden guides
Garden Visit and Travel Guide
An international garden directory. British gardens, American gardens, European gardens, garden style diagrams, garden designers index.
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English/British gardens
See English Gardens and also: Garden history
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Forums
Gardening forums, from Garden Web.
French gardens
French Gardens and gardening
A garden guide with descriptions of the many gardens open to the public in France.
Comité des Parcs et Jardins de France
Le site du Comité des Parcs et Jardins de France qui a pour vocation de présenter tous les Parcs et Jardins de France.
L’Atelier Vert. Everything French Gardening
French garden supplies and accoutrements, including books. Articles on plants, techniques, and French gardens.
French gardens open to the public.
The French formal garden, Wikipedia entry.
Monet’s Garden at Giverny, France
Remarkable gardens of France, Wikipedia entries.
Versailles
Gardens and Park of The Palace of Versailles
Gardens of Versailles, Wikipedia entry.
André Le Nôtre, website of the Ministry of Culture and of Communication
André Le Nôtre, Wikipedia entry.
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Garden Visit and Travel Guide
An international garden directory. British gardens, American gardens, European gardens, garden style diagrams, garden designers index.
Gardening
GardenWeb
An internet directory and garden community.
German gardens
Gardens to visit in Germany.
Garden Visit.com
Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm, also known as the English Grounds of Wörlitz,
is one of the first and largest English parks in Germany and Europe. Wikipedia
Official site of the Dessau-Woerlitz Garden Realm
Official site of the Wörlitz Park
Parks and gardens of Germany. German tourism website.
Schloss Sanssouci/Sanssouci Palace
Glossary of botanical terms
Glossary of botanical terms, from Garden Life Pro
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Hampton Court, Herefordshire, UK.
Heligan Gardens
Restoration of the lost gardens of Heligan, Cornwall, England.
History of Gardens
The Biodiversity Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of 12 natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.
Dutch Baroque Gardens
The British Library. These views of Dutch country houses and gardens form three volumes of an atlas devoted to the Netherlands. It was put together between 1718 and 1748 from the best available maps, views, portraits and plans by a wealthy Amsterdam businessman and landowner, Christoffel Beudeker (1675-1756).
Romantic Gardens: Nature, Art, and Landscape Design
The Morgan Library and Museum. Scenic vistas, winding paths, bucolic meadows, and rustic retreats suitable for solitary contemplation are just a few of the alluring naturalistic features of gardens created in the Romantic spirit.
History of Gardens. The Garden History Society, UK.
History of Gardening, Wikipedia entries.
Historic Gardens Foundation, UK.
Humphrey Repton’s Red Books. The Morgan Library & Museum Online Exhibitions
The Museum of Garden History, London.
Garden History Style Guide (gardenvisit.com)
The Enchanted Gardens of the Renaissance
Sayes Court
Plan of Sayes Court House and Garden, by John Evelyn. The British Library
Stowe Landscape Gardens
A website with a virtual tour of the garden that allows you to move around on a map in one frame while seeing photographs of your virtual location in another.
Gardens for Small Country Houses, by Gertrude Jekyll & Lawrence Weaver.
Some English Gardens; after drawings by George S. Elgood; with notes by Gertrude Jekyll.
Holland, The Netherlands
Public gardens in Holland, a directory from Garden Visit.
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Indian gardens
Indian Gardens
(with selected garden history key dates and links to information for visitors).
International garden website links (Gardenweb).
Italian gardens
Boboli Gardens
Wikipedia entry.
360 degree virtual tour of The Boboli Gardens
Boboli gardens, an image gallery from Wikimedia Commons.
Veeneto gardens and villas. Wikipedia entries.
Villa Marlia, Lucca. Wikipedia entry.
Gardens in italy
A garden landscape visitor’s guide.
Italian Renaissance gardens.
Wikipedia
List of gardens in Italy
Wikipedia
Classical Italian Gardens. Photographs from Pinterest
Islamic gardens
The Symbolism of the Islamic Garden. Islamic Arts and Architecture
Gardens of Islam. Muslim Heritage
Islamic garden Wikipedia entry.
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Japanese gardens
Japanese Garden Database (Jgarden)
References, resources, forums, web links, plants, materials, etc.
Japanese Gardens, a web guide. Famous Japanese gardens.
Garden Guide
JGarden
Forum, news, suppliers, articles.
The Japanese Gardening Society
International Association of Japanese Gardens
Japanese Gardening.org.
Japanese Gardening information.
The Japanese Gardening Society, UK.
Paradise: The Gardens of Tokyo: a portfolio of photographs by Tim Porter.
The Journal of Japanese Gardening
Wikipedia entry on the Japanese garden.
Jencks, Charles
Jencks, Charles. Charles Jencks
Charles Jencks
Charles Jencks (born 1939) is an American architectural theorist, landscape architect and designer. Wikipedia.
Charles Jencks, ABC interview.
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Kew Gardens (Royal Botanical gardens, Kew, London
Searchable database of horticulture and garden design.
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Mazes
Mazes open to the public.
Garden mazes, a list from Wikipedia.
14 Of The Most Epic, Confusing, And Beautiful Mazes On Earth. Huffington Post
Longleat Maze
Morocco
Jardin Majorelle
The Majorelle Garden is a twelve-acre botanical and artist’s landscape garden in Marrakech. It was designed by the expatriate French artist Jacques Majorelle.
Marrakech gardens in pictures. The Guardian
Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens
Monet’s Garden at Giverny, France.
Mughal Empire. Gardens of the Mughal Empire, Indian subcontinent.
Museums of gardening
The Museum of Garden History, London
The Garden Museum, U.K.
The Garden Museum explores and celebrates British gardens and gardening through its collection, temporary exhibitions, events and garden.
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National Trust, UK. Historic gardens and country houses.
Nederlands, Floriade. A garden for the future.
New Zealand gardens
A directory of New Zealand gardens to visit.
Ayrlies garden, Whitford, Auckland
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Paris gardens
The Top 10 Paris Gardens. TripAdvisor
Tuileries Gardens
Wikipedia
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The Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney
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Sacred gardens
Sacred gardens.The Sacred Landscape
Illustrated essays on sacred geometry; temple and shrine architecture; sacred site tourism.
Sacred Gardens, Sacred Space: Religion and Garden Design History
Sculpture parks, sculpture gardens
Sculpture parks and gardens international directory.
Grounds for Sculpture, New Jersey
Henry Moore sculpture park at Perry Green.
National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, US.
Herbert Gerisch Stiftung
The Herbert Gerisch Foundation in Neumünster, Germany.
Kröller-Müller Museum
The sculpture garden of Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo, Netherlands). Works by Rodin, Moore, Hepworth, Dubuffet and Oldenburg
Louisiana
Sculpture garden and museum in Denmark.
Novy Les. Baroque sculpture garden in Kuks, Czech Republic.
Parks and gardens international directory. Sculpture.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, U.K.
South African gardens
Gardens in South Africa, a directory from GardenVisit.
Spanish gardens
Spanish gardens, a guide
(with selected garden history key dates and links to information for visitors).
Spanish garden Wikipedia entry.
Gardens in Spain. Gardenvisit.com
Sydney, Australia
The Royal Botanical Gardens. Sydney
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Tropical gardens, Wikipedia entry.
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Villa Borghese gardens, Wikipedia entry.
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Water gardens
Wikipedia entry on the water garden.
North American Water Garden Society
Web Garden Guide.com. Your garden adviser.
Information on gardening, growing plants, herbs, flowers and vegetables.
Wurzburg Rococo Gardens, Germany.
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Zen gardens
Buddhist gardens and sacred space.
Kyoto Gardens, a virtual stroll through Zen landscapes.
Japanese rock gardens, an image gallery from Wikimedia Commons.
Zen rock gardens, photographs.
Shunmyo Masuno
Shunmyo Masuno, celebrated designer of Zen gardens.