Some gardens are worth seeing at least once in a lifetime: Keukenhof's millions of tulips, the Moorish courtyards of the Alhambra, Singapore's futuristic Supertrees. Here are the most famous and unusual gardens in the world, from Europe to Asia and America, and when best to visit. And at the end, gardens and parks in Ukraine that rival any abroad.
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One of the world's best-known spring gardens has been open to visitors since 1950. About 7 million tulip, daffodil and hyacinth bulbs are planted every year, and the garden is open for only about eight weeks, from mid-March to mid-May. More about tulip varieties in "Tulips: varieties and colour meanings".
The park opened in 2012. Its symbol is the Supertrees: vertical gardens 25–50 metres tall, covered in thousands of plants and lit up in the evenings. The Flower Dome, recognised by Guinness World Records as the largest glass greenhouse, holds plants from around the world, while the Cloud Forest has an artificial mountain with a waterfall.
The summer residence of the rulers of Granada beside the Alhambra palace was created in the 13th–14th centuries. Narrow water channels, fountains, roses and cypresses are the essence of a Moorish garden. Together with the Alhambra, the Generalife is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Dubai Miracle Garden opened in 2013 in the middle of the desert. According to the organisers, more than 150 million flowers grow here, formed into arches, houses and giant figures — one of them, a replica of an Airbus A380, made it into Guinness World Records. The garden opens in the cooler season, roughly November to May.
Industrialist Pierre S. du Pont bought land in Pennsylvania in 1906 to save old trees from felling and turned it into one of America's greatest gardens, with vast conservatories, an Italian water garden and musical fountains.
Ideas for your own garden are in "Garden decor ideas".
In April: the garden is open from about mid-March to mid-May, and tulips peak in mid-spring.
In Gardens by the Bay in Singapore.
Sofiyivka in Uman, founded in 1796.
Author: Maria Svitlovir
Graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Institute of Biology and Medicine (2001). BSc in Biology, MSc in Horticulture. Writes about plants, works at a garden centre selecting and repotting plants, and contributes to plant reference guides.
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