Best famous gardens to visit

Jan 18, 2020, 10:26 AM | Updated: 10:27 am

Colorful spring flowers in a park. Location is Keukenhof Gardens, near Lisse, Netherlands

Producer, Dave & Dujanovic

Don’t forget to add these to your bucket list! This list of famous gardens is extremely entrancing and a major must see in your lifetime. We are taking you around the globe to some of our top picks of KSL Greenhouse’s favorite famous gardens.

Keukenhof Gardens – Lisse

Largest bulb garden in the world
80 acres of gardens
Since 1949 (63 years)
100 different varieties
7 million bulbs planted by hand
It takes 2 months to plant
Open for 2 months
900,000 visitors each year

Longwood Botanical Gardens – Pennsylvania

Began as Pierce’s Park (1800’s)
15 acre arboretum
Pierre S. duPont (1906)
1,077 acres
4.5 acres of greenhouse
1 million visitors per year

Japanese Gardens – Portland, Oregon

Built in 1967
5 ½ acres
5 garden styles
Strolling Pond garden
Tea garden
Natural garden
Flat garden
Sand and Stone

“I believe this garden to be the most authentic Japanese garden, including those in Japan.“

Nobuo Matsunaga, Ambassador from Japan to the United States (1998)

Kew Gardens – London, England

Royal Botanical Gardens
2 million visitors a year
Built in 1759
300 acres
Plethora of different attractions
Children’s Garden
Courses offered

Bellingrath Gardens – Theodore, AL

Built in 1932
65-acre botanical garden
400 varieties of camellias
large plantation garden
exquisite hibiscus collection

Whether they are close to home or across the country, these gardens will entrance you from the moment you arrive. We know we are daydreaming of these beautiful botanical landscapes, which garden is at the top of your list to see?

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