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Visit These Gardens if You Want To Experience Heaven Brought Down on Earth

Avantika says...

July 30, 2016 at 7:00 PM

Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew - You can’t just afford to miss this beautiful garden put together by Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. This non-departmental public body holds importance in areas of education and botanical research. Governed by a board of 12 trustees, Kew employs 250 scientists and is home to over 1,040,400 species of plants from all around the globe.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, Australia - Located at the south bank of Yarra River is the internationally distinguished Royal Botanic Gardens that are spread across more than a 100 acres of land. The territory encompasses aboriginal heritage walk, a children’s garden, an observatory, and a herbarium discovery walk.

Ji Chang Yuan, Jiangsu, China - Garden of Ecstasy, as it is also knows as, the breathtaking view of Ji Chang Yuan China has much to promise. It is puzzling how it includes artificial hills, and replicates the height and depth of an extensive landscape, just within the confines of 1 acre of land. Its man-made mountain of yellow rock is its prime attraction, and the musical stream that meets a long pool adds to the mystic.

Kenroku-en Garden, Ishikawa, Japan - The country is as it is famous for its alluring gardens, and one of its three most notable gardens is Kenroku-en, that with its serenity and empyreal sights spread across an area of 11 acres, take you to a different heaven. This garden was maintained by generations of feudal lords from the Maeda Family. If you would like to visit it sometime, better go during the season of Cherry Blossom to find it bloom into its full beauty.

Kirstenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa - Set against the picturesque backdrop of Devil’s Peak and Table Mountain, this South African garden provides shelter to over 22 000 unique species of fauna. Its magical environment would effortlessly captivate the heart thirty from wanderlust. Kirstenbosch was found in 1913 to salvage the indigenous plants of the continent. This garden appeals to the foreign visitors who find the reproduction of the Restio grasses very interesting - they need smoke from bush fires to multiply.

Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden, India- Once an Emperor declared this land as Heaven on Earth, and this beautiful garden with its colorful blossom of Tulips sprawling across the foothills of Zabarwan Range, overlooking the famous Dal Lake, only goes on to prove his vision further. With an aim to boost tourism in this part of India, the garden was opened for public view in 2007.

Keukenhof, The Netherlands - Also famous as the Garden of Europe, this is where the song ‘Dekha Ek Khwab’ from Silsila was shot. Well, every step on this piece of land is worth a dream. The world’s largest flower garden as it is, this land stretched across 32 hectares gets planted with around 7 million flower bulbs every year. If you want to witness the best view of glowing tulips, visit Keukenhof during mid-March to mid-May.

Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden - This 66 acres of land in East Dallas, provides the best combination of fountains with a garden and a lake view. All round the year, they host a series of festivals and summer at the Arboretum, the 12 Days of Christmas, and Summer at the Arboretum are just a few to name. One might not want to miss the largest floral festival - Dallas Blooms that exhibits over 500,000 blooming bulbs of spring.

Suan Nong Nooch, Thailand - Ever since its inauguration back in 1980 has pleased zillions of tourists, all thanks to Miss Nong Nooch who conceived the idea. The spectacular landscape presents a splendid variety of Palms and Cycad. To add, it is the richest collection of the Orchids one can imagine. Once you are in Thailand, don’t miss out of the interesting shows hosted by Suan Nong Nooch.

The Butchart Gardens, British Columbia, Canada - Home to 900 variations of colorful flowers in the world, the uninterrupted bloom from over a million bedding plants can be cherished all-round the year and draws an average of a million visitors annually. Hence it claimed the prestigious designation of a National Historic Site of Canada for itself.

Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew - You can’t just afford to miss this beautiful garden put together by Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. This non-departmental public body holds importance in areas of education and botanical research. Governed by a board of 12 trustees, Kew employs 250 scientists and is home to over 1,040,400 species of plants from all around the globe.

Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew - You can’t just afford to miss this beautiful garden put together by Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. This non-departmental public body holds importance in areas of education and botanical research. Governed by a board of 12 trustees, Kew employs 250 scientists and is home to over 1,040,400 species of plants from all around the globe.

Who doesn’t love the view of a dream-like landscape replete with nature’s greatest gifts- flowers - that bring peace to the heart and relief to the mind? If you are exhausted by the traffic and pollution of your city life, take a break - visit these gardens that replicates heaven if one may have at all seen.

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