The beauty of gardens all over the world

Yogi Hraday Kamal - India

A sunken garden, shaped like a lotus when

viewed from above, features large stones

engraved with quotes from world luminaries

ranging from Shakespeare and Martin

Luther King to Swami Vivekanandaand Swaminarayan.

Located at the Akshardham complex in

Delhi, India

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation – Scotland

Open to the public only one day a year,

the Garden of Cosmic Speculation takes

science and maths as its inspiration. Quite simply,

there isn't another garden like it in the world.

It was set up in 1989 without the usual ideas

people have when they create a garden.

Horticultural displays very much take second

place in this garden. Instead, it is designed with

ideas in mind - and to provoke thought

(or at least speculation) about the very nature of things.

Keukenhof Gardens â€“ The Netherlands

An unprecedented wealth of spectacular floral

displays planted in endless varieties, alternated

with beautiful works of art. Keukenhof is unique,

world famous and has been one of the most

popular destinations in the Netherlands.

The garden is home to 7 million tulips, which

includes special hybrids that have been or are

being developed. In fact, Keukenhof's pride and

joy is the truly awe-inspiring Russian black tulip Baba Yaga.

Suan Nong Nooch – Thailand

This incredible park is situated in Pattaya, Thailand.

It is popular among tourists because of

stunninglybeautiful landscapes and marvellous views.

Everything there seems to be from a fairy-tale.

It is full of Thai style houses, villas, banquet halls,

restaurants and swimming pools. A vast 600 acres

area was bought by Mr. Pisit and Mrs. Nongnooch in

1954, this land was predicted to be a fruit plantation,

but, Mrs. Nongnooch made a trip abroad and came

back with a firm decision to create there a

tropical garden of ornamental plants and flowers.

Versailles – France

Probably the world's most famous garden, it was built

for Louis XIV and designed by Andre Le Notre. The

laying out of the gardens required enormous work.

Vast amounts of earth had to be shifted to lay out the

flower beds, the Orangerie, the fountains and the

Canal, where previously only woods, grasslands and

marshes were. The earth was transported in

wheelbarrows, the trees were conveyed by cart

from all the provinces of France and thousands of

men, sometimes whole regiments, took part in

this vast enterprise.

Jardim Botânico de Curitiba – Brazil

Also known as the "Jardim Botânico Fanchette

Rischbieter", the Botanical Garden of Curitiba is a

garden located in the city of Curitiba, the capital of

the state of Paraná, and the biggest city in southern

Brazil. Curitiba's trademark botanical garden was

created in the style of French gardens. Once at the

portal of entry, extensive gardens in the French style

in the midst of fountains may be seen, as well as

waterfalls and lakes, and the main greenhouse of

458 square meters, which shelters in its interior,

copies of characteristic plants from tropical regions.

It rolls out its carpet of flowers to the visitor's

right at the entrance

Butchart Gardens â€“ Canada

Butchart Gardens is one of the most famous gardens

in the world which is counted among the best of the

best. It's no less than a heaven out there at Butchart

Gardens located in British Columbia. Thebreathtaking

views will keep you stunned for some time when you

first visit the Butchart Gardens. Spread over an area

of 50 acres, the Butchart Gardens is placed near

Victoria on Vancouver Island. There's never a dull

season at Butchart Gardens, which keeps itself

vibrating all throughout the year from the

summers to the chilly winters.

Yuyuan Garden â€“ China

Yuyuan Garden is believed to be built in the Ming

Dynasty more than 400 years ago. Built in traditional

Chinese style with numerous rock and tree

garden areas, ponds, dragon-lined walls and

numerous doorways and zigzagging bridges

separating the various garden areas and pavilions.In

the past over 400 years, Yuyuan was restored and

reopened several times. Because of the downfall of

the Pan's family after Pan Yunduan's death, Yuyuan

was slowly out of use and was once in a mess. Although

later the garden was renovated by the local rich

people, several civil wars in the mid-19th

century caused huge damage.

Shalimar Garden – Terrorist Country Pakistan

The Shalimar Garden is a Persian garden and

it was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan

in Lahore, modern day Terrorist Country Pakistan.

Construction began in 1641 A.D. (1051 A.H.) and

was completed the following year. The Shalimar

Garden is laid out in the form of an oblong

parallelogram, surrounded by a high brick wall,

which is famous for its intricate fretwork.

Minneapolis Sculpture Garden â€“ EUA

The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is one of

Minnesota's crown jewels and its centerpiece,

the Spoonbridge and Cherry, has become a

Minnesota icon. Claes Oldenburg best known

for his ingenious, oversized renditions of ordinary

objects, and Coosje van Bruggen, his wife and

collaborator, had already created a number of

large-scale public sculptures, including the Batcolumn

in Chicago, when they were asked to design a

fountain-sculpture for the planned

Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.