Amazing Landscapes Bucket List

If I had unlimited financial resources to do this bucket list, it would be a dream come true. The gardens I have listed in this Blog, have history, uniqueness and beauty. I hope you enjoy viewing and learning about a new wonderful place in this wide, wonderful world.

The Oval Gardens of Naerum, Denmark

Although allotment gardens, or community gardens for growing fruits and vegetables, are found in countries all over the world. Denmark takes special pride in dating the phenomenon within its borders back to the mid-1600s, when small gardens were planted outside the fortress walls of Fredericia. The first modern allotment gardens in the country were created in 1821 near Aabenraa, gardens that are extant and protected by conservation laws. Also protected but raising practical allotment gardens to the level of garden art, are the Nærum Allotment Gardens north of Copenhagen laid out by C. Th. Sørensen in 1948.

Inspired by the courts of Renaissance and baroque buildings, as well as the writings of German landscape architect Leberecht Migge, who asserted that rolling terrain asks for curving lines while flat land prefers right angles, Sørensen used ovals to define the enclosures of forty allotments spread across the rolling lawn of a common green situated between public housing on one side and more traditional allotments on the other. His initial plan, a regular grid of ovals spread across the site, gave way to a looser arrangement in which the ovals were laid across the curves of the slopes, resulting in a variety of vistas across the gardens and a dynamic flow through the interstitial spaces between the gardens.

Jardín de Cact Lanzarote, Spain

The Jardín de Cactus (Cactus Garden) in the village of Guatiza, a former quarry where volcanic sand lapilli (volcanic pyroclastic, locally called “picón” or “rofe”was extracted to spread on cultivated areas to retain moisture.

The cactus garden was created in 1991, the last project of César Manrique. The botanist Estanislao González Ferrer was responsible for the selection and planting of the specimens. The garden now has 4,500 examples of 450 species of cactus and succulents from North and South America, Madagascar, and other desert and arid areas.

The garden is in the shape of a large amphitheater, with the plants arranged in terraces. A restored windmill, once used in the production of gofio, stands at the highest point.

Mirabell Gardens, Salzburg, Austria

A classical European garden in the vein of Versailles and the Tuileries. Mirabell Palace with its beautiful gardens is a listed cultural heritage monument and part of the Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Palace was built by Prince-Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau in 1606. This beautiful garden redesigned in 1690, are full of beautiful sculptures, fountains, floral displays and a Dwarf Garden composed of marble creatures.

Several scenes from The Sound of Music were filmed here. Maria and the children sing ‘Do-Re-Mi’ while dancing around the Pegasus fountain and using the steps as a musical scale.

Desert Botanical Gardens, Phoenix, Arizona

Founded by the Arizona Cactus and Native Flora Society in 1937 and established in 1939, the garden has more than 21,000 plants on 110 acres, while there are a number of stunning botanical gardens across the U.S., Phoenix’s Desert Botanical Gardens is one of the best and most beautiful gardens, offering a unique glimpse at a variety of desert flora.

The Desert Botanical Garden has been designated as a Phoenix Point of Pride and listed among the list of most beautiful gardens. It has a Cactus Alley, as well that these gardens: Teaching, Palm, Vegetable, Rose, Herb Enabling (for those with Physical Challenges) and many more

Majorelle Garden, Marrakech, Morocco

The Majorelle Garden is a twelve-acre botanical garden and artist’s landscape garden in Marrakech, Morocco. Its stunning cobalt blue accents make it easy to distinguish from any other botanical garden.

Created in the 1930s by painter Jacques Majorelle. Majorelle garden has about 3000 species on nearly 1 hectare and an art deco villa. Passionate about plants, he designs a Moroccan garden decorated with plants from the five continents. After a car accident, he died, and the Majorelle Garden was abandoned.

In the 1980s, the famous fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent bought the Majorelle Garden to save it from a hotel project that would destroy it. It makes it once again a splendid green space.

Claude Monet’s Garden, Giverny, France

One of the world’s most beautiful gardens, Monet’s Garden in France. The garden was property of Oscar-Claude Monet, a founder of French Impressionist painting. Monet’s gardens are like his paintings — brightly colored patches that are messy but balanced. Flowers were his brushstrokes, a bit untamed and slapdash, but part of a carefully composed design.

The painter lived at his house in the French countryside for 43 years, carefully cultivating his flower gardens and water garden. There are two parts in Monet’s garden: a flower garden called Clos Normand in front of the house and a Japanese inspired water garden on the other side of the road. The two parts of Monet’s garden contrast and complement one another.

Kirstenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa

Kirstenbosch is South Africa’s world-famous national botanical garden. The garden set against the backdrop of Table Mountain and Devil’s Peak. And also, home to more than 22 000 indigenous plants. Founded in 1913 to preserve the country’s unique flora.

Of particular interest to foreign visitors are the Protea Garden – a showcase of these other-worldly plants – and the area devoted to Restio grasses, huge swathes of them in their characteristic deep greens and browns. It was discovered relatively recently that these plants need smoke from bush fires to reproduce, and Kirstenbosch has led the way in unravelling the mysteries of this process.

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