What is the most famous garden in the world?
Raked gravel in Kyoto, seven million bulbs in the Netherlands, steel trees in Singapore and a pond a painter dug himself.
1Boboli GardensThe Medici hillside behind the Pitti Palace in Florence.1000pts
2Monet's Garden at GivernyThe lily pond and Japanese bridge Monet planted, then painted for thirty years.943pts
3Ryoan-jiFifteen rocks in raked gravel in Kyoto, arranged so one is always hidden.877pts
4Suzhou Humble Administrator's GardenA sixteenth-century Chinese scholar's garden of ponds, pavilions and rockeries.692pts
5Powerscourt Estate GardensItalianate terraces under the Wicklow mountains in Ireland.692pts
6Gardens by the BaySingapore's Supertrees and climate-controlled conservatories.491pts
7Butchart GardensA worked-out limestone quarry on Vancouver Island turned into a sunken garden.491pts
8Sissinghurst Castle GardenVita Sackville-West's garden rooms in Kent, including the White Garden.491pts
9Central Park Conservatory GardenSix formal acres inside Manhattan's park.491pts
10KeukenhofSeven million bulbs planted every autumn to flower for eight weeks.491pts
11Peterhof Grand CascadeSixty-four fountains stepping down to the Gulf of Finland.491pts
12Gardens of VersaillesLe Notre's axes, fountains and canal, laid out for Louis XIV.360pts
13Kew GardensLondon's botanic collection and its Victorian Palm House.360pts
14Villa d'EsteA Renaissance hillside at Tivoli run entirely by gravity-fed fountains.360pts
15Alhambra GeneralifeWater channels and courtyards above Granada.360pts
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Giverny is the only garden here designed as a subject rather than an ornament, and about 750,000 people a year go to see it: https://youpick.best/articles/monet-ranked-many-ways
