The most beautiful flower gardens and parks in the world (5 photos)

Natural wonders, along with the world's most popular attractions, attract travelers from all over the world, who are willing to travel to another continent to admire the purple wisteria, soak up the tart scent of lavender, or stroll through the world's longest flower conservatory. Our review explores the most famous and luxurious flower gardens and parks from Japan to Canada.







1. The Butchart Gardens

More than a century ago, the Butchart family of industrialists from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, decided to create a flower garden on their land, which is now designated a National Historic Landmark. Designer Isaburo Kishida contributed to the park's landscape design, recreating the atmosphere of a secluded Japanese garden in this remote land of immigrants, complete with traditional features such as babbling streams, waterfalls, and wooden bridges. The Butchart Gardens are open to visitors year-round, with seasonal flowers and plants changing each other, making it equally colorful and secluded at any time of year.





2. Kawachi Fuji Garden

Just a few hours' drive from Tokyo lies one of the world's most stunning flower gardens—Kawachi Fuji Garden. It boasts thousands of unique and rare varieties of flowers and plants from all over the world, but the garden is most famous for its mesmerizing Wisteria Tunnel. A shower of hanging garlands of white, pink, and lilac wisterias stretches for kilometers, winding in labyrinths, creating cozy corridors, and covering centuries-old trees. According to Japanese tradition, a garden is incomplete without at least one wisteria. In this sense, Kawachi Fuji is the pinnacle of nature's perfection.



3. Keukenhof

Only superlatives apply to the royal flower garden Keukenhof, located in the Dutch town of Lisse: the most famous, the largest, and even the most photographed, according to a global camera manufacturer. Nearly 5 million tulips, over a hundred different varieties, bloom annually on this 32-hectare site. In addition to tulips in every natural hue, the Garden of Europe, also known as Keukenhof, features roses, orchids, daffodils, lilacs, hyacinths, and crocuses. The best time to visit the park is from March to the end of May, and in April, it hosts an annual flower parade, unparalleled in the world in its scope, complexity, and beauty.



4. Dubai Miracle Garden

A floral oasis the size of a small European city in the middle of a scorching desert—only in Dubai. From October to May, more than 45 million flowers of various species bloom in Dubai Miracle Garden. The park's staff proudly claim that their flower garden's palette includes over 60 different shades. Winding paths stretching four kilometers are surrounded by numerous arches, geometric flowerbeds, and landscape compositions. Among the most striking and striking exhibits are the flower clock, which was included in the Guinness Book of Records, a 10-meter pyramid, and a miniature replica of the Great Wall of China—albeit only 800 meters long, but made of roses, orchids, and azaleas.



5. Provence

From late June to mid-August, Provence becomes the epicenter of French tourism. Romantics from all over the world come here to stroll through lush olive groves, find the comfort and tranquility of the countryside, and, of course, be amazed by the endless lavender fields. Although lavender grows in almost every garden in Provence, to see this fragrant sea of ​​flowers, you need to travel through the northern part of the region. The most stunning views of the purple expanse open up in the Drôme Provençale, Vaucluse, and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence regions.