Your international guide for all your flower events and gardens

'A World of Flowers'

The Dallas Arboretum is happy to present the theme “A World of Flowers.” Each week during Dallas Blooms showcases different regions of the world. Did you know that tulips are from Greece, not Holland? This annual event is one of the largest floral festivals in the southwest, with over a 100 varieties of spring bulbs exploding with color and 500,000 blooms that will dazzle you. Join us at the International Crossroads Village, located in Pecan Grove, where we will share the cultures around the world.he festival runs through begin April, and ends with the mass flowering of 3,000 azaleas set to bloom at the end of April.

“DAHLIA DREAMS” FLORAL DISPLAY (大丽花之梦)

Stroll through a Chinese garden blooming with colourful dahlias as the popular "Dahlia Dreams" floral display at Gardens by the Bay returns once again to usher in a brand new year.

Amidst a scenic landscape dotted with elegant pavilions, rotating water wheels, and a majestic 40-metre-long archway of red lanterns, take time to admire the spectacular dahlias – some with blooms as large as one's face – along with other festive and auspicious plants like narcissus, cymbidium and chrysanthemum. Keep your eyes peeled for the exquisite Senrinzaki or "Thousand Blooms" chrysanthemum arrangements, which have been painstakingly cultivated over a period of at least one year to present the magnificent display of 500 to 1,500 flowers blooming from a single plant.

To celebrate the Year of the Pig, delightful sculptures of the animal can also be spotted in Gardens by the Bay's first floral display of …

Dubai Miracle Garden: The world’s biggest natural flower garden!

Miracle Garden Dubai – in Arabic: دبي معجزة حديقة – is one of a kind in the region and in the world for such a unique display and extravagant outdoor recreational destination.

A flower garden is not expected in the desert, yet there is a huge garden in Dubai since 2013. In the Miracle Garden Dubai you can see over 45 million flowers in about 60 different species, some even to be planted for the first time in the Gulf region.

Please watch out for spectacular natural flowers in different designs structures! Credit to the owner of the video, thank you for making Dubai Miracle Garden as your one of your dream place to visit!

As the biggest and best Boston flower show, this mammoth event features more than 25 unique display gardens by the area's top nurseries and design firms.

In addition, you can view award-winning flower arrangements, learn from numerous presentations and demonstrations throughout the day, and explore the wide array of garden, culinary, landscaping, building, and decorative objects on sale by vendors.

Whether you crave a glimpse of spring beauty and garden design ideas, or need to find talented professionals to make your dream landscape come true, or simply want to shop, there's something here for everyone to enjoy.

Garden Show Display Gardens
Some gardens demonstrate building materials, especially those using sustainable products. If you're planning a project to create outdoor living space, the Boston Flower and Garden Show will give you plenty of ideas.

Big Tulip Festival with 1 million tulips

Flowers and illumination can be enjoyed in the spring, the most beautiful season

Huis Ten Bosch is located in Kyushu Nagasaki Sasebo city, it's a "small Europe" which models Holland in the middle ages with beautiful canal, attraction, museums etc. and is especially known as one of the biggest theme park in Japan for its flower festival and illumination Kingdom Celebration.

Huge! Oldest! Various tulips from all over the world are exhibited.

Various tulips from all over the world welcome you in front garden of Palace Huis Ten Bosch.

Keukenhof, the best day out among the flowers!

There are more than 7 million bulbs in bloom this spring, with a total of 800 varieties of tulips. A unique and unforgettable experience!

Besides the spacious 32 hectares of flowers you can enjoy the spectacular flower shows, surprising inspirational gardens, unique artwork and wonderful events. Do not miss the Tulpomania exhibition in the Juliana Pavilion.

Keukenhof’s 2019 theme will be Flower Power, the strength of flowers.

The historic park was designed midway through the Romantic period (1857) as an ornamental garden for Castle [Kasteel] Keukenhof. Since 1950, millions of tulips have flowered in the atmospheric garden around the pond with its gorgeous vistas and centuries-old beech trees. Many generations experienced joyous moments there. Propose to your loved ones in the romantic tulip garden or have a secret rendezvous in the Cupid Garden or the Love Paradise. Say it with flowers …. …

Enjoy the calmness and Beauty of Floralia Brussels!

The spring flower exhibition in the park and the greenhouses of the castle of Grand Bigard (Groot-Bijgaarden) offers an unforgettable flower experience. The park of 14 hectares incorporates nearly all spring bulb varieties. For the new flowering time, the gardeners of the castle have planted by hand more than one million bulbs.  Special attention goes to the tulips, with almost 400 varieties, hyacinths and daffodils are also well represented.

Amaryllis flower show at the Castle chapel

Come at April, to see a constant stream of excited gardens.
It’s 14-hectare park, where are more than one-and-a-half million bulbs for its annual International Flower Exhibition.
Also present in huge numbers are narcissuses and dafodils, including rare varieties such as the papillon narcissus, as well as grape hyacinths, violets, azaleas and rhododendrons. Inside the park’s massive, newly restored greenhouse the flower arrangements will …

The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show is a flower show located in the World Heritage Site of Carlton Gardens, and the Royal Exhibition Building.

Beginning in 1995 the event has been annually held in Melbourne, Australia, and has grown in reputation to be the largest annual flower event and garden show in the Southern Hemisphere! Visitors can expect to see the creativity and passion of Australia’s top floral and landscape designers through their stunning displays, as well as have access to great food and entertainment. This event is open to all ages and is family-friendly.

"Sakura" Cherry Blossoms in Japan

Forecast and where to see them

The cherry blossom (sakura) is Japan's unofficial national flower. It has been celebrated for many centuries and holds a very prominent position in Japanese culture. There are many dozens of different cherry tree varieties in Japan, most of which bloom for just a couple of days in spring. The seasonal spectacle is celebrated with hanami (cherry blossom viewing) parties under the trees.

Below is a list of some of Japan's most popular cherry blossom spots with the typical timing for best viewing in the average year.

TOKYO

Shinjuku Gyoen - Early April
features more than one thousand cherry trees of over a dozen varieties, including numerous early and late blooming trees. There are spacious lawn areas, and the atmosphere is calm and peaceful. Thanks to the early and late blooming trees, Shinjuku Gyoen is a good hanami destination for …

Keukenhof garden tour: On a bed of Tulips

Like the colorful palette of a painter. It’s the best way to describe the Keukenhof Garden, probably the most beautiful spring garden in the world. With over more than 7 million flower bulbs in bloom each spring, it’s hardly arguable. Reason enough to plan a Keukenhof Garden Tour.

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English landscape garden

The origin of the Keukenhof Garden is to be found in 15th-century hunting grounds. Those grounds were owned by countess Jacoba van Beieren, who used it as a source for fruits and vegetables. In 1857 the gardens of the castle with the same name were redesigned. Those English landscape based castle gardens are up to this day the foundation of what Keukenhof Garden is today. A pleasant park to …

Madeira - celebrating springtime

In Madeira, springtime is honoured like a queen, being crowned with the Flower Festival, held every year after Easter.

In celebrating springtime and the exuberance of the flowers that typically bloom in that season, and here with even greater intensity due to Madeira’s subtropical climate, Funchal is the setting for a truly sumptuous spectacle, the city’s Flower Festival.

The festivities begin on the Saturday, when thousands of children dressed in the appropriate fashion flock to the Praça do Município to take part in the building of a mural of flowers - the Wall of Hope.

The next day, dozens of floats decorated with a myriad of the island’s most typical flowers leave the scent of gentle but ephemeral perfumes in the air - it is time for the Flower Parade. At the same time, to mark the occasion, Madeiran artists devote their time to building unforgettable …

You Have To Visit In a Lifetime

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden - Florida US

In Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden  conserve and teach a lot of tropical plants. The garden’s Center for Tropical Plant Conservation has conserved many group of plants from different places like South Florida, the Caribbean, Oceanic Islands, tropical Africa and Madagascar. The Garden is also the laeding centar of palm research. It research palms for about 70 years.

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

Jardin Majorelle - Marrakech Morocco

The Majorelle Garden is all in blue color which make it a different from the other botanical gardens. The Garden is created by Jacques Majorelle in 1920s. Today its owner is a famous fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent.

The garden covers nearly two and a half acres. Collections of cacti, exotic plants and trees are landscaped to emphasize each one’s unique beauty. The paths allow us to see how the architectural style …

Not To Miss Tulip Festivals Around the World!

March 20th marks the first day of spring, and that means warmer weather, tulips in full bloom! Cities and towns all around the world have already started gearing up for festivals honoring spring’s favorite flower. This uniquely colored flower only pops up for a few weeks every year, so you’ll want to make the most of this year’s tulip bloom by visiting some of the most beautiful tulip festivals.

There are so many tulip festivals, but the Keukenhof Gardens is the best we known. Keukenhof, the best day out among the flowers! Over 7 million bulbs will bloom this spring, with a total of 800 varieties of tulips. A unique, unforgettable experience!

There are many tulip festival around the world. We've made a list with all the festivals. Which one are you going to visit?

Top Tulip festivals …

Keukenhof, the flower fields and a bulb farm is a must visit during tulip season

To visit Keukenhof is an exciting day trip from Amsterdam to the most beautiful tulip fields in the world. With over 7 million tulip bulbs and over 800 different species, Keukenhof is a colorful experience not just for flower lovers. Tours & Tickets offers an excursion to both the gardens and a visit to a bulb farm.

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A visit to Keukenhof was one of the main reasons why we wanted to visit Holland this last spring. We decided to combine Keukenhof with a city trip to Amsterdam since Tours & Tickets organizes trips from the centre of Amsterdam to the bulb gardens and it gave us the chance to …

Italy's Best Infiorata Festivals

During May and June, Infiorata festivals are held in various Italian towns and are definitely a must to see, if you are planning to visit one of the many regions where these festivals take place. From North to South, there are various options to make sure you will not miss this experience during your next trip to Italy in late spring-early summer.
We chose three Infiorate festivals in particular, Noto, Genzano and Spello.

The Infiorata Festivals are held in various parts of Italy, besides Noto in Sicily, Spello in Umbria and Genzano in Lazio, you can visit similar festivals in Pienza in Tuscany, Orvieto in Umbria, Potenzoni di Briatico in Calabria, Brugnato in Liguria, The Abbey of Chiaravalle della Colomba in Fidenza, Emilia Romagna.

Spello’s Fabulous Celebration of Flower

The feast of Corpus Domini (the Body of Christ) is one of the most spectacular …

Sunflower van Gogh - The story behind a masterpiece

The famous Sunflower van Gogh are the subject of still life paintings from the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. This painting is a depiction of a vase of 15 sunflowers at a yellow background. All sunflowers are already out of the bud. This painting was painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1889 in Arles.

Vincent's life

Vincent van Gogh was born in 1853 in the village of Zundert - Holland. In 1869 he started as a clerk in an art trade from his uncle. He worked there for seven years and sometimes he had to go to another branch in London or Paris. At the age of 28 he began seriously with drawing and painting. Around 1885 painted Vincent van Gogh the famous painting  "The Potato Eaters"

In 1886 he goes to Paris. In 1888 he moves to the …

Get ready for Spring at the “Connecticut Flower & Garden Show”

A sweet shot of spring when we need it most! We're so happy to join the giant garden party that is the Connecticut Flower Show. Come enjoy beautiful landscaped gardens and visit the garden design, horticulture and photography competitions based on the "Woodland Enchantment" theme.

Explore over 300 booths overflowing with fresh flowers, plants, herbs, bulbs, seeds, gardening books, garden equipments & much more. View beautifully landscaped gardens. Visit the Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut design & horticulture competition. Attend over 80 hours of seminars and demonstrations.

The Pacific Orchid Exposition is one of the largest orchid shows in the United States.

Having trouble keeping your plants alive and healthy? Be sure to visit the “Plant Doctors” for advice on all your growing needs. Throughout the event there will be docent tours and skilled horticultural experts to educate and guide attendees through the various orchid displays and award-winning flowers.

Gather tips on how to grow your orchids while spending the day with your family and friends. You’ll find that this exposition is an ideal outing: with a silent auction, live music, and beautiful flowers from all over the world, this is one show you won’t want to miss!

The “Mad Hatter Tea Party” gala preview night is sure to be an exciting event! Costumes are encouraged! Attendees will have first pick from 23 orchid and tropical plant vendors, enjoy live music, award winning wines, and light appetizers. …

India's Largest Exhibition on Floriculture, Nursery & Greenhouse Technology

INDIA - World's 2nd Largest Market
With over 300 million population of middle and higher income group against nearly 1.2 billion population, India is the world's 2nd largest consumer base and fastest growing retail destination. The increasing per capita income is pushing people to lead a lavish life. Flower decoration in houses is gaining momentum with the changing of life style of the people in India. Thus flower consumption is growing at a whopping speed of 30% per annum. Numerous festivals have added to the demands of flowers and have made India a floral super power of the future. A huge domestic market supports and high quality export oriented flower production is providing a unique competitive edge. India, China, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan along with other countries of the region make South Asia, the world's largest market and India …

The Annual Noida Flower Show would be organized. Like every year the show would be conducted by Noida Horticultural Society in association with Noida Authority at the sector 21A Noida Stadium.

Garden Competition
There would be a Garden Competition open to residents of Delhi and NCR. Participants will be adjudged by the gardening experts from NCR. The winners will receive the coveted trophy. While second and third position will settle for a the winning cups. The competition is divided under various categories – terrace gardens, residential lawns, institutional and corporate gardens, school gardens and road-side green areas.

Highlights of Noida Flower Show
Life-sized gardens, flower displays, how-to workshops and instructional seminars are integral part of the Noida Flower Show. Competitions in various categories of plants, floral displays also called ikebana, fruit and vegetable and carvings are the visitors delights. Stalls put up by various nurseries and home-grown green …

The Rose Festival of Chandigarh is one of the biggest rose shows held in India. The venue is the famous Zakir Hussain Rose Garden Situated in the city of Chandigarh. The garden has over 50.000 rose plants and bushes of more than 825 varieties, delivering a spectacular visual treat. The Rose Festival is an annual and much eagerly-waited event. The garden is open for visitors throughout the year but the festival is undoubtedly the best time to visit the place to enjoy the sight of colorful display of the largest variety of roses in one place.

Significance of the Rose Festival of Chandigarh
The rose festival is a major event and is held for three days. The festival is attended by people from India as well as international tourists. According to conservative estimates, about 300.000 people attend the festival every year on an average with the numbers increasing every …

'A World of Flowers'

The Dallas Arboretum is happy to present the theme “A World of Flowers.” Each week during Dallas Blooms showcases different regions of the world. Did you know that tulips are from Greece, not Holland? This annual event is one of the largest floral festivals in the southwest, with over a 100 varieties of spring bulbs exploding with color and 500,000 blooms that will dazzle you. Join us at the International Crossroads Village, located in Pecan Grove, where we will share the cultures around the world.he festival runs through begin April, and ends with the mass flowering of 3,000 azaleas set to bloom at the end of April.

Get closer to nature this spring at the Garden Tourism Festival in Delhi

Spring brings a bounty of joy and freshness in the air. As we welcome the season with open arms, Delhi Tourism is set to host the 30th Garden Tourism Festival at the Garden of Five Senses in the Capital. Gardening is one of the effective ways of staying in touch with nature and the three-day extravaganza has been a trend for almost three decades now.

To charm garden enthusiasts, the festival has been themed on ‘Skills in Gardening’ this year. Sprawling gardens will set the city ablaze with a riot of colourful flowers. Floral displays, theme gardens and horticultural demonstrations at the festival will put the spotlight on a variety of flowers, potted plants and bonsai. The venue beautifully brings the essence of the festival alive with its attractions such as court of palm, court of cacti, …

Lentetuin Breezand "Spring Garden Breezand"

Beautiful flowers
Many bulb growers from the north of North Holland come and show their beautiful flowers at the Spring Garden event. There was a large variety of tulips, lilies, daffodils, crocuses, hyacinths, callas and other special bulbs on show.

Fairy tales
Over the past years, the Spring Garden event in Breezand has evolved into a professional event. The fragrant flowers were used in floral arrangements and placed among the tales of Hansel and Gretel, Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood. The combination of fairy tales and spring flowers was definitely enchanting!

The Tulip Field
You can began picking your tulips mid/end of February and you can pick all the way through end of March/early April, but it all depends on the weather.

In total, you have about 90 varieties of tulips to choose from (early, mid, and late-flowering varieties). The availability of varieties changes throughout the picking season.

Here’s how it works:

- Take a picking basket, which is available on the field.
- Pick the tulips you want to buy and create your own wonderful bunch of tulips!
- Bring us your tulips—we will wrap the tulips for you beautiful flower paper and put a special gel on the stems to preserve your tulips until you can get them home.
- Take your tulips home or enjoy the rest of your day—the gel will preserve them all day long!

Styling Advice
The gel keeps the …

Every year, Yanbu adds a little spring to its land by creating the largest flower carpet in the world at the Events Garden at Yanbu Industrial City. It is 10712.75 square meters big and has been organized by Royal Commission of Landscaping and Irrigation Department in the city.

In addition to providing a beautiful scene for the visitors, the festival aims to allow people to be environmentally aware of different plants and flowers in the location, how to successfully grow them, and even provide supplies for their home gardens.

You all have heard about the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival right?

While the tulips are our most famous blooms, there’s nothing quite as wonderful as entire fields of bright, cheery daffodils against our Mt. Baker backdrop. It’s just so beautiful in March with the Daffodils blooming and there are so many fun events and exhibits in La Conner during the month of March. If you can’t make it to Skagit Valley Tulip Festival in April, skip the crowds and join us in March this year for the La Conner Daffodil Festival!

La Conner Daffodil Festival Fun Facts!

According to Brent Roozen, owner of RoozenGaarde and the Washington Bulb Company, RoozenGaarde grows more than 450 acres of daffodils, compared to 350 acres of tulips.

The three major varieties planted are Dutch Master, Flower Carpet and Standard Value – Dutch Master is the world’s most popular daffodil.

Fields of daffodils are …

Welcoming of Early Spring in Royal garden of Prague castle & Anniversary of Maria Teresa

The visitors cane welcome early spring in Prague castle. This is exactly the name of exhibit in North castle garden. At the time, when the gardens around the body of Prague castle are still closed due to winter season the exception for Royal garden is arranged and the visitors can attend during two weeks in March gorgeous parade of bulb flowers as hyacinths, narcissus, amaryllis, tulips, lapwings and others plants.

Take yourself out of the ordinary!

For over sixty years, Mother Nature has transformed the rolling hills of north San Diego County into one of the most spectacular and coordinated displays of natural color and beauty anywhere in the world.

The nearly fifty acres of Giant Tecolote Ranunculus flowers that make up The Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch® in Carlsbad, California, are in bloom for approximately six to eight weeks each year – from early March through early May – literally bringing the famous fields back to life.
This annual burst of color, which has become part of the area’s local heritage, also is one of nature’s official ways of announcing the arrival of spring here in southern California.

Brace yourself for welcoming spring with a colorful bang of flower power throughout the Garden during March and April. Celebrate the new season with hundreds of thousands of tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses and perennial bulbs.

Bloom times vary. The exhibition is designed to bloom over several weeks depending on Mother Nature

Enjoy a nice, peaceful stroll!

Horticulturists, nature lovers and history buffs will find something unique to see each season at The Elizabethan Gardens. Winter, spring, summer and fall contribute to the everchanging beauty and tranquility of this unique garden, an oasis of color in a land of sea and sun.

You’re on vacation. It’s time to relax. Right? The Elizabethan Gardens is the perfect place to reconnect with the natural world. Here’s some tips to enjoy your visit:

- While you leisurely stroll the dapple-shaded paths, notice the points of light above made by the tree canopy and the lace-patterns the light makes at your feet.

- Sit at one of the carved marble or elegant cast stone benches. Close your eyes and breathe in deeply the fragrant air. Listen to nature’s symphony.

- Be on the lookout for birds! The gardens is part of the NC Birding Trail.

- …

Benmore Botanic Garden in its majestic mountain setting is a vital link to disappearing wilderness.
Visitors enter the Garden through the great Redwood Avenue planted in 1863 by Piers Patrick, a wealthy American who had bought the estate the year before.

Formal Garden
Another popular feature of the Garden is Puck's Hut which celebrates the memory of Isaac Bayley Balfour. He was Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh from 1888 to 1922 and it was he who first thought of creating a west coast botanic garden. The wooden hut designed by Robert Lorimer and tiled in red cedar can be found at the head of the Formal Garden.

A much photographed feature is the bronze statue 'A boy with two dolphins' which dates back to 1875 and is a legacy of James Duncan, a Greenock sugar refiner, who took over the house in 1870. He made …

The formal gardens have undergone several changes over the centuries with most Duchesses leaving their mark from Elizabeth the 5th Duchess who commissioned the Rev Sir John Thoroton to terrace this area in 1815 to Violet the 8th Duchess who commissioned Harold Peto to redesign the gardens as we know and love them today.

Please note before you traveling
Due to Belvoir Castle and garden being the family home to the Rutland Family we are only open on selected days throughout the year, please check the full year calendar on there website for opening dates before travelling.

The Japanese Woodland
located to the right of the embankment as you approach the castle.
There are over 250 specimen Camellias planted in the Japanese Woodland along with tree magnolias, specimen hydrangeas, azaleas and rhododendrons, snake-bark and Japanese maples and various bamboos.

Duchess Garden
There are …

Logan is an exotic paradise tucked away on the south-western tip of Scotland and set amidst some of the most majestic scenery the country has to offer.

Famed for its tender collections, Logan's Walled Garden is a showcase for brilliant blooms and is ablaze with colour throughout the season. The fishpond, adorned with water lilies, creates a focal point and embellishes the air of tranquillity within the Garden.

Birds-eye view of the Walled GardenWarmed by the Gulf Stream, the climate provides the ideal growing conditions for an amazing collection of southern hemisphere plants.

The Woodland Garden is also a delight. It is a haven for a host of weird and wonderful plants and trees such as eucalyptus to the gunnera bog.Chusan Palms

A stroll to the highest point will reward visitors with breathtaking views over the Rhins to the Galloway Hills and beyond.

The Discovery Centre, situated near to the …

Welcome to Trewithen

An historic private estate boasting one of the loveliest gardens in England.

Home to the same family for more than 300 years and an International Camellia Garden of Excellence, Trewithen’s horticulture, Champion Trees, intriguing pathways and unexpected treasures are both memorable and exceptional.

Trewithen means ‘house of the trees’ and with 30 acres of surrounding woodland gardens and more than two hundred acres of parkland, the name couldn’t be more appropriate.

Trewithen has nearly 30 acres of woodland gardens and about 200 acres of surrounding parkland. It is a fascinating place to visit in Cornwall – full of hidden-away areas, magnificent flora and fauna and stunning countryside views. Be prepared to go off the beaten track to discover all sorts of fascinating trees and shrubs – many of them the result of often dangerous plant hunting expeditions to far-flung places. Don’t forget to visit our red …

You can pick a bunch of tulips on Union Square San Francisco. The tulip picking garden opens at 1 pm and will be open until 4.30 pm. Each person can pick their own bouquet of 10 beautiful tulips.

If you had to pick the one flower you loved the most, it would, of course be the tulip. They are some of the most stunning flowers.

DID YOU KNOW
That there are more than 150 types of tulips all over the world with more than 3000 variants?

The 2019 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show, "Flower Power"

America's leading floral and garden designers will create tropical jungles, temperate forests, native woodlands and arid landscapes, showcasing the astounding plants that thrive in each environment, from exquisite orchids and flowering vines to luminescent desert blooms.

The annual Flower Show is a top destination and “must experience” horticultural event, attracting 250,000 visitors annually to the Pennsylvania Convention Center, a showcase of excellence that dates back to 1829.

DISCOVER OUR BEAUTIFUL COTSWOLD GARDENS!

Set against the backdrop of the Cotswold Hills in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Sudeley Castle’s nine individual Cotswold gardens are world-renowned, providing variety and colour from spring through to autumn.

There are a number of gardens near Gloucester, but none so beautifully designed as Sudeley’s. Eminent landscape designers including Lanning Roper, Rosemary Verey, Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall, Charles Chesshire and, more recently, Sir Roddy Llewellyn have all been involved in the design and layout of the gardens, which are among the most popular gardens to visit in the UK.

Visit the most historic gardens in the Cotswolds

The centrepiece is the Queens Garden, so named because four of England’s queens – Anne Boleyn, Katherine Parr, Lady Jane Grey and Elizabeth I – once admired the hundreds of varieties of roses found in the garden.

St Mary’s Church, in which Katherine Parr is buried, is …

The Shanghai Flower Port turns into a veritable mini Holland every spring by way of their annual Tulip Viewing Festival that normally runs for around a month. On display are 500 different species of blooms, and 3.2 million buds that consists not only of tulips, but also hyacinths, anemones, roses, wisteria, and more. It’s a little removed from the city centre, but worth making a trip out there over the weekend to take in all the colors and greenery.

Traveller review:

Feast to eye with all colors of Tulips
It's worth visiting flower port, even for the high entrance ticket (100¥). Visited on A sunny day, all colours of tulips were glorious! It's a challenge to remember all tulip shades !! A very well maintained garden, feels like garden brought from Holland! Artificial mountain water falls adds to the beauty.

Endless fields of Canola flowers

Zhuanghang Town in Fengxian District holds some of the country’s prettiest canola fields. During the warm months of spring, 3,000 acres of land explode into a sea of gold, making for a very cheerful and picturesque backdrop. The town is also known for their honey pears and rice crop, making them something of an agricultural mecca.

The festival features more than 650,000 square meters of Canola flowers, rapeseed flowers, vast fields of pear blossoms and 3,000 cherry blossom trees all in full bloom.

Where: Zhuangliang Lu & Nanzhuang Lu, Pandian Village, Zhuanghang Town, Fengxian District 奉贤区庄行镇潘垫村庄良路`南庄路
When: March & April

Other notable viewing spots: Chongming Dongtan Wetlands Park, Chongming Yangtze Modern Agricultural Base