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Public gardens
- Association of Garden Trusts -organization representing 32
County Gardens Trusts in England and Wales, engaged in conserving,
researching, documenting and caring for parks, gardens and designed
landscapes.
- Chaumont Festival -site of the famous international festival
-a great place for design ideas.
- Festival of Gardens -see the work of many famous designers
at Westonbirt
- Gardeners Atlas -over 4,500 gardens, nurseris and water
feature centres.
- Garden History Society -promotes the study of the history
of gardening, landscape gardening and horticulture, and the protection,
conservation and restoration of historic parks, gardens and designed
landscapes.
- Great British Gardens -guide to most of the great gardens, arranged
by region.
- Historic Gardens Foundation -non profit-making organisation
set up in 1995 to connect those concerned with the preservation,
restoration and management of historic parks and gardens.
- Information gardens -listing of gardens open to the public.
- National
Council for Conservation of Plants and Gardens -seeks to conserve, document,
promote and make available Britain and Ireland's great biodiversity
of garden plants for the benefit of horticulture, education and
science.
- National Trust -extensive website, including searchable
database and descriptions of Trust properties.
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- An English Country Garden -Mandy Alford's country garden
in Netherbury, Dorset.
- Bedgebury Pinetum has the finest collection of conifers
in the world, which nestles quietly among lakes and valleys in
the Kent countryside.
- Beechgrove
Garden -a three
acre garden in Aberdeen featured in the television programme
of the same name, presented by Jim McColl, Carole Baxter, Lesley
Watson and Carolyn Spray.
- Bodnant Garden -one of the most beautiful gardens in
the UK, spanning some 80 acres of land situated above the River
Conwy looking across the valley towards the Snowdonia range.
- Borde
Hill -garden
and park near Haywards Heath, established at the turn of the
century from the great plant collectors who travelled to the
Himalayas, China, Burma, Tasmania and the Andes..
- Bristol
Zoo Gardens -a
conservation education charity, aiming to conserve
wildlife and its habitats.
- Chatsworth House -home of the Duke of Devonshire -105 acre
garden where Joseph Paxton was head gardener for more than thirty
years and creator of the giant rock garden, the Emperor fountain
and famous glasshouses.
- Chelsea Physic Garden -founded in 1673, as the Apothecaries'
Garden, the garden has developed a major role in public education
focusing on the renewed interest in natural medicine.
- Dorothy Clive Garden -located in Market Drayton, Staffordshire,
features a superb woodland garden, an alpine scree, a damp garden
and spectacular summer flower borders.
- Eden
Project -the
extraordinary project with huge biodomes representing different
climates set in a disused clay pit in Cornwall.
- Exotic garden -Will Giles tropical garden in Norwich.
- Groombridge
Place -House
with 17th century gardens and enchanted forest near Royal Tunbridge
Wells, Kent.
- Hever
Castle & Gardens
-magnificent Italian Garden was designed by Joseph Cheal to display
William Waldorf Astor's collection of Italian
sculpture.
- Heligan -the Lost Gardens of Heligan
-Tim Smit's award winning restoration in Cornwall.
- Highland Highlights -gardens in northern Scotland.
- Leonardslee
Gardens -
- Museum of Garden History -based in London, this small
museum includes the Tradescant Garden -a replica 17th century
Knot Garden.
- National Botanic Garden of Wales -set in the former 18th century
regency
park of Middleton Hall in Carmarthenshire, the Garden of Wales
is the first national botanic garden to be created in the United
Kingdom for over 200 years.
- Ness Botanic Gardens -founded by Liverpool cotton merchant
Arthur Kilpin Bulley began to create a garden in 1898.
- National
Gardens Scheme
-A Charity that raises money for caring / nursing charities.
- Osbaston Kitchen Garden -visit the one-acre walled kitchen
garden where a range of vegetables, herbs, fruits and flowers
are grown using organic methods. Some fresh produce and refreshments
available on open days.
- Painshill
Park -created
by Hon Charles Hamilton between
1738 and 1773, Painshill is one of Europe's finest 18th century
landscape gardens.
- Renishaw
Hall & Gardens
-beautiful Italianate garden, park and lake were the creation
of the eccentric Sir George Sitwell, grandfather of the present
owner.
- Roche
Court -scuplture
park in the south of England, containing the New Art Centre -specialises
in work from post 1950 and is the sole representative of the
Estate of Barbara Hepworth.
- Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew
-visitor information and news.
- Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh -originally founded in the 17th
century as a 'Physic Garden', growing medicinal plants, now has
four sites in Edinburgh, Benmore, Logan and Dawyck.
- Sensory Garden -a photographic virtual guided tour of
a specially designed garden aimed at the local and worldwide
Multiple Sclerosis communities, people with other disability
or chronic illness, elderly people, their carers and people who
are interested in various aspects of Natural Health. A garden
designed specifically to be "Positive About Disabled People".
To stimulate the senses and provide a haven of peace, a place
to chill-out and unwind from the stress of modern living.
- Sir Harold Hillier Gardens & Arboretum -formerly known as the Hillier
Arboretum, these gardens in Hampshire hold a collection of 42,000
hardy trees and shrubs.
- West Dean Gardens -a classic nineteenth century
designed landscape set in the rolling South Downs near Chichester.
- Westonbirt Arboretum -18,000 trees on 600 acres with
one of the finest collections in the world.
- Yorkshire
Sculpture Park
-one of Europe's Leading open-air galleries, located at Bretton
near Wakefield, featuring work by many notable sculptors including
Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth.
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