Partners: Public Garden

Le Sitio Roberto Burle Marx

Le Sitio Roberto Burle Marx

Located in Barra de Guaratiba, a neighborhood in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro, the property where Burle Marx lived and produced in the last twenty years of his life was – and continues to be – a large experimentation laboratory: more than 3,500 species of tropical plants and subtropical, organized in nurseries and gardens, coexist in harmony with the native vegetation in an area of ​​405 thousand square meters, which includes several buildings, lakes, gardens, art collections and a vast library.

The Secret Garden Médina Marrakech

The Secret Garden Médina Marrakech

Le Jardin Secret is opening its doors to the public for the first time in its history. The origins of the complex date back to the Saadian Dynasty, more than four hundred years ago. Rebuilt in the mid-Nineteenth century at the behest of an influential kaid of the Atlas Mountains, Le Jardin Secret has been the home of some of Morocco and Marrakech’s most important political figures. Today you are able to fully appreciate it, thanks to the recent renovation; Le Jardin Secret is part of the great tradition of stately Arab-Andalusian and Moroccan palaces. As a result visitors can discover its gardens and buildings, which are outstanding examples of Islamic art and architecture.

Jardin Majorelle

Jardin Majorelle

The Majorelle Garden is a one-hectare botanical garden and artist’s landscape garden in Marrakech, Morocco. It was created by the French Orientalist artist Jacques Majorelle over almost forty years, starting in 1923, and features a Cubist villa designed by the French architect, Paul Sinoir in the 1930s

Billabong Falls

Billabong Falls

Billabong Falls once home to International award winning landscape designer Phillip Johnson is now open as a luxurious bed and breakfast in the heart of the Dandenong Ranges. Stay amongst the majestic Mountain Ash and lush natural bushland in the stunning Yarra Valley. Escape to peace, quiet and reconnect with nature, listen to tumbling waterfalls, swim in the natural billabong or just sit and drink in the surrounds and expansive views.

Jardin de Balata

Jardin de Balata

All paradises are gardens and it is no coincidence that during the visit to the Garden of Balata, the magic of the place gives visitors amazing feelings. It was in 1982 that Jean-Philippe Thoze, horticulturist, landscaper and artist at heart, retraced the steps of his childhood in the Creole house of his grandparents. From there, will be born a passion for botany which will take him to the four corners of the world. The garden, organized around the family home with typical Creole architecture, is the result of a perfect alchemy between a return to basics and an atypical artist. 

Monteverde Butterfly Gardens

Monteverde Butterfly Gardens

Here at the Monteverde Butterfly Gardens, we have been teaching people about Costa Rica’s insects and arachnids for over 30 years. We have made it our mission to change the way people think about these small, misunderstood creatures. This may seem like a daunting task, but our bugs and tour guides can win over even the most skeptical visitor!  With up to 30 species of butterfly in 4 different habitats, over 20 species of live insects and arachnids in our nature center, an active leaf-cutter ant colony and the best guides in the business, we truly have something for everyone!

Devon House

Devon House

The Devon House mansion is a beautiful blend of Caribbean and Georgian architecture, furnished with an expertly curated collection of Jamaican, English and French antique pieces and reproductions.  The Mansion overlooks a vast expanse of perfectly manicured and lush, green lawns. Stiebel’s legacy lives on with the beautifully maintained Devon House, which was declared a national monument in 1990 by the Jamaica National Heritage Trust.

Edward James Sculpture Garden, Las Pozas

Edward James Sculpture Garden, Las Pozas

The Edward James Sculpture Garden, Las Pozas was created by Edward Frank Willis James, an eccentric British poet, artist and patron of the Surrealist movement. James created a fusion between the organic and the artificial, between the jungle and the concrete, which merges the two worlds into one. The total area of ​​the Garden is 37 hectares dedicated to ecological conservation, of these 9 hectares make up the sculpture garden, where you can admire more than 28 structures and sculptures. In 2007 the Fundación Pedro y Elena Hernández, AC, acquired Las Pozas with the purpose of preserving the sculptures and conserving the ecosystem.

Le Volksgarten

Le Volksgarten

Think roses. Are you thinking of roses? Good. Now think of even more roses.

Huge beds of tiered roses fill the sides of the Rose Garden: tall bushes at the back and smaller standards and bushes near the front. And each a different variety.

The flowers form a kaleidoscope of colour in the late spring and summer. And each rosebush carries a personal dedication to a lover, family member or similar.

Les Jardins de Hellbrunn (Schloss Hellbrunn Garten)

Les Jardins de Hellbrunn (Schloss Hellbrunn Garten)

You never know exactly what to expect in Hellbrunn. But one thing is certain: it never gets boring! Water machines, grottos and insidious spray fountains have been making faces wet and, above all, smiling for over 400 years. Explore Hellbrunn and embark on an entertaining journey through time to the era of Prince Archbishop Markus Sittikus. He built Hellbrunn as a place for entertainment and pleasure. And it has not changed until today.

Augarten Botanical Garden

Augarten Botanical Garden

The Augarten is a 52.2 ha public garden in the 2 nd district of the city and which houses the oldest Baroque botanical garden in Vienna. This French-style garden also offers large beds of magnificent flowers, large shaded paths of chestnut trees, elms, lime trees, ash trees and maples. However, as with almost all of the city’s public parks, access to the park is impossible at night, as the five park gates are closed. (from dusk to early morning – the times, which vary according to the season, are indicated on a metal panel in front of each of the doors.)

Schoenbrunn Palace Gardens

Schoenbrunn Palace Gardens

The park at Schönbrunn Palace was opened to the public around 1779 and since then has provided a popular recreational amenity for the Viennese population as well as being a focus of great cultural and historical interest for international visitors. Extending for 1.2 km from east to west and approximately one kilometre from north to south, it was placed together with the palace on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1996.

Mainau Island Gardens

Mainau Island Gardens

Lush blooms all year round, a park with trees over 150 years old, the baroque splendor of the castle complex and church, plus the Mediterranean character – that is Mainau, the flower island in Lake Constance. Today Bettina Countess Bernadotte and Björn Count Bernadotte are at the helm of the company. The fourth Bernadotte generation following Count Lennart strives to continue the well-founded philosophy that has been developed since 1932 and to maintain an oasis of natural beauty, harmony and relaxation for visitors from all over the world, indeed to create it again and again. Forgetting the stress of everyday life and the over-engineered age for a few hours and finding relaxation in the “deceleration” should be the benefit for the Mainau guests when they visit the flower island in Lake Constance, which is favored by the climate and is unique in the world. 

Les Jardins du château de Schwetzingen

Les Jardins du château de Schwetzingen

The park of Schwetzingen Castle is a unique cultural monument in Europe: more than 100 sculptures adorn the park, which is both magnificent and surprising. Picturesque works of art lead visitors into distant and foreign worlds. The Temple of Apollo features the Greek god of light and the arts playing the lyre in a circular temple. Also worth seeing: the thermal baths, a small building for relaxation with a garden, designed on the plan of an Italian villa. The park’s Turkish garden houses the Nicholas de Pigage mosque, the largest building of its type in a German park. This late-baroque mosque, with many oriental elements, however, played a purely decorative and not religious role.

Sanssouci Park

Sanssouci Park

Visitors can wander through the changing styles of exquisite garden art. The aesthetics and philosophy of the former residents of these palace complexes can be discovered in the perfectly formed garden areas, architecture, water features or in the more than 1,000 sculptures. The approximately 300-hectare Sanssouci Park stretches more than two kilometers from east to west. You should allow time for a detailed tour. Almost 60 gardeners lovingly tend beds, hedges, trees and extensive meadows. The magnificent parterre at the foot of Sanssouci Palace is decorated twice a year with over 230,000 plants based on historical models.

Bucaco National Forest

Bucaco National Forest

The National Forest of Bussaco is a heritage of incalculable value, unique in Portugal and in the world. It currently occupies 105 hectares and has one of the best dendrological collections in Europe, with around 250 species of trees and shrubs with notable specimens. It is one of the richest national forests in natural, architectural and cultural heritage, and can be divided into three landscape units: Arboretum, Gardens and Vale dos Fetos and Relic Forest. Classified as a Property of Public Interest, the monumental complex of Bussaco mobilizes an exceptional heritage wealth. In addition to the central nucleus formed by the Palace Hotel do Bussaco and the Convent of Santa Cruz, the hermitages, the chapels of devotion and the Steps that make up the Via Sacra, the Fence with the Doors, the Military Museum and the commemorative monument of the Batalha do Bussaco, the crosses, the fountains (the Fonte Fria with its monumental staircase stands out) and the cisterns, the viewpoints (the one at Cruz Alta offers a privileged view over the entire region between Coimbra and Serra do Caramulo) or the forest houses.

Les Jardins du palais du Marquis de Fronteira (Palace of the Marquises of Fronteira)

Les Jardins du palais du Marquis de Fronteira (Palace of the Marquises of Fronteira)

The Foundation of the Houses of Fonteira and Alorna, was established by Dom Fernando Mascarenhas (1945-2014), who was the representative of three important noble Houses (Fronteira, Alorna e Távora). Dom Fernando Mascarenhas inherited the Condado of Torre and the Fronteira Palace from a great-great Aunt. Since he had no children, he decided to use this unique opportunity to reinforce the connection between his heritage and the family who is historically linked to it, while keeping in mind the public good.

Lanzarote Cactus Garden

Lanzarote Cactus Garden

Located in Guatiza, municipality of Teguise, El Jardín de Cactus is the last great work of César Manrique in Lanzarote , a fascinating creation that houses around 4,500 specimens of cacti of some 500 species from the five continents. The artist chose an old rofera (canteen, for the Canaries) used as a dump in an agricultural area with extensive prickly pear plantations dedicated to the cultivation of cochineal, thus assuming the rehabilitation of an area of ​​great scenic value on the island in a state of abandonment. After 20 years of creation, the work gives life to an architecture full of decorative and sculptural elements that integrate with the environment, further enhancing its natural beauty. The presence of volcanic stone and basaltic monoliths turned into sculptures stands out, resulting from the time when earth was extracted; but it is the liveliness and exoticism of the cactus that intoxicates the visitor in an authentic poetic setting of shapes, textures and colors.

Pazo de Oca

Pazo de Oca

The Ducal House of Medinaceli Foundation is a private cultural institution established on the initiative of Her Grace Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba y Fernández de Henestrosa, the Duchess of Medinaceli, with the aim of conserving, restoring, reintegrating, studying, promoting and disseminating the historic assets, both tangible (immovable, movable and documentary) and intangible (traditions, cults, rituals.), that have come to be linked to the House over time. Initially endowed with the founder’ s historic heritage-which was donated at the time of its establishment-throughout its over twenty-five years of existence it has grown both through the acquisition of property with historical ties to the House of Medinaceli and through mergers with other foundations of which the Ducal House held the trusteeship. The Foundation currently manages historic and artistic property scattered across nearly all the Spanish regions.