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Gardens and Parks in Europe
Austria
Mirabell Garden
5020 Salzburg
Tel: +43 662 80720
Email: post@stadt-salzburg.at
Web:stadt-salzburg.at
Just near the Mirabell Castle and
they are so beautiful that they
are often used as a backdrop for
films. The Gardens were opened
to the public by Emperor Franz
Joseph in 1854. Today they are a
horticultural masterpiece
Hellbrunn
5020 Salzburg
Tel +43 662 8203720
Email: info@hellbrunn.at
Web: www.hellbrunn.at
The Lustschloss (“pleasure
palace”) of Hellbrunn with its
spacious park and its unique
Wasserspiele (trick fountains).
Other features are a mechanical,
water-operated and music-playing
theatre built in 1750 showing
various professions at work, a
grotto and a crown being pushed
up and down by a jet of water –
breathtaking
Park at Schönbrunn
Palace
Vienna
Entrance at Hietzinger Tor
1130 Wien
www.bundesgaerten.at
The 160-hectare World Heritage
Garden, board the dieselpowered
panoramic railway (50
minutes)see statues, fountains
and splendid flower beds, the
Palm House from 1882, the
largest in Europe, to the Maze,
the Japanese Garden, or up the
hill to the Gloriette
Belgium
Le Parc des Topiaires
6940 B-Durbuy
Tel: +32(0)86/21.90.75
Fax : +32(0)86/21.90.76
Email: info@topiairesdurbuy.be
Web: www.topiairesdurbuy.be
With a unique collection of
sculpted box trees, it is the
largest topiary garden open to
the public. This very original
garden boasts more than 250
figures, some of which are more
than 120 years old.
Herba – Sana - The
Garden of Health
Hautes Fagnes
4750 Elsenborn (Buetgenbach)
Tel. : +32 (0) 80 44 00 56
Fax : +32 (0) 80 44 42 80
www.herba-sana.be
The garden opens the doors to
the magical world of herbal
medicine. On a 2 hectare terrain,
8000 m² have been laid-out to
gather about 200 medicinal plants
regrouped by theme or by usage.
Visitors see which part is used in
herbal medicine and its toxicity
degree.
The Gardens of the Van
Buuren Museum
1180 Brussels
Tel: + 0032 (0)2 343 48 51
Email: info@museumvanbuuren.
be
The garden includes the
“Picturesque Garden”, the
“Labyrinth” and the “Garden
of the Heart”. The Grande
Roseraie, a rose garden, is the
A fascination visit,
trick fountains
just one feature of
this amazing park.
www.hellbrunn.at/en
central element of the garden
of a big classicism, composed of
rectangular flowerbeds, bordered
by boxes. A jewel in the centre of
the City.
The Castle of Havré
Gardens
7021 Havre (Mons)
Tel:+32 (0) 65 87 25 35
Fax: +32 (0) 65 87 46 47
The entire castle is surrounded by
a moat. The estate is home to a
rose garden that was developed
in 2000. Over 15,000 rosebushes,
210 different varieties, planted
in original compositions, a garden
in which old and new roses rival
for visitors attention.
England
Herstmonceux Castle
Hailsham, East Sussex
BN27 1RN
Tel: 01323 833816
Web:www.herstmonceux-castle.
com
Herstmonceux is renowned for its
magnificent moated castle, set in
600 acres of beautiful parkland
and superb Elizabethan gardens.
The gardens and grounds embody
the history of medieval England
and the romance of renaissance
Europe
The Lost Gardens of
Heligan
Pentewan, St Austell,
Cornwall, PL26 6EN
Tel/textphone : +44 ( 0)1726
845100
Email: info@heligan.com
Web: www.heligan.com
‘Britain’s Finest Garden’ offers
200 acres for exploration
including Victorian Productive
Gardens and Pleasure Grounds,
a sub-tropical Jungle, ancient
woodland and farmland and
a pioneering Wildlife Project
providing a breadth of interest
around the year.
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Royal Botanic Kew
Gardens
Surrey TW9 3AB
Tel:+44 (0)208 332 5648 groups
Email: info@kew.org
Web: www.kew.org
London’s only 300 acre UNESCO
World Heritage Site. Enjoy the
seasons and explore glasshouses,
landscapes and 250 years of
history at the world’s most
famous garden. Climb to the
treetops, delve into rainforest or
discover more of Kew on a guided
tour.
Wakehurst
West Sussex RH17 6TN
Tel: info line: +44 (0)1444
894066
Email: wakehurst@kew.org
Web: www.kew.org
‘Sister’ to Kew Gardens. Visit
Wakehurst and explore 465
acres of country estate with
ornamental gardens, temperate
woodlands and an Elizabethan
Mansion. Join in our seasonal
walks and themed tours to
discover more.
Hidcote Manor Garden
Gloucestershire
Chipping Campden GL55 6LR
Tel: +44(0)1386 438333
Web: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/
hidcote
One of England’s great Arts and
Crafts gardens. A profusion of
colour contrasts with impeccably
manicured lawns, the garden
continues to influence garden
design today. From the formal
splendour of the White Garden
and Bathing Pool to the
informality and beauty of the Old
Garden.
Sissinghurst
Kent
Cranbrook, TN17 2AB
Tel: +44(0)1580 710700
Web: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/
sissinghurst
Once the home of Vita Sackville-
West, author, poet and gardener.
The impossibly romantic setting
- a ruined Elizabethan castle - is
hard to beat, and world-famous
set pieces such as the White
Garden and the swags of climbing
roses over the walls are magical.
Stourhead
Wiltshire
Mere, BA12 6QD
Tel: +44(0)1747 841152
Web:www.nationaltrust.org.uk/
stourhead/
A triumph of the 18th-century
English landscape movement.
Often compared, to the landscape
paintings of Claude Lorrain,
since there is a bridge, lake,
grottoes and classical temple in
the distance: a romantic vision of
antiquity
Levens Hall
Kendal
Cumbria, LA8 0PD
Tel: +44 (0)1539 560321
Email: houseopening@
levenshall.co.uk
Web www.levenshall.co.uk
It is the finest, oldest and most
extensive topiary garden in the
world. There are over 100 pieces.
Annually 20,000 flowers are
planted below the topiary. Also
wall borders, vegetable and herb
gardens, a rose garden, fountain
garden, fine lawns, wildflower
meadows, a willow labyrinth,
wild willow maze
Topiary at Levens Hall
Royal Horticultural
Society
RHS Harlow Carr: Harrogate
Tel +44(0)1423 565418
RHS Hyde Hall: Essex
Tel +44(0)1245 400256
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