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• Butchart Gardens
  800 Benvenuto Avenue, Brentwood Bay, BC V8M 1J8 Telephone: 866-652-4422 Email: email@butchartgardens.com 55 acres filled with 700 varieties of plants that bloom from March to October.
• Chelsea Physic Garden
  An independent charity committed to the conservation and demonstration of plants used by mankind.
  
  Address: 66 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London, SW3 4HS, United Kingdom
  Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7349 6458
  Email: enquiries@chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk
  Underground: The nearest tube station is Sloane Square on the District and Circle lines
  
  
  
• Desert Botanical Garden
  1201 N. Galvin Parkway Phoenix, AZ My favorite part of the gardens is the Sonoran Desert Nature Loop Trail.
• Gardens at Dumbarton Oaks
  1703 32nd Street, NW, Washington, DC Telephone: 202-339-6409 Email: BlazinaC@doaks.org In 1920, after a long and careful search, Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss found their ideal country house and garden within Washington, DC. They purchased a fifty-three-acre property, described as "an old-fashioned house standing in rather neglected grounds," at the highest point of Georgetown. Within a year the Blisses hired landscape gardener Beatrix Farrand to design the gardens. Working in happy and close collaboration for almost thirty years, Mildred Bliss and Beatrix Farrand planned every garden detail, each terrace, bench, urn, and border. Since that time, other architects working with Mildred Bliss, most notably Ruth Havey and Alden Hopkins, changed certain elements of the Farrand design
• Gardens of Versailles
  In 1661, Louis XIV commissioned André Le Nôtre with the design and laying out of the gardens of Versailles which, in his view, were just as important as the Château. The works were undertaken at the same time as those for the palace and took forty years to complete
• Kew Royal Botanic Gardens
  The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew was founded in 1759, and declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003. Alongside Kew Gardens in London, Kew has a second country garden based at Wakehurst which is the home of Kew's Millennium Seed Bank. As well as being one of London's top visitor attractions, Kew is also a world leader in plant science and conservation.
  
  Address: Kew Gardens Rd, Richmond. Surrey, Greater London, TW9 3AB, United Kingdom
  Telephone: +44 (0)20 8332 5000
  
  
  
• Master-Of-Nets Garden
  NO.11 Koujiatou Lane, Suzhou City,Jiangsu,ChinaTelephone: 86 512 65293190Email: office@szwsy.com The Master-Of-Nets Garden is one of the four famous gardens in Suzhou, which has also won the titles of world cultural heritage site, a scenic spot of national 4A level and historical and cultural relics under state protection.
• New York Botanical Garden
  2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY Telephone: 718.817.8700 As if 50 gardens and plant collections weren't enough, the Garden also has a wide variety of events happening every day.
• Queen Elizabeth Park
  Queen Elizabeth Park is the second most visited park in Vancouver and holds within its perimeters some of the most beautiful public gardens anywhere. Its recreational offerings are diverse ranging from sporty to horticultural and include golf, tennis, lawn bowling, disc golf, an extensive outdoor arboretum and the indoor Bloedel Floral Conservatory. The seasonally changing and beautifully planted Quarry Gardens astound residents and tourists alike as viewed from the park's upper reaches or from the bottom looking up. Expertly positioned, select ornamental trees and shrubs make this Vancouver's horticultural jewel located practically city-centre.
• Singapore Botanic Garden
  Considered to be one of the world's prettiest gardens. 1 Cluny Road, Singapore 259569 Telephone:(65) 6471 7138 Email: NPARKS_SBG_Visitor_Services@NPARKS.GOV.SG The Gardens at its present site was founded in 1859 by an Agri-Horticultural Society. Planned as a leisure garden and ornamental park, the Society organised flower shows and horticultural fetes. In 1874, the Society handed over management and maintenance of the site to the government. The scientific mission of the Gardens evolved when the colonial government assumed management and deployed Kew-trained botanists and horticulturists to administer the Gardens.
• Soekershof
  Private Mazes and Botanical Gardens in South Africa. Soekershof is an interactive and whimsical exploration of mazes and gardens covering 10 hectares in Klaas Voogds West; 10 kilometres East of Robertson in the Western Cape, South Africa offering a place of peace, serenity, and potentially finding solutions to life's quandaries in one of the world's largest and most unusual mazes and gardens dedicated solely to the preservation, culture, and display of cacti and other succulent plants.
• Stourhead
  Stourton, Warminster, Wiltshire BA12 6QD, United Kingdom Telephone: 01747 841152 Email: stourhead@nationaltrust.org.uk Palladian mansion and world-famous landscape garden. Uncover the fascinating history of the Hoare family at Stourhead house, a majestic Palladian mansion home to a unique Regency library and fabulous collections of Chippendale furniture and paintings, set amid delightful lawns and parkland. Stourhead is at the heart of a 1,072-hectare (2,650-acre) estate where chalk downs, ancient woods and farmland are managed for nature conservation.
• The Royal Parks
  Information about Hyde Park, Richmond Park, The Regent's Park, Kensington Gardens, Greenwich Park, St James's Park, Bushy Park, Green Park and Brompton Cemetery
• Villa & Jardins Ephrussi de Rothschild
  1 Avenue Ephrussi de Rothschild, 06230 Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France Telephone: 04 93 01 33 09 Email: message@villa-ephrussi.com A Venice-style villa surrounded by breathtaking gardens built by Béatrice Éphrussi, a Rothschild baroness in the early 1900s. Seven themed gardens overlooking the sea.
• Villa d'Este
  Piazza Trento, 5 - 00019 Tivoli (Rome) - Italy Telephone: +39 0412719036 Email: villadestetivoli@teleart.org Villa d’Este, masterpiece of the Italian Garden, is included in the UNESCO world heritage list. With its impressive concentration of fountains, nymphs, grottoes, plays of water, and music, it constitutes a much-copied model for European gardens in the mannerist and baroque styles.

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.....Explore. Dream. Discover. — Mark Twain

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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair — Kahlil Gibran

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move — Robert Louis Stevenson

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Open my heart and you will see, graved inside of it, Italy. — Robert Browning