What is your favorite garden?

Olive.

I could never pick just one garden but Giverny in France is quite glorious. Monet attributed much of his artistic inspiration to it.

Another favourite is the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. I’m from rural Canada originally and seeing cacti and desert plants and flowers is always so novel and exciting for me.

yes, MARY!

R3, lovely!

R3 (Mary!), you should visit the Majorelle garden in Marrakech if you ever get the chance. It's stunning and riddled with gay history.

Villa d'Este, Jardin du Luxembourg, Belvedere, Jardin Exotique de Monaco, Stourhead, El Palmeral, Real Alcazar, Alhambra, Koishikawa Korakuen

Shalimar Bagh, India.

Longwood Gardens near Philadelphia

I've never been but the gardens at Kykuit, the Rockefeller estate north of NYC, look quite nice.

More Kykuit.

Butchart Gardens in Victoria, BC.

Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage in Dungeness

R11 what are all those black cones?

R13, I believe those are lights.

Indeed, they're lights.

A garden with tea and butterflies

I used to love Hodges Gardens in Louisiana but is gone with the wind.

Tyler, Texas rose garden is really intense. Longwood Gardens are best for the architecture Chicago Botanic Gardens for the clever use of hills in a genuinely flat landscape Montreal botanic garden for a romantic tryst I had there. Seoul in future will have an outstanding garden.

But I have to say my fave at the present time would be the adjacent Allerton-MacBryde National Tropical Botanjic Gardens on Kauai.

I also think beautiful golf courses should count as gardens. They are symbolic and even allegorical versions of nature within nature, in essence almost the same thing as a Japanese garden.

No they're not.

The correct answer:

The one I’m supposed to only go once around

Foster Botanical Garden

Just outside of downtown Honolulu and an easy bus ride from Waikiki.

I liked walking about this garden when I visited France:

Easy. I visit them every few weeks at least. The gardens of the Alcazar de Sevilla.

gorgeous op!

An empty one

The "Wilhelma" in Stuttgart (a Zoo and a botanical garden) , and especially the water lilies.

Thank you for the thread, OP. It is always nice to learn about new gardens to visit. I visited Chanticleer gardens outside of Philadelphia for the first time the year. I was particularly impressed by the potted plantings on the patio with many innovative combinations.

To nyonethat is interested i would recommend a membership to the Garden Conservancy

You can visit many interesting private gardens at the Garden Conservancy Open Days.

Old Westbury Gardens - not one of the world's great public gardens but worth a look if you're out on Long Island.

I do like the mansion at Old Westbury Gardens even though it's fairly empty inside.

Much more than just cherry blossoms

Hoe.

R33, gorgeous.

Japanese Tea Garden, San Francisco

New York Botanical Garden in The Bronx, a nice break from the crowds and hustle and bustle of Manhattan.

The 45 hectar Mainau Island lies just off the shores of Lake Constance the far south-west of Germany, close to Switzerland and Austria. The over 150 year old Arboretum with giant sequoias welcomes you to relax and enjoy nature seasons. Around a million tulips, rhododendrons, scented roses, perennials and colourful dahlias bloom in the park and gardens. Palms and citrus plants lend a Mediterranean flair to the island in summer. The Teutonic castle completed in 1746 and the castle church St. Marien are architectural highlights of the Baroque era and stand in close proximity to 15 metre tall palm trees. Not only nature and garden lovers and relaxation seekers come to the island but also many families. Children can play at inspiring adventure playgrounds.

Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park -- though, to be fair, it's the sculptures amidst the gardens that make it special.

The Garden of Allah

Huntington Library

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

My property has a rose garden with a patio near the house. I like to take my morning coffee down there on summer mornings and just drink in nature and my beautiful rose bushes.

Sissinghurst Castle Garden in Kent, created by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson

Good suggestion, R44. That garden is famous. I would love to go one day.

Another vote for the Montreal Botanical Garden.

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

Keukenhof near Amsterdam (only open March-May) for thousands upon thousands of tulips.

I haven't been to the Gibbs Gardens but they look like they are aimed at lowbrow taste

There are also the Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch!

Colombia is the flower capital of the world so probably someplace there

Keukenhof

The Rose Garden at the White House. Oh, wait.

R48 is that owned and operated by the Marla Gibbs estate?

[quote][R48] is that owned and operated by the Marla Gibbs estate?

No, it's owned by MARLA GIBBS!

[quote] What is your favorite garden?

Sound... and Savage...

Covent Garden

OP Puerto Vallarta Botanical Gardens is nonpareil. Founded and created my an old friend of mine. He always had a magical touch for flora and haute cusine. The restaurant above the river surrounded by hummingbirds is sublime. Truly his masterpiece. Bravo amico vechico Bobby.

Caher Bridge Garden Co Clare.

Set in the middle of the Burren.

Bibighar Gardens

The rose one I never promised you.

It's a secret.

The poppy fields outside the Emerald City.

[quote] The poppy fields outside the Emerald City.

That's no garden. It's a vast commercial operation used in Oz's opium industry. Most of the citizens are hooked on heroin.

Allerton Garden in Hawaii. It was created by a gay couple!

R63 - Indeed, the profits from trafficking heroin allows Oz and the Munchkins to fuel their war against Terror against the Wicked Witch of the West.

I used to shit in my neighbors garden just to piss him off. He spent way too much time in it which.came up to my property line.

Brooklyn Botanical was disappointing. I'm surprised no one has mentioned Kew Gardens or the National Arboretum. The Capitol Botanical Garden in DC also is nice.

How does the Bronx garden compare to the Brooklyn garden?

Bronx is bigger. Brooklyn, while smaller, is very well curated and quite lovely.

Their bonsai museum is worth the price of admission all by itself.

It’s a secret.

R68 NYBG in the Bronx is a fantastic place to visit.

Hunan Garden on 19th and 8th Avenue. General Tso to die for.

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

R73, are you also R46?

Nasty 8th Avenue….the only good restaurant on that stretch is Rangoon.

No, R74

Great minds think alike

I like the "Once Around the Garden" salad bar.

R77, are you also R22?

R78, are you also R74?

[quote] R78, are you also R74?

Why, yes. Yes I am.

R75: Haven't thought about Rangoon in ages.

Another favorite garden is the bush above and surrounding a man's bait and tackle. I particularly love making my way down his treasure trail with kisses, my fingers, or my tongue. It is great to take in the sweet smell of his full bush and the creepers that often cover his nuts. Oftentimes his trail continues behind his nuts (or sweet cherries) to his Gates of paradise. And exploring that cave that awaits me with my tongue, fingers, and cock is ever so delightful. I end up slamming my own bushy garden against the Rocks of Gibraltar that lead to the entrance to that cave.

I shit in your garden because you spent 12 hrs a day in it staring at me through my patio door.

Oh yeah, R83? Guess what. I'm getting a motion sensor and a floodlight.

R84, they don’t make a floodlight wide enough to capture all of R83’s girth.

Lol R85.