Experience
Gardens & Botanical
A garden is the one attraction with a fixed season — the same beds are a different place in April and in August, and some close entirely in winter. Decide what you want in bloom, then let that set the month.
Where to stay →Best places to stay for gardens & botanical
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Almaty
Almaty · KazakhstanThe snow-capped Trans-Ili Alatau rises south of Almaty, the largest city of Kazakhstan, known for the Central State Museum of Kazakhstan.
Medellín
Departamento de Antioquia · ColombiaMedellín fills the Aburrá Valley in the Andes Mountains, the second-largest city in Colombia and the capital of Antioquia.
Sapporo
Hokkaido · JapanSnow banks the grid boulevards of Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido on the fan of the Toyohira River, known for the Sapporo Clock Tower and the Sapporo…
Pasadena
California · United StatesCraftsman bungalows shade the streets of Pasadena, a city in the San Gabriel Valley of California, known for The Huntington and the Norton Simon Museum.
Tver
Tver Oblast · RussiaWhere the Tvertsa joins the Volga, Tver spreads neoclassical quays northwest of Moscow, once the seat of a principality that rivalled the capital.
Angers
Pays de la Loire · FranceAngers is a city in Pays de la Loire, the old capital of Anjou and prefecture of Maine-et-Loire, known for Angers Cathedral and its museums.
Leiden
Provincie Zuid-Holland · NetherlandsThe Oude Rijn threads the old centre of Leiden, a canal town in Zuid-Holland north of The Hague, known for its university and the Pieterskerk.
Tartu
Tartumaa · EstoniaThe Emajõgi slides through the heart of Tartu, a university city in Tartumaa and the oldest town in the Baltics, southeast of Tallinn.
La Plata
Buenos Aires · ArgentinaWide diagonals cut across a perfect grid at La Plata, the capital of Buenos Aires province, known for its Neo-Gothic Cathedral and the museums of the UNLP.
Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
Kärnten · AustriaKlagenfurt am Wörthersee is the capital and largest city of the Austrian state of Carinthia.
Makati City
National Capital Region · PhilippinesMakati is the leading centre for finance, commerce and diplomacy in the Philippines, and it carries the country's largest skyline.
Helsingborg
Skåne County · SwedenHelsingborg is a port city in the western part of Skåne County, facing Denmark across the narrowest neck of the Öresund in south-western Sweden.59 more Gardens & Botanical destinations, by country
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Common questions
Are gardens worth visiting outside the flowering season?
Often, for different reasons. Structure shows in winter, when hedging, water and the bones of the design appear once the planting dies back, and glasshouses run all year. A garden built around one flowering month is honest about it; the rest of the year is a walk.