Gardens of the World offers visitors a memorable and varied experience of international garden design from different ages and regions. Traditions going back thousands of years encounter contemporary landscape design from five continents here. Whether Oriental, Asian, Australian, South American, African or European, the garden is a place of peace, beauty and happiness in all…
Located near Cottbus, Branitz Park and Palace is the masterpiece and late creation of the eccentric garden designer Hermann Fürst von Pückler-Muskau (1785-1871). Gently curved earth formations, elegantly shaped lakes and stretches of water and perfectly designed compositions of trees reveal Branitz today to be the pinnacle of landscape gardening development, rightly giving it the…
Parco Giardino Sigurtà is a green treasury close to Lake Garda and just a few kilometres from the cities of Verona and Mantua. The park sits astride two hills and is home to many points of interest. The seasonal flowering, such as that known as “Tulipanomania”, a spectacle of over a million of tulips, 30,000…
Our EGHN partners in the Russian Museum / Summer Garden in St. Petersburg had the idea and the resources for an outdoor exhibition with photos of selected partner gardens of the EGHN and finalists of the European Garden Prize. After the long Russian winter, the exhibition “Heritage in Bloom” was opened on June 21st. At…
Giardino di Ninfa (Italy) 2nd Prize The town of Ninfa has a Roman origin and was built close to a spring. Of the abandoned medieval town remained a double wall and the ruins of a castle, churches, municipal buildings and private dwellings. Gelasio Caetani and his English mother, in the 1920s, started the creation of…
Broughton Grange (United Kingdom) 1st Prize The gardens of Broughton Grange are beautifully set in 350 acres of parkland, farmland and open meadow, with planting that owes its origins to the Victorian era. The gardens include the Knot Garden, the Long Borders, the Yew Terrace and others. The recent gardens’ development started in the late…
Kasteeltuinen Arcen 2nd Prize Arcen Castle dates from the 17th century. The original garden had a division of sixteen rectangles. Ten of these areas, each with a different theme, were reinstated. The rosarium, surrounded by a pergola, includes more than 250 species and many perennials and shrubs. There is also a lovely woodland garden with…
Adare Manor (Ireland) 2nd Prize The natural, built and heritage assets of Adare Manor Estate provide several contrasting landscape typologies. Recent developments significantly improved the character and restored key views. The arboretum as a heritage feature has been supplemented with new trees. The ‘white’ Ballroom Garden is bursting with flowering plants set amongst an evergreen…
Image by kind permission ©John Sturrock Pancras Square (United Kingdom) 2nd Prize Close to London’s St Pancras Station, Pancras Square forms part of the 72-acre King’s Cross redevelopment with over 40% of public open space. Pancras Square, a 4.000 sqm ‘outdoor room’, has a strong sense of place inspired by the atmosphere of a continental…
Bartokpark (The Netherlands) 2nd Prize In March 2012, after the developments of the BK40 complex and the demolition of the Bartok Hall some years before, this square in Arnhem was a thorn in the eyes of entrepreneurs and local residents. The Departement Tijdelijke Ordening (DTO), however, together with BUROHARRO designed the Bartokpark, a mini piece…