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Alnwick Garden Project, a modern garden by the Duchess of Northumberland.
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American gardens

American Garden Museum
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Busch Gardens, Tampa, Florida.
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Gardens in the U.S.A., the landscape garden guide. Garden Visit.com
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Smithsonian Archives of American Gardens (AAG),
managed by the Smithsonian's Horticulture Services Division, offers landscape designers, historians, preservationists, and garden enthusiasts access to a collection of approximately 60,000 photographic images and records that document historic and contemporary gardens throughout the United States.
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U.S.A. Gardens listed by State

Australian Garden History Society
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Australian gardens visitor's guide.
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Better Homes and Gardens Australia magazine.
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Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne

Austrian Gardens to Visit
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Imperial Austrian palaces and gardens.
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Mirabell Gardens, Saltzburg.

Backyard Gardener
A one stop informational site to help people understand their gardening needs. Backyard Gardener provides gardening plans and plant lists to enhance your gardening knowledge.
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Bamboo. International Network for Bamboo and Rattan
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Baroque gardens.
Information, with links to High Baroque garden websites. Gardenvisit.com
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Belgium and Europe. Garden Art and Gardening
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Better Homes and Gardens
An online magazine.
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Botanical gardens

Australian National Botanic Gardens
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Barcelona Botanical Gardens/Jardí Botànic de Barcelona
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Chelsea Physic Garden
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New York Botanical Garden
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Open Directory Project web directory of botanical gardens and arboreta.
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London.
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is one of the world's leading botanic gardens.
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The United States Botanic Garden

Castle Howard, Yorkshire, England.
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Chinese gardens

Chinese Gardens. Traditional Chinese gardens.
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Photos of Chinese gardens of Yangzhou and Suzhou.
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The Classical Chinese Garden Society Homepage

Directories, guides

Garden and gardening resources from WWW Virtual Library.
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Garden Visit and Travel Guide
An international garden directory. British gardens, American gardens, European gardens, garden style diagrams, garden designers index.
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The Garden Visit and Travel Guide
Places of interest to gardeners: properties open to the public, historic estates, botanic collections, websites, place and name indexes, styles, maps.

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English gardens
See also: Garden history

Alnwick Garden Project, a modern garden by the Duchess of Northumberland.
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English Gardens
An internet resource page. Search by theme.
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Blogs and magazines

The Garden Lady

Visit public and private gardens especially ones in your area to see what they grow.
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My English Country Garden (Protected Blog)
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The English Garden
A website from the leading UK gardening magazine, full of expert design tips, garden photography from the experts.

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BBC gardening section.
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British (U.K.) private gardens,
a web directory from The Open Directory Project.
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Capability Brown
The life and works of England's greatest landscape gardener and his influence on the Royal Palaces and Stately Homes of the Unidted Kingdom.
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Country Life Online, UK.

Country Life garden and gardening guide.
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Country Life list of best websites for the history of English gardens.
Tim Richardson picks out some of the best websites for admirers of the English country garden.

Crocus
One of the longest surviving online garden centres.
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The English garden, a history.
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Garden design in the British Isles since 1650.
Articles, gardening / gardening web links.
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English gardens to visit.
This is an alphabetical list of hundreds of English gardens to visit, which include grand old English gardens as well as English country gardens. From Garden Tools for all Seasons.
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English  Landscape Gardens in the 1700s: The History of English Gardens
Suite 101
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Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, North Yorkshire.
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Gertrude Jekyll website.
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Hampton Court, Herefordshire, UK.
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Heligan Gardens
Restoration of the lost gardens of Heligan, Cornall, England.
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Hidcote Manor Garden
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Historic Gardens Foundation, UK.
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History of Gardens
The Garden History Society, UK.
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The National Gardens Scheme, UK.
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National Trust historic gardens and parks open to the public.
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London.
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The Royal Horticultural Society
Trails, an advice service and school facilities.
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RHS Gardening Wisley, Surrey.
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Sissinghurst Castle Garden
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Society for Garden Designers
Lists qualified or experienced designers by geographical area.
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Stowe Landscape Gardens
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ThinkinGardens
The ThinkinGardens Group has been set up, with the support of the Royal Horticultural Society, in its role as a learned society, to encourage and develop a broader, more enquiring attitude to gardens. This will encompass the aesthetic of gardens, the philosophy of gardens, and what gardens mean or can offer. The Group’s work is aimed at stimulating both gardeners and non-gardeners alike.

Forums

French gardens

French Gardens and gardening
A garden guide with descriptions of the many gardens open to the public in France.
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Comité des Parcs et Jardins de France
Le site du Comité des Parcs et Jardins de France qui a pour vocation de présenter tous les Parcs et Jardins de France.
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L'Atelier Vert. Everything French Gardening
French garden supplies and accoutrements, including books. Articles on plants, techniques, and French gardens.
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17th Century French Gardens
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Sisley Garden Tours in France

Garden and gardening resources from WWW Virtual Library.
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Garden Visit and Travel Guide
An international garden directory. British gardens, American gardens, European gardens, garden style diagrams, garden designers index.
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Gardening

GardenWeb Italia. Italian gardens.
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Garden and gardening links from WWW Virtual Library.
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The Garden Picture Library
An archive of garden pictures.
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GardenWeb Europe. A directory of European gardens.
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German gardens

Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm, also known as the English Grounds of Wörlitz,
is one of the first and largest English parks in Germany and Europe. Wikipedia

Official site of the Dessau-Woerlitz Garden Realm
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Official site of the Wörlitz Park

Gardens to Visit in Germany
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Parks and gardens of Germany. German tourism website.
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Sanssoucci palace, Potsdam.
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Schloss Augustusburg
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Wurzburg Rococo Gardens

Gertrude Jekyll website.
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Glossary of botanical terms

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Hampton Court, Herefordshire, UK.
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Heligan Gardens
Restoration of the lost gardens of Heligan, Cornwall, England.
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History of Gardens

The Biodiversity Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of 12 natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.
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Dutch Baroque Gardens
The British Library. These views of Dutch country houses and gardens form three volumes of an atlas devoted to the Netherlands. It was put together between 1718 and 1748 from the best available maps, views, portraits and plans by a wealthy Amsterdam businessman and landowner, Christoffel Beudeker (1675-1756).
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Romantic Gardens: Nature, Art, and Landscape Design,
The Morgan Library and Museum. Scenic vistas, winding paths, bucolic meadows, and rustic retreats suitable for solitary contemplation are just a few of the alluring naturalistic features of gardens created in the Romantic spirit.
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History of Gardens. The Garden History Society, UK.
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History of Gardening, Wikipedia entries.
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Historic Parks, Stately Homes and Gardens Database, UK.
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Historic Gardens Foundation, UK.
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Humphrey Repton's Red Books. The Morgan Library & Museum Online Exhibitions
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The Museum of Garden History, London.
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Garden History Style Guide (gardenvisit.com)
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Garden Design (Suite101.com)
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The BBC Online Gardening Site
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Parks and Gardens of France
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The Enchanted Gardens of the Renaissance
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Sayes Court
Plan of Sayes Court House and Garden, by John Evelyn. The British Library
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London's Lost Garden
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Stowe Landscape Gardens
A website with a virtual tour of the garden that allows you to move around on a map in one frame while seeing photographs of your virtual location in another.
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Gardens for Small Country Houses, by Gertrude Jekyll & Lawrence Weaver.
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Some English Gardens; after drawings by George S. Elgood; with notes by Gertrude Jekyll.

Indian gardens

Indian Gardens
(with selected garden history keydates and links to information for visitors).

GardenWeb Italia
Italian gardens.
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Garden tours of Italy.
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Boboli Gardens

Boboli Gardens
Wikipedia entry.
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Boboli Garden
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360 degree virtual tour of Boboli Gardens

The Botanical Garden of Padua/Orto botanico di Padova