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The 11 best gardens in the world to visit in 2024
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From an airport garden in Singapore to a perfumer’s paradise, a sea of bamboo to a local neighborhood gem in Sydney, these gardens hail from all corners of the world and have one thing in common: deep meaning to those who established them and those who visit them.
While travel allows us to experience the undeniable connection we have to each other, gardens offer us a connection to the world, they call us home, allow us to marvel, and give us the serenity we need and any adventure we may crave.
Stumbling upon one of these gardens while traveling can be an exciting discovery, but visiting them intentionally allows you to understand the deep heart of the location in which it exists. They are the city’s lungs, a region’s oxygen supply, a desert oasis, and the home of Indigenous people. Gardens offer us a whole new way to learn about the land to which we’ve traveled.
Selected from our new book, The Joy of Exploring Gardens, Here are some of the meaningful spaces you can encounter as you journey the world.
French artist Jacques Majorelle decided to create this unique walled garden in his newly adopted home of Marrakesh. The vibrantly colored garden was an oasis in the arid desert landscape. Majorelle drew inspiration from traditional Islamic gardens with their saturated color palette, shaded areas and cool water elements, like a long reflecting pond and bubbling fountain. The verdant gardens feature a bamboo forest, fan and date palms, and Monstera deliciosa that stand out against the cobalt blue Majorelle used as the estate’s signature color.
This sense of aliveness juxtaposed with the serene elements of the garden was immediately apparent to fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his business partner, who acquired the property in the 1980s after Majorelle’s death, ensuring Majorelle’s living canvas will be enjoyed for generations to come.
When to go: Come in April or May, when the bougainvillea and orange blossom flower, or in September, when the scent of jasmine fills the air. Avoid the heat of high summer (June to August) if possible.
On the 2.3-mile (3.7km) loop trail inside Koko Crater, you’ll find tropical colors, intense fragrances and bizarre shapes that invade and intrigue the senses, from yellow and pink plumeria to bat-pollinated African sausage trees and sprawling octopus cacti. The plant collections here take up 60 acres (24 hectares) of the volcanic crater, with the crater rim towering high all around. The relatively easy, family-friendly track climbs gently into, then around, the crater, beginning with a trail through the spectacular plumeria grove.
Plumeria (also known as frangipani) may not be native to Hawaii, but it is Hawaii that made this sweet-scented, delicate-looking flower its own by
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