Northern Europe
| # | Country | Garden | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 65. | UK | Rousham Park, Oxfordshire | Perhaps the first English landscape garden, created by William Kent in the early 18th century. Website |
| 66. | UK | Sissinghurst Castle, Kent | Influential English garden created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson; owned by the National Trust since 1967. Website |
| 67. | France | Chateau Villandry, The Loire Valley | Acres of parterre and box hedge, recreated in the 20th century. Website |
| 68. | France | Claude Monet's Garden, Giverny | Obsessively painted by Monet; now receiving over half a million visitors each year. Website |
| 69. | Belgium | Jacques Wirtz's Garden, Schoten, Antwerp | The private garden of Belgian landscape artist Jacques Wirtz, including his trademark "cloud" box hedges. Website |
| 70. | Netherlands | Het Loo Palace, Apeldoorn | The Baroque Dutch garden of William and Mary, originally designed by Claude Desgotz in the 1680s but replaced by an English landscape garden in the 18th century; restored from 1970 to 1984 to its appearance in 1700. Website |
| 71. | Netherlands | The Boon Family Garden, Oostzaan, Amsterdam | An example of a small modern domestic garden, designed by Piet Oudolf for Dutch architect Piet Boon. |
| 72. | Norway | The Arctic Alpine Botanic Gardens, Tromsø | The northernmost botanic garden in the world, 200 miles (320 km) inside the Arctic Circle. Website |
Read more about this topic: Around The World In 80 Gardens
Famous quotes containing the words northern and/or europe:
“The note of the white-throated sparrow, a very inspiriting but almost wiry sound, was first heard in the morning, and with this all the woods rang. This was the prevailing bird in the northern part of Maine. The forest generally was alive with them at this season, and they were proportionally numerous and musical about Bangor. They evidently breed in that State.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)