VILLA D’ESTE
Tivoli, Italy
The famed water garden named for the 16th-century cardinal who presided over it rises from the hillside in spectacular fashion and, with it, a show of sylvan reds, coppery browns, and emeralds as masterful as a Masaccio painting.
JAPANESE TEA GARDEN
San Francisco
Created for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition, landscape architect Makoto Hagiwara’s garden shines forth like a siren in Golden Gate Park, its lacquered reds, muted blacks, and bonsai greens forming a mighty—and unmistakable—tribute to the city’s long and storied connection to the Japanese people and culture.
KIRSTENBOSCH NATIONAL GARDEN
Cape Town, South Africa
Behold the eternal spring of Cape Town’s Grootte Schuur Estate, where a botanic garden blooms with purple, yellow, and orange wildflowers under blue skies. The century-old garden was designed…
