This venerable garden - the oldest surviving in Iran - was completed in 1590 by the early Safavids. It has the typical 'Chahar Bagh' draft water crossing mountain ranges, derived from verses in the Koran that describes paradise as a land where two rivers to the stabbing. Of this case. The water from the mountains through an underground system of quanats or pipes Educate yourself shivering in a series of broad basins are covered with blue tiles, and this - together with the bubbling water in itself - a surprising contrast to the view of stone roads. Shade is made of rows of cypress trees, allegedly 400 years old, while the remnants of the massive stone walls hem it all in.
Garden writer, designer and expert on Persian gardens Penelope Hobhouse warmly describes Bagh-e Golshan (also known as Afif-Abad) as "paradise on earth, well worth the seven hours desert drive - for this garden is situated in Taba, one of the most isolated cities in Iran, between two large salt flats. In such a climate, abundant water a mysterious quality, and of course water gushes into large pools that extend over large terraces, which begins with lawns. The oasis feeling reinforced of mature trees which date palms, citrus and pomegranates, while cycads, roses and hollyhocks produce a wonderfully absurd edge.
Sometimes known as El Novillero, this iconic garden in Sonoma Valley in northern California, was designed by Thomas Church for the Donnell family in 1937. The main movement of the garden pool and amorphic glass pavilion situated above the house walls. This perfectly balanced composition aimed at white abstract sculpture in the pool itself, which is surrounded by a generous wooden deck shaded by trees, gnarled oak. The geometric shape of the pavilion nicely offset pot. While this space is photogenic, one could easily conclude from the images, it is indeed a luxury pool. At the site, mastery of the draft Church appreciates the way he talks tough and context surrounding landscape. Meanwhile, elevated position creates an exciting sense of other-worldly. 
In the heart of the chic district of Washington DC Georgetown is home (now museum) and the 10-acre garden Dumbarton Oaks, which is now owned by Harvard University. The garden is largely the creation of Mrs Mildred Bliss, wife of a senior American diplomat working in long-term cooperation - from 1920 - with designer Beatrix Farrand, who also came from the American aristocracy. A series of brick terraces were planned as a way to deal with the extreme slope away from the house, and realized in the typical Arts and Crafts style garden rooms. But it goes further away from the garden looked more original intervention, such as double borders crazy slopes, and a lovely narrow bricks route that connects the upper and lower parts of the garden. The highly original architectural details, stone, wood and metal, are a constant distraction and there are many moments lovely surprise. Again, not to be missed is the recently reopened Pre-Columbian Gallery extension of the modernist architect Philip Johnson, a good indoor-outdoor feeling. 
Irritable cacti are not everyone's idea of the most beautiful plants a garden, but even skeptics can be converted by this extraordinarily arresting collection of cacti and other succulents, basking in the California Sun collection of cactus Huntington was developed in the early 20th century by William Rich Hart, allegedly by angry German director of gardens. She grew up in small chunks on the six acre hilly terrain with wide, road-like paths meandering between tall stands of giant cactus, offset by the great mass of pin-cushion, barrel and other forms, including many rare specimens. Indeed, Huntington a broader collection of cactus than any other botanical institution. It is not just the dramatic highlights of cactus and decoy, but the unlikely range of colors seen in meat and flowers - pink, green, purple, yellow, blue and orange.
My favorite American garden was begun by Walter Beck, a painter and teacher, everywhere in the late twenties moved after her marriage to Marion Stone, whose family owns land in northern New York. They called it in reference to text Innisfree WB Yeats once, which begins: "I will arise and go now and go to Innisfree. And a small cabin build ..." Indeed, the pair built an impressive Queen Anne-style mansion overlooking a large lake and approximately 741 acres owned by the rolling hills and forests. In the house (which was demolished in 1982 to take advantage of the garden) is brick terraces, while elsewhere many landscape effects were created in the spirit of "Cup Garden" interpretation of ancient Chinese garden design - now discredited, but that works well in this context. The lake is central to most of these views is significantly developed in the late 20th century by landscape architect Lester Collins. The result is an ultra-refined, large garden that is "just so" in every way.
This original 16th century garden in Jiangsu province is also known as the Garden of Ecstasy - which promises much. But it also supplies. This is a garden of illusion, almost a hectare occupying power, but gives an impression of depth, width and height. An artificial mountain in distinctive yellow stone seems to be a natural part of the hilly landscape around the garden, and a decent "musical" stream gurgling down into a large pool, the many bays to create a sense of naturalism. A nice low eaved pavilion extends over the water at a time while the other end of the pool is worthy Bridge, Seven Stars. Besides this solves the garden more space with pavilions and all. The fact that the garden was fully restored in the 19th century does not change the fact that her beauty.
Without doubt the most dramatically situated botanic garden in the world, lies on the landward side of Table Mountain outside Cape Town, Kirstenbosch is one of the world's leading botanical institutions. The garden was founded in 1913 by English botanists and originally evolved slowly. Haven has long focused on the enormous and diverse native flora of South Africa and large parts of large areas remain as native Fynbos or bushy country full of plants. Of particular interest to foreign tourists, the Protea garden - a showcase of the world other plants - and the possibilities of Restio grass, large parts of them in their characteristic deep green and brown. It was relatively recently that these plants need fire to reproduce discovered smoke and Kirstenbosch has taken the lead in unraveling the mysteries of this process.
None other than Yves Saint Laurent rescued this Marrakesh garden from destruction in the sixties, this back to how it was in its heyday. Made in the twenties of the painter Jacques Majorelle, the garden is best known for the distinctive cobalt blue color used for fountain bases, pool surrounds and many other details. It looks particularly elegant against the predominantly green planting of the shady garden. But blue is not the only color at work here: iron work, windows and pots are bright yellow, apple-green doors, paths are red, pink or blue, and purple bougainvillea can be found everywhere. Here is a garden that is a happy celebration of the possibilities of paint.
Luis Barragán is one of the most copied designers in the world, admired for his trademark smooth plaster walls painted in bright colors - pink, yellow, blue, red - actually sing in the Mexican sun, but sometimes looks more prosaic in colder climates. As a young man Barragán travels in Europe and a period in Paris, expert lectures by Le Corbusier modernist architecture. This influence can be seen in this country trust and the cool rationality Barragán structural patterns that walls and other surfaces as abstract geometric compositions for aircraft use. But unlike most Modernist architects, Barragán always strived to inject a sense of transcendence in his work. Las Arboleda , a housing project near Mexico City, he changed what sounds like an everyday task for a horse trough, paddock and gallop into an extravaganza of colors and abstract geometric shapes, with the long trough at the end of the gallop always a architectural element (a live channel) ends at a blue wall and overlooked by a monumental white vertical block.
It was just joy to gardeners on the images of this remarkable jungle garden, which was shown as part of Monty Don's BBC television series Around the World in 80 Gardens. Here, finally, there was strong evidence that the garden had not literally fallen and been eaten by the jungle, as was claimed. Actually Poza Las happy, loving maintained by a dedicated team of gardeners. English eccentric and patron of surrealism Edward James built this place more than 20 years, starting in the fifties - a maze of bizarre buildings and structures can be found scattered over about 80 hectares of jungle, which is always on the verge of the overwhelming. Las Poza means "pools, waterfalls and a series of platforms and gargle away the chilling walkways, suspended in the jungle canopy.
Hidden in a remote corner of Quebec, eastern Canada, is "Four Winds", a garden that a true palimpsest of the 20th century European style gardens, filled with references to great moments of respectful design. The owner and creator, Frank Cabot, is disarmingly honest about his program for "plagiarism" since 1975 - though "homage" would be a more charitable and accurate to be. Everything here is achieved at the highest level, from the busy, narrow double borders near the house, the Japanese teahouse (based on a number of years with a craftsman in Japan and then built on site) and pigeonnier the core of a formal garden pleached everything and still pools. A spectacular gulf Asian garden shrubs and flowers is crossed by a scary wobbly rope bridge, Mr. Cabot urges visitors to avoid. But despite all the tangible efforts, Quatre Vents a garden that does not take itself too seriously - just past pigeonnier an automated frog orchestra swings into action when a light beam is turned off.
A garden extravaganza of the many different moods and moments, the Liu Yuan (in the suburbs of Suzhou) built by the family of the same name in the early 19th century. The garden is divided into four divided parts, but many times, creating a feeling of walking through a maze charmed by the architectural and (apparently) natural properties. Perhaps the most famous area of the garden is the whitewashed corridor with open lattice windows tantalizing glimpse of the pool can be obtained. This pool is surrounded by extensive artificial rock work and small buildings. Besides, long corridors, the visitor deeper into the four acre area, including highlights of 21ft-high, water-worn Taihu stone, situated above the second pole as a representation of a Chinese mountain.
There are hundreds of sculpture gardens around the world, but very few can boast the momentum balance and a large house on Long Island outside Manhattan. Here, the textile designer Jack Lenor Larsen, the last few decades, made of a flexible landscape structure for the representation of an ongoing program of sculpture by some of the most respected artists in the world, including Louise Bourgeois, Dale Chihuly and William de Kooning, who up and-coming sculptors. Approximately 30 different episodes in themselves frame a wide range of work, on lawns and in forests, dunes and more. Among the more notable moments on permanent longhouse, with bright red-painted sign posts in the middle red blooming azaleas, and the red garden white pine avenue with its central pool. It is a garden, not only to provide a complementary framework for the sculpture, it has sculptural integrity in itself.
The other border of the park overlooking Lake Michigan itself. Unlikely, the park also serves as a roof rail lines run underneath. Roster of designers employed by the project is impressive - including Kathryn Gustafson to design large and Piet Oudolf for the planting detail. In front of Gehry pavilion has collected Oudolf factories in his trademark style of carefully crafted layers and variations of perennials and grasses, including Nepeta, sea lavender and indigo (most of them come from the Chicago area). One of the many small gardens in the park is the Lurie Garden, where Oudolf has a carpet of perennials surrounded by a high hedge bastion of beech, hornbeam and evergreens.
