Monte Palace Tropical Garden, Madeira

. size: big

. open to public, entrance fee

. photos from March 2017

Les Jardins d'Etretat, France

. size: medium

. open to public, entrance fee
. made by IL NATURE landscape architects

. photos from May 2017

The futuristic garden of Etretat offers a collection of contemporary art.

Views on Etretat Cliffs

The green sculptures 

Mushroom sculptures detail

Led Jardins d'Etretat are subdivided into The Avatar Garden, The Emotion Garden, The Power Garden, The Orchid Garden, Garden of Sounds, The Parnasse Garden ... 

Terra Nostra Garden, Azores, Portugal

. size: medium to big

. open to public, entrance fee

. thermal pools

. bubbling pond

. deep purple hydrangeas, typical for Azores islands

. orchids are grown outdoors in the garden

Arboretum Volčji Potok near Ljubljana, Slovenia

. open to visitors, entrance fee includes orchid and cactus greenhouse

. size: large

. best time to visit in late April - May

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. 

Rumi

Rhododendron

Magnolia

Arboretum Volčji Potok hosts a tulip festival each year in April and May

Spring tulip festival

the French formal garden

Occasionally there is also an exhibition of butterflies in a butterfly house at Arboretum Volčji Potok 

Cactus skeleton