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View of the Italian Garden at Butchart Gardens, Victoria, with a pond, pink tulips, a decorative fountain, and lush greenery surrounded by flowering trees and distant hills.

Garden of the Master of Nets

Gardens of Campos do Jordão, Brazil.

garden in Hangzhou

Japanese garden

San Mateo: Japanese tea garden

Curving flower beds of colorful tulips and blue grape hyacinths bordered by green grass and blooming cherry trees at Keukenhof Gardens near Lisse, Netherlands.

Maymyo: botanical gardens

Palace of Versailles

Palace of Versailles: gardens

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Key People

Le Nôtre, André

André Le Nôtre

French landscape architect

Gertrude Jekyll

Gertrude Jekyll

English landscape architect

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Jacques Wirtz

Belgian landscape designer

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John Claudius Loudon

Scottish landscape architect

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William Robinson

British landscape designer