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The Gardenvisit.com website was first published in 1998 as an information resource for UK garden visitors. Coverage has been expanded to include most countries with a heritage of public gardens to visit. For each country, the aim is to provide an authoritative source of information on garden design history and a comprehensive Garden Finder list of gardens open for visits by members of the public. For the reasons explained above the coverage has been further enlarged to include garden property (primary homes, second homes and hotels). Gardenvisit.com is one of the world's largest garden-related websites and one of the most visited. See: Alexa information on Traffic Rank for Gardenvisit.com . In December 2005 Gardenvisit.com ranked 121,333 in terms of traffic. Below are our keydates:

October 2008	Our 10th Birthday! 2 free garden design eBooks to download as presents for our loyal readers. And see Blog post on Gardenvisit.com's 10th Birthday.
April 2008	Trip Planner - unique new online tool for garden visitors to plan garden days out
Mar 2008	New Nursery Finder for the UK published
Nov 2007	Phase 1 of the complete site redesign went live
Aug 2007	Ruby on Rails RoR CMS for Gardenvisit.com website redesign
May 2007	Review of Chelsea Flower Show Garden Designs 2007
Jan 2007	New Zealand Garden Finder published
Sept 2006	New section on Garden Short Breaks
Aug 2006	JC Loudon's Garden Tours of England and Scotland published and Gertrude Jekyll's Colour schemes for the flower garden
July 2006	New edition of the London Landscape Guide published
June 2006	Advice notes on How to design a garden and on Planting design
May 2006	Review of garden designs at the 2006 Chelsea Flower Show and 2006 Oxford Companion to the Garden
April 2006	The world's first history of gardening (1835), from JC Loudon's Encyclopedia of gardening and Villiers-Stuart Gardens of the Great Mughals published online.
Oct 2005	New section on sustainable planning and design
Sept 2005	We have added an Image Gallery of royalty-free travel and garden photographs
Aug 2005	Survey of the site for the 2012 London Olympic Park
July 2005	We have published a set of essays on landscape architecture, urban design, public parks and garden design.
June 2005	New sections on Timurid gardens (Uzbekistan) and additions to the coverage of gardens in West Asia .
May 2005	Review of show garden designs for the 2005 Chelsea Flower Show
May 2005	We are pleased to have increased the number of gardens in the Garden Finder to over 2000.
April 2005	A state-by-state Garden Finder for the United states of America and a Garden Finder for Canada published with details of 300 additional North American public gardens
Apr 2005	New section on the Conservation and Restoration of Historic Heritage Gardens (+ criticism of the Privy Garden restoration at Hampton Court , London).
Mar 2005	The first pages in a new section on West Asian Gardens (India, Iran, etc)
Feb 2005	The Gates, Central Park, New York City, NY, USA Christo and Jean Claude (review by Madis Pihlak)
Feb 2005	New section on Garden Types, including Chinese, Japanese and Indian Gardens
Jan 2005	New section on the theory of garden design and landscape architecture and a suggestion for roof gardens in New York
Dec 2004	Following a site visit in December 2004, there is a new section which explains the vast importance of the Domain of Amun (Luxor, Egypt) in the history of western landscape and garden design. See also Al Azhar Park.
Nov 2004	We have added garden finder lists of places to visit in various countries, together with 300 additional photographs and descriptions of gardens. See new sections on Chinese Gardens, Japanese Gardens and Sacred Gardens Sacred Gardens.
Sept 2004	Reviews of 4 Kathryn Gustafson landscape designs + a visitor's comment on Westergasfabriek Park
May 2004	The first version of the Landscape Architecture Guide has been published.
April 2004	The Garden and Landscape Products Guide now takes the form of an illustrated book (approx 70 pages + 200 photographs).

Oct 1998	Gardenvisit.com website launched with descriptions of approx 800 No. gardens in Britain and Ireland