{"id":997,"date":"2009-03-04T07:39:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T07:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=997"},"modified":"2017-09-16T07:49:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T06:49:46","slug":"the-worlds-top-ten-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/the-worlds-top-ten-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"The world’s top ten gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Top Ten lists becoming \"img_9392\"<\/a>popular, we thought Gardenvisit.com should have a list of the world’s ten best gardens.\u00a0 But how should it be compiled? Democracy or autocracy? Here are the democratic results: top ten gardens\u00a0 generated from our garden reviews and rating system<\/a>. But Winston Churchill said: “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” ( 11. 11, 1947)<\/p>\n

So let’s try autocracy: here is Tom Turner’s Top Ten Gardens List, which you can think of a list of the gardens which should be, like the Temple of Abu Simbel, if rising waters were going to flood all the world’s best gardens, by which I mean those which would disappear when the Vale of Kashmir, and Shalimar Bagh<\/a>, were submerged by global warming. The gardens are in no particular order:<\/p>\n