London can lay claim to being a world Garden Capital, as Paris and Milan are for fashion, New York for finance and Rome for architecture. But there are suprisingly few top quality gardens to visit in the Greater London Area. There are many more places of landscape architecture interest. The following places to visit are recommend for garden enthusiasts who come to London:
Bedford Square - traffic calming for London's best preserved eithteenth century square
Cannizaro Park - a nineteenth century garden, now a park and hotel
Chiswick
House Gardens - famous eighteenth century park in West London
Claremont Landscape Garden - famous landscape park south-west of London
Gabo Fountain at St Thomas's Hospital - constructivist fountain, on roof-garden by Westminster bridge
Garden History Museum Garden - knot garden, by Lambeth Palace and Bridge ~Ham House - restored renaissance garden in West London
Hamstead Garden Suburb pioneer of garden city housing
Hampton
Court - baroque palace garden in West London
Holland Park - garden of a famous mansion, now a public park
Inns of Court - garden squares in London's legal quarter
Kensington Gardens - baroque royal park with many features
Kenwood - house by Robert Adam, with landscape park, in north London
Kew Gardens - world-famous botanical garden
Painshill Landscape Garden - restoration of famous eighteenth century landscape, south of London
Red House - Arts and Crafts garden made by William Morris
Regent's Park - picturesque Royal Park designed by John Nash & John Adey Repton
St. Dunstan's in the East and Wren Tower - bombed church restored as a romantic public garden
St. James's Park - Central London's best royal park
Victoria Embankment Gardens - classic nineteenth century public garden
Westminster Cloister Garden - medieval cloister
Westminster College Garden - monastery garden
Wisley RHS Garden - large horticultural garden owned by the RHS, near Guildford
