Famous Gardens

Quiz

1. Which London botanic garden has the "largest and most diverse botanical collection in the world"?
2. Which county is known as the Garden of England?
3. The Luxembourg Gardens is a park in which European capital city?
4. English gardener and landscape architect Lancelot Brown was more commonly known by what name?
5. What name is give to a minimalist dry landscape also known as a Japanese rock garden?








6. Princes Street Gardens are two adjacent public parks in the centre of which UK city?
7. Tivoli Gardens is an amusement park and pleasure garden in which European city?
8. If Welwyn Garden City is the second garden city in England, which town is the first?
9. The gardens of Chartwell, Kent has walls built by which famous person?
10. Piccadilly Gardens is an open-space area situated in the heart of which city?
11. 'Here Comes the Sun' was written by George Harrison whilst walking in which friend's garden?
12. The Garden of Earthly Delights is an oil painting painted between 1490 and 1510 by which artist?
13. What's the name of the global garden housed in tropical biomes in Cornwall?
14. What is the name of the garden where Jesus prayed before he was arrested?
15. Which garden was the most famous designed by British horticulturist Percy Thrower in 1974?

Answers

1. Kew Gardens
2. Kent
3. Paris
4. Capability Brown
5. Zen garden
6. Edinburgh, Scotland
7. Copenhagen
8. Letchworth Garden City, or Letchworth
9. Winston Churchill (whose hobby was bricklaying)
10. Manchester
11. Eric Clapton's garden
12. Hieronymus Bosch
13. Eden Project
14. Gethsemane
15. Blue Peter Garden