If you’re seeking a getaway and crave a connection with nature, why not visit the world’s most beautiful gardens? Enjoy these seven free tours online from the comfort of your own home.
One of my favorite pastimes – in nay season – is exploring gardens and arboretums to appreciate their stunning beauty. However, many of these locations are far from my home, making an in-person visit impossible.
Why Watch a Virtual Tour of a Garden?
Even if we can’t visit gardens in person, we can still appreciate their beauty from the comfort of our screens.
I’ve compiled a selection of my favorite virtual tours that highlight breathtaking gardens.
While I haven’t had the opportunity to visit these places firsthand, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed exploring each tour. Every one of them has secured a place on my “someday visit” list!
These virtual garden tours offer a calming and revitalizing retreat, providing a few moments of peace for the soul.
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“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”
John Burroughs
7 Virtual Tours of the World’s Most Beautiful Gardens
Click on any of the garden names below, and you’ll be taken directly to a virtual tour.
If you like what you see, keep searching – many of these sites have multiple virtual tours, each a little different.
And, of course, there are plenty of other garden tours to watch.
I just picked a few of my personal favorites.
Be drawn into the eternal beauty that nature provides.
1. Biltmore Gardens at Biltmore Estate
Our first virtual garden tour takes us to the breathtakingly expansive grounds of The Biltmore Estate, located just outside Asheville, North Carolina.
I can hardly believe that I lived in North Carolina for eleven years and never visited this stunning place! I really missed out on an amazing opportunity—what was I thinking?
George Vanderbilt spared no expense in designing his magnificent home, and the gardens are just as impressive. These formal gardens span many acres, both indoors and outdoors.
The magnolias are absolutely stunning in their spring bloom, and you’ll also see the espaliered pears and crabapples flourishing during this tour.
Make sure to stick around until the end to explore the garden statuary, which features dozens of remarkable pieces.
It’s truly astonishing to think that all of this was created as a private family garden.
Watch the tour here.
2. Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden
Next, fly across the US and over the Pacific Ocean and you will arrive at the Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden in Papaikou, Hawaii.
These four acres of tropical forests are packed full of orchids, giant bamboo, and more than 200 species of palm trees.
In this video, you’ll travel on an elevated path past waterfalls, streams, and fern forests.
It’s a completely different feel from the first tour, and equally stunning!
Watch the tour here.
3. Singapore Botanic Gardens and National Orchid Garden
If you have a love for orchids, this is absolutely the virtual garden tour you want to take.
This is orchid heaven.
The Singapore Botanic Gardens is one of three gardens, and the only tropical garden, to be honored as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Spend the next nine minutes taking in the drone footage of this beautiful tropical garden and you will understand why.
Watch the tour here.
4. Claude Monet’s Garden
The artist Claude Monet, of course, needs no introduction. This picturesque garden located in Giverny, France, is said to have inspired hundreds of his paintings.
Monet spent the last twenty years of his life tending this garden, which he considered his ultimate artistic masterpiece.
In just under six minutes, you will view a magical landscape in springtime filled with overflowing greenery and vibrant floral species, and of course, the famous water lily pond from so many of his paintings.
I love the rich abundance of flowers in this garden.
Watch the tour here.
“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.”
Claude Monet
5. The Kew Royal Botanic Gardens
The Royal Botanic Gardens are located on the outskirts of London, England. With an extraordinary diversity of plants, including more than 14,000 trees, it is a beautiful landscape.
This six-and-a-half-minute tour covers much of the grounds, and highlights the top ten attractions, which include a palace, Chinese pagoda, and even a treetop walkway!
This is a terrific tour of a garden I was somehow completely unfamiliar with. Now, I can’t wait to visit!
Watch the tour here.
6. The Keukenhof
In a short two minutes, this tour showcases more than seven million tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths. Filmed in April 2020, this is heaven for tulip lovers like me! The colors are absolutely stunning.
Located in The Netherlands, The Keukenhof is considered to be perhaps the most beautiful spring garden in the world, and viewing this tour, it’s easy to believe that.
This one left me pretty much speechless.
Watch the tour here.
“I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.”
Ruth Stout
7. Dubai Miracle Garden
Imagine if Disneyland and the New Year’s Day Rose Parade had a baby.
An enormous, gaudy, over-the-top, opulent baby.
When you view this tour, you will see what I mean when I say that’s just what it looks like.
Located on the outer edge of Dubai, UAE, this is a relatively new garden, having opened in 2013.
I was actually in Dubai a couple of years ago and had planned to see the Miracle Garden in person. Unfortunately, the weather was already too hot and the garden had closed for the season by late April (when it was around 106 degrees each day).
The Miracle Garden is the world’s largest natural flower garden. It features over 50 million flowers and 250 million plants.
What really sets it apart from every other garden is the creativity used to build unique structures such as houses, animals, and even an airplane – all out of flowers.
Truly a unique experience, this tour is a must-watch.
Watch the tour here.
Bonus: 6+ More Virtual Garden Tours for You to Enjoy!
- The Gardens at Waddesdon Manor
- RHS Garden Wisley
- Chicago Botanic Garden
- U.S. Botanic Garden
- Scotland’s Garden Scheme
- Gardens Illustrated (a page full of tours!)
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Final Thoughts on Visit the World’s Most Beautiful Gardens (Without Leaving Home)
Fortunately, we can enjoy the beauty of these virtual garden tours anytime we want, all without leaving home, putting on shoes, or changing out of our pajamas.
No matter the season, we can immerse ourselves in the vibrant blooms of spring and summer, the colorful foliage of fall, and the serene icy landscapes of winter—tailoring our viewing experience to match our moods and desires.
Have you had the chance to visit any of the beautiful gardens featured in this post?
Did you have a favorite among the virtual tours? I’ve tried to pick one that stands out, but I find unique reasons to appreciate each and every one!
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