Click on the links to learn about some of the threats facing historic parks and gardens worldwide.

List of Shame - at last, landscapes, parks and gardens have been included in their own right on England's At Risk Register.

Disney comes to Versailles? - questionning the integrity of recent restoration works at Versailles.

Is the Gateway Closed? - on the closure of the Gateway Gardens Trust, a scheme to make historic gardens accessible to all (see pic above).

Terminator! - on the effects of the credit crunch in California, which are threatening to close 220 parks.










Persian Paradise Neglected - the Bagh-e-Fin at Kashan is culturally important and also popular with visitors, so why is it being neglected?

A Surrealist Stowe in Mexico - an initiative to save and restore a Surrealist 20th century garden in Mexico.

Greenwich Park in 2012 - plans to use Greenwich Park for
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mpic equestrian and pentathlon events are controversial.

Paradise Not Yet Lost - the garden behind Elizabeth von Arnim's Elizabeth and Her Garden awaits investigation.

Minoan Menace - the Cretan garden of archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans faces a ferocious imported palm beetle.

No Rest for 'Mon Repos' - a landscape park near St Petersburg faces decay.


Change of Heart - the UK's Commonwealth Institute and its Sylvia Crowe landscape has faced development pressure from the government.

Quintessential Quinta - inappropriate development threatening an Argentinian garden (the Museo Juan Martîn de Pueyrredón) is successfully fought off with help from the HGF.

Hieroglyphs, not Graffiti - hopes are high for a restoration of Parc du Grand Veneur in France.

 




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