Personally, I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus's garden in the shade

Everything seems to be going well with the plants! I check them about every other day to see if they needs water and then normally end up giving them a little bit three times a week. I've decided that it's so nice having other living things in my apartment that I am considering buying a pet. I have narrowed it down to a rat or a hedgehog. Today my friends and I drove way out into the country to find this pet store that supposedly carries hedgehogs only to find no pet store at all. We got totally lost. But! We did find a Petsmart and decided that would do for the day. I found a brown and white rat that is very adorable and smart. She has some personality. So I am thinking about getting her. Rats eat vegetables and I could feed her from the vegetable garden I have at the botanical gardens! It would be so perfect. You can potty train hedgehogs though. You can teach them how to use a litter box. They are very intelligent animals. Either one would be exciting! I am a little nervous though, because even taking care of all these plants requires responsibility. I would want to be confident in my ability to be a good pet caretaker. I think I can handle it though. I'm a pretty responsible young lady.

All that aside, I have been researching all the most interesting gardens of the world lately and I would like to share them with you all. They are very fascinating and I really think that gardens can be beautiful works of art. I don't think people always give gardeners enough credit. You have to have an eye for color, you must be very patient, and you have to be able to work well with your hands. It's something I could definitely get into. Maybe I could even make some sort of garden for this class. Anyways! Here are the amazing, creative gardens! Enjoy.



The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is the brainchild of architect and architectural critic Charles Jencks and his late wife Maggie Keswick, an expert on Asian garden design. Open to the public only once a year, the 30-acre garden is on Jencks's private estate in Scotland. It took nearly two decades to complete.



England's Lost Gardens of Heligan have a storied history of prosperity, neglect and rejuvenation. The once glorious Heligan estate fell into disrepair as World War I creeped into England and priorities shifted. Nature took its course in the decades that followed, swallowing the gardens and obscuring the walkways. It wasn't until 1990 that two descendants of the Tremayne family—the owning family of the estate dating back to 1200—discovered a small garden and decided to revamp the site.



Originally destined to become a fruit plantation, the pristine grounds of Thailand's Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden sprawl over 500 acres. With a year-round tropical climate, the location is versatile enough to have cactus and pineapple gardens, as well as more sculpture-based displays, like the bizarre Umbrella Garden.



here are thousands of people around the world who are active aquascapers—men and women who spend countless hours cultivating spectacular landscapes in fish tanks. Some enthusiasts enter their work in competitions, while others merely seek the satisfaction that comes from difficult design work. Larger-scale aquascapes are often displayed at aquariums, and maintaining the vitality of plants submerged in a tank of water poses a host of challenges not associated with potting a few geraniums.



Weighing in at more than a quarter of a ton, Hotel Indigo claims this is the world's largest hanging flower basket. The 20-foot by 10-foot basket hangs from 25 feet up in the air and took engineers three weeks to build and a solid day of work to install. Over 100 varieties of flowers and plants are in the pot, and, given London's reputation for rain, they will likely have a prosperous future.



Not all gardens are about leisure; some are money-making machines. The roughly 20,000 square hectares of greenhouses on the southeast coast of Spain churn out fruit and vegetables by the ton on a year-round basis, fueling the province of Almería's economy. The greenhouses are packed together so tightly that they're visible from space.