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By Mary Gostelow | Editor-in-chief of WOW.travel, the online magazine of kiwicollection.com
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The Hotel de Russie's highly-tiered Giardino Segreto, at the rear of the property, was created by Scipione Caffarelli (Cardinal Caffarelli Borghese) 1576-1633. Now, summer breakfasts and cocktails are held on its terraces. WOW.travel especially likes the hotel's Picasso Suite, with a balcony overlooking the gardens.
Hotel Lancaster has an exquisite interior couryard garden supervised by Philippe Niez and Alexandra Schmidt - not surprisingly, the roses include White Lancasters. Tables from the adjacent La Table du Lancaster, run by Michel Troisgros, spill out here in summer.
The seven acres of gardens at the Mount Nelson were laid out by John Ross in 1843. Today there are more than a hundred different types of trees, and the roses include the Mount Nelson Rose, cultivated in 1999 by gardener Paul Rice for the hotel's centenary.
Swissotel The Howard's compact central garden provides a summer-long meeting place for lawyers based at Lincoln's Inn nearby. Enjoy a glass of Pimm's to finish the working day, and perhaps have dinner at the hotel's Jaan Asian-blend restaurant.
The Shangri-La's many acres of gardens, designed by Bent Collins, include an arboretum of tropical trees and plants, sitting areas and a putting green - plus a giant pool and its surround. There are many areas here to enjoy.
There are two ecclesiastical contenders here. The Four Seasons, in the chic Triangolo d'Oro, area, is a mostly-rebuilt renovation of a 1432 monastery. The cloisters are gone, but the building wraps around four sides of an immaculate formal garden, with manicured laurels in military columns of eight. And in a peaceful more-residential area, the Bulgari, which opened this May on the site of a mediaeval convent, flows into its grassed garden, separated by a low wall from the city's botanic garden.
The courtyard of The Palace, on Madison between 50 and 51st Streets, has been there since railroad magnate Henry Villard built a townhouse here in 1882 (he asked architects McKim, Mead and White to copy the style of the Palazzo della Cancellaria in Rome). There are dogwoods by the entrance to Le Cirque restaurant, and, dominating the courtyard, four 25 foot-tall potted linden trees - had to be replaced in 2003, massive cranes were required.
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