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Around the World in 80 Gardens was a television series of 10 programmes in which British gardener and broadcaster Monty Don visited 80 of the world's most celebrated gardens. The series was filmed over a period of 18 months and was first broadcast on BBC Two at 9.00pm on successive Sundays from 27 January to 30 March 2008. A book based on the series was also published. The title of the series was a reference to Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days and is a spiritual successor to Dan Cruickshank's earlier television series, Around the World in 80 Treasures, first broadcast in 2005.
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1. Mexico and CubaNow viewing2008-02-031hIn his first journey, Monty travels to two very different but neighbouring countries. Mexico is one of the most plant-rich and artistic cultures on the planet - from the ancient water gardens of Mexico City, to the modernist extremes of Luis Barragan and a surrealist fantasy hidden in the rainforest. Traveling to Cuba, Monty finds that the crumbling colonial grandeur of its urban landscape is now host to a very green revolution.
Gardens:
1. Mexico - The Floating Gardens, Xochimilco, Mexico City
2. Mexico - The Gardens of Luis Barragan: Casa Barragan, Prieto and Galvez
3. Mexico - The Ethnobotanical Garden, Oaxaca
4. Mexico - Las Pozas, Xilitla
5. Cuba - Alberto's Huerto, Havana
6. Cuba - Vivero Organoponico Alamar, Havana
7. Cuba - Maria's Garden, Havana
2. Australia and New Zealand2008-02-101hMonty travels to two of the youngest gardening cultures in the world. But it's not just about dreamy climates and wonderful plants. Monty sets out from the aptly named Botany Bay to uncover a story of culture clash and invasion, where the gentle habits of the indigenous people and the extraordinary natural landscapes have been dashed aside in favour of imported plants and a very 'English' garden style. In New Zealand, he sets off in search of the wild heart of the country, where he revels in a magical rainforest garden created entirely of native plants.
Gardens:
8. Australia - The Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
9. Australia - Kennerton Green, Mittagong, New South Wales
10. Australia - The Sitta Garden, Sydney
11. Australia - Alice Springs Desert Park, The Northern Territories
12. Australia - Cruden farm, Langwarrin, Melbourne
13. Australia - The Garden Vineyard, Moorooduc, Melbourne
14. New Zealand - Ayrlies Garden, Auckland
15. New Zealand - Te Kainga Marire , New Plymouth
3. India2008-02-171hMonty sets off on a technicolour tour of India, taking in some of the most opulent and heavenly gardens in human history, including perhaps the most famous architectural garden in the world, the Taj Mahal. As he travels through the spectacular landscapes of tea country, arid plains and urban mayhem, Monty's quest to gain insight into India's own epic cultural journey leads him from the majestic tomb gardens of the Mughal emperors and the pleasure gardens of the Hindu Maharajahs, to the quaintly nostalgic heritage of the British tea planters and a unique rock and sculpture garden little known in the west.
Gardens:
16. Taj Mahal and the Mehtab Bagh, Agra
17. Akbar's Tomb, Sikandra
18. The Monsoon Palace Gardens, Deeg
19. Jal Mahal, Jaipur
20. Hindu Temple Shrine Garden, Jaipur
21. Mr Abraham's Spice Garden, Thekkady, Kerala
22. The Old Railway Garden, Munnar, Kerala
23. The Rock Garden, Chandigarh
4. South America2008-02-241hSouth America, almost twice the size of Europe, is a continent with the most diverse climate and range of landscapes on the planet. It's also home to more than 50,000 endemic plant species but is a land under intense ecological threat.
Monty starts his journey in Rio de Janeiro to see the private garden of Brazil's greatest artist, Burle Marx, before travelling by boat to the ingenious floating gardens of the Amazon. He also takes in a crumbling traditional 'estancia' in the wind-swept Pampas, before finally ending his journey on the craggy Pacific coast of Chile where one man has created a garden completely in tune with its landscape.
Gardens:
24. Brazil - Burle Marx's Copocabana Promenade, Rio de Janeiro
25. Brazil - Burle Marx's Sitio Garden, Rio de Janeiro
26. Brazil - The Floating Gardens, The Amazon
27. Brazil - Bacu's Forest Garden, The Amazon
28. Argentina - Estancia Dos Talas , The Pampas
29. Chile - Bahia Azul, Los Vilos
5. The United States of America2008-03-021hMonty Don continues his extraordinary journey with a visit to the richest and most powerful nation in the world: the United States of America. There, he meets garden guerrillas who are creating community gardens from derelict land in New York, visits a Virginian garden that reflects the birth of the nation, and finally travels west to California, to see if gardens there reflect more than the glitz of the movie industry.
Gardens:
30. LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY
31. Gantry Plaza State Park, New York (designed by Tom Balsley)
32. Liz Christy Garden, Manhatten NY
33. James Van Sweden's garden at Ferry Cove, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland
34. Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia
35. The Huntington Botanic Garden, San Marino, California
36. Lotusland, Montecito, Santa Barbara
37. Roland Emmerich's Garden, Hollywood, California
38. The Greenberg Garden, Brentwood, Los Angeles (designed by Mia Lehrer)
6. China and Japan2008-03-091hMonty samples the very different approach of one of the world's great gardening civilisations: China and Japan. His researches lead him to the ancient scholars' gardens of Suzhou, as well as the awesome Yellow Mountains that inspired them. By the time he reaches the Imperial Summer Palace Gardens of Beijing he's beginning to get a little insight into the secrets of the enigmatic Zen gardens of Japan.
Gardens:
39. China - The Humble Admininstrator's garden, Suzhou
40. China - The Lion Grove, Suzhou
41. China - The Imperial Summer Palace, Beijing
42. Japan - Ryoan-ji Temple, Kyoto
43. Japan - Issidan, Ryogen-in Temple, Kyoto
44. Japan - Totekiko, Ryogen-in Temple, Kyoto
45. Japan - Urasenke Tea Garden, Kyoto
46. Japan - Tofuku-ji Temple Garden, Kyoto
7. The Mediterranean2008-03-161hMonty Don continues his journey with a trip to the Mediterranean - cradle of European civilization. In Italy, he visits some of the elaborate high Renaissance gardens which have hugely influenced western garden design. But he also travels to Marrakech to visit the oldest continuously maintained garden in the world and on to Spain to visit the Alhambra, thought by many to be the most perfect garden in the world.
Gardens:
47. Italy - Villa D'Este , Tivoli
48. Italy - Villa Adriana, Tivoli
49. Italy - Elio's vineyard, Tivoli
50. Italy - Villa Lante, Bagnaia
51. Morocco - The Aguedal, Marrakech
52. Morocco - The Majorelle , Marrakech
53. Spain - The Alhambra/Generalife, Granada
54. Spain - The Patios of Cordoba, Southern Spain
55. Spain - Casa Caruncho, Madrid
8. South Africa2008-03-231hMonty revels in the amazing flora that we've inherited from one of the most plant-rich zones in the world, including the strange King Proteus, South Africa's national plant. He also takes a journey to the Drakensberg Mountains to see some botanical treasures in their natural environment and traces the garden-story of the Dutch colonists who settled in South Africa in the nineteenth century.
Gardens:
56. Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town
57. Henk Scholtz's garden, Franschhoek near Cape Town
58. The Company Garden, Cape Town
59. Stellenberg, Kenilworth, Cape Town
60. Donovan's L'il Eden, Hout Bay, Cape Town
61. Kirklington, Ficksburg, Free State
62. The Savanna Rock Garden, Magaliesberg, Johannesburg
63. Brenthurst, Parktown, Johannesburg
64. Thuthuka School Garden, Tembisa Township near Johannesburg (supported by Food & Trees for Africa)
9. Northern Europe2008-03-301hFrom the floral wonders of Britain’s Sissinghurst Castle, to the garden palette of impressionist painter Monet, to the quirky individuality of two of Monty’s most admired contemporary designers, he's forced to wonder why this part of the world is so rich in gardening glories, and how we can care for this massive horticultural heritage.
Gardens:
65. UK - Rousham Park, Oxfordshire
66. UK - Sissinghurst Castle , Kent
67. France - Chateau Villandry , The Loire Valley
68. France - Claude Monet's Garden , Giverny
69. Belgium - Jacques Wirtz's Garden, Schoten, Antwerp
70. Netherlands - Het Loo Palace, Apeldoorn
71. Netherlands - The Boon Family Garden, Oostzaan, Amsterdam
72. Norway - The Arctic Alpine Botanic Gardens, Tromso
10. South-East Asia2008-04-061hSince the nineteenth century, Western gardeners have harboured a stereotype image of the perfect exotic garden and Monty visits the pre-eminent of these - the mysterious Jim Thompson's Garden in Bangkok. He then pushes on to Singapore, 'a City in a Garden', before finally touching down in the lush and sensuous island of Bali, where what he learns about South-East Asian gardens surprises him.
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