Around the World in 80 Gardens explained

Genre:	Documentary Adventure travel
Runtime:	10 × 1 hour
Starring:	Monty Don
Network:	BBC Two
Num Episodes:	10
Producer:	BBC

Around the World in 80 Gardens is a television series of 10 programmes in which British gardener and broadcaster Monty Don visits 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 9pm 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.

Mexico & Cuba

	Country	Garden	Notes
1.			The chinampas of Lake Xochimilco, floating vegetable gardens dating back before Aztec times.
2.			Gardens created by leading Mexican architect, Luis Barragán, in Mexico City. Website of the Barragan Foundation
3.			A new botanic garden containing the region's many species of cactus, built alongside the Santo Domingo Cultural Center, formerly a monastery, on a site originally slated for development as a hotel. Website
4.			A surreal collection of jungle plants and concrete follies created in a former coffee plantation by Englishman Edward James in the Sierra Madre Oriental. Website
5.			An urban vegetable garden in the space left by a collapsed building.
6.			A large urban collective organic market garden (Organopónico)
7.			A small urban flower garden.

Australia & New Zealand

Starting with Botany Bay...

	Country	Garden	Notes
8.			Botanic gardens around Farm Cove at the centre of Sydney, on the site of a grain farm established by the first European settlers in 1788. Website
9.			A colonial-style garden with European planting in the hills near Sydney.
10.			A modern garden designed by Vladimir Sitta, including native plants and large slabs of red rock from central Australia.
11.			A park near Alice Springs recreating the habitats for desert plants across central Australia. Website
12.			Gardened continuously by Dame Elisabeth Murdoch since the 1920s.^[1]
13.			A European-style garden on the Mornington Peninsula, replacing European planting with Australian natives. Website
14.			A 12acres country garden created since 1964 in a paddock east of Auckland by Beverley McConnell. Website
15.			A domestic city garden of native New Zealand plants. Its name is Māori for "the peaceful encampment". Website

India

	Country	Garden	Notes
16.			Website, Garden Visit review.
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18.			Gardens of the Deeg Palace. Garden Visit review
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21.			An organic spice garden. Website
22.			The garden is maintained by the Kanan Devan Hill Plantations Company. The company is South India's biggest Tea producer and exporter and is also the first ever employee owned plantation company in India. Tea Purchase Website Company Website
23.			A sculpture garden created illegally by transport official Nek Chand who started the garden secretly in his spare time in 1957. Today it is spread over an area of forty-acres (160,000 m²), it is completely built of industrial & home waste and thrown-away items. Website

In addition to the Old Railway Garden, Don also featured the surrounding "tea gardens" (tea plantations). He expressly did not count it as one out of the eighty, however.

South America

	Garden	Notes
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26.		The locals live in floating houses on the river, and they grow vegetables and medicinal plants in small barges attached to their houses
27.	Bacu's Forest Garden, The Amazon
28.		In the middle of the limitless pampas a grand French-style mansion with gardens in 1500 hectares of lands and the infinite pampas beyond. Website
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United States of America

	Garden	Notes
30.		The Long Island gardens housing Jack Lenor Larsen's sculpture collection. Website
31.		A garden at Hunters Point in Queens, beside historic ship-loading gantries on the East River. Designed by Thomas Balsley. Website
32.		The first community garden in New York City, founded in 1973 by local resident Liz Christy on a vacant lot on the corner of Bowery and Houston Street. Website
33.		A modern garden of grasses, melting into the surrounding landscape.
34.		The garden of the author of the US Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. Website
	Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
35.		A 120acres botanic garden around the Huntington Library, laid out in the early 20th century. Website
36.		The gardens of opera singer Madame Ganna Walska. Website
37.		An instant mature garden for the Hollywood director and producer, with tall palm trees installed to provide privacy.
38.	The Greenberg Garden, Brentwood, Los Angeles	Designed by Mia Lehrer.

China & Japan

	Country	Garden	Notes
39.			16th-century garden, with many pavilions, island, pools and bridges.
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41.			Complex of palaces and gardens northwest of Beijing, covering 3.5 km², looted and destroyed by the British and French in 1860.
42.			Famous karesansui (dry landscape) rock garden. Part of the World Heritage Site. Website
43.			Large Japanese rock garden.
44.			Small Japanese rock garden.
45.			Tea room built by Sen Sōtan. Website
46.			Designed by Mirei Shigemori in the 1930s, including a moss garden and Japanese maples. Website

The Mediterranean

	Country	Garden	Notes
47.			A spectacular Renaissance garden with many fountains. Website
48.			The remains of the garden set out for Roman Emperor Hadrian around his palace.
49.			A private fruit and vegetable garden.
50.			A 16th-century Mannerist gardens of surprises.
51.			Royal vegetable gardens dating to the 12th century, irrigated with water from the Ourika valley, with water stored in large central cisterns. Garden Visit review
52.			The botanical garden created by French artist Jacques Majorelle in 1924, and restored by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé in the 1980s. Website
53.			The gardens of the Moorish palace in Andalusia. Website
54.			Private courtyard gardens, opened to the public in May each year, in the annual . Website Tourism Information
55.			The private garden of Spanish landscape gardener, Fernando Caruncho. Website

South Africa

	Garden	Notes
56.		A botanic garden on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain. Website
57.	Henk Scholtz's garden, Franschhoek near Cape Town
58.		Originally created to provide fresh food to passing ships, using water from natural springs; now a city park.
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60.		A garden in a Cape squatter camp.
61.		A garden established in the first half of the 20th century by English expatriate Edward Tudor Boddam-Whetham and his wife Ruby Newberry, daughter of Charles Newberry. It makes careful management of scarce water resources, and is named after Edward's ancestral home, Kirklington Hall in Nottinghamshire. Photos
62.		A rock garden created by a married couple (one a sculptor, the other an artist).
63.		The garden of Strilli Oppenheimer, wife of Nicky Oppenheimer. Website
64.		A garden in a township school.

Northern Europe

	Garden	Notes
65.		Perhaps the first English landscape garden, created by William Kent in the early 18th century. Website
66.		Influential English garden created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson; owned by the National Trust since 1967. Website
67.	Chateau Villandry, The Loire Valley	Acres of parterre and box hedge, recreated in the 20th century. Website
68.		Obsessively painted by Monet; now receiving over half a million visitors each year. Website
69.		The private garden of Belgian landscape artist Jacques Wirtz, including his trademark "cloud" box hedges. Website
70.		The Baroque Dutch garden of William III and Mary II, originally designed by Claude Desgotz in the 1680s but replaced by an English landscape garden in the 18th century; restored from 1970 to 1984 to its appearance in 1700. Website
71.		An example of a small modern domestic garden, designed by Piet Oudolf for Dutch architect Piet Boon.
72.		The northernmost botanic garden in the world, 200miles inside the Arctic Circle. Website

South East Asia

	Garden	Notes
73.		A jungle garden created by American Office of Strategic Services agent and silk merchant, Jim Thompson. Website
74.		Official residence of the King of Thailand. Website (Monty Don also visited the agricultural research fields at the Chitlada Palace.)
75.		Don visits one of the private gardens that line the canals of Bangkok, accompanied by actress Patravadi Mejudhon.
76.		The landscaping fulfilling the vision of former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, to soften the harshness of urban life by clothing Singapore in green. Singapore National Parks website
77.	Wilson Wong's Community Garden	An urban vegetable garden created as a community project.
78.		A 17th-century Hindu temple ("Taman Ayun" is Balinese for "beautiful garden"). Don also visited the Denpasar night Market.
79.		A typical Balinese private household. Don also visited Villa Batujimbar, luxury resort visited by Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall
80.		A modern Balinese garden, designed by Australian Made Wijaya (Michael White). Website

References and Notes

a.Revisited in Monty Don's American Gardens

i.Revisited in Monty Don's Italian Gardens

p.Revisited in Monty Don's Paradise Gardens

External links

- Review in The Daily Telegraph, 26 January 2008

Notes and References

Web site: Gardening Australia – Fact Sheet: Dame Elisabeth Murdoch . . 6 April 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080125220749/http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s998251.htm . 25 January 2008 . dead .