Around the World in 80 Gardens

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 9.00pm on successive Sundays from 27 January to 30 March 2008. A book based on the series was also published.

Around the World in 80 Gardens
GenreDocumentary
Adventure travel
StarringMonty Don
No. of episodes10
Production
ProducerBBC
Running time10 × 1 hour
Release
Original networkBBC Two
Original release27 January (2008-01-27) –
30 March 2008 (2008-03-30)

The title of the series was a reference to Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days.

Mexico and Cuba
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1. MexicoThe Floating Gardens, Xochimilco, Mexico CityThe chinampas of Lake Xochimilco, floating vegetable gardens dating back before Aztec times.
2. MexicoThe Gardens of Luis Barragán: Casa de Luis Barragán, Casa Prieto López and Casa Antonio GálvezGardens created by leading Mexican architect, Luis Barragán, in Mexico City. Website of the Barragan Foundation
3. MexicoThe Ethno-Botanical Garden, OaxacaA 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. MexicoLas Pozas, XilitlaA 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. CubaAlberto's Huerto, HavanaAn urban vegetable garden in the space left by a collapsed building.
6. CubaVivero Organopónico Alamar, HavanaA large urban collective organic market garden (Organopónico)
7. CubaMaria's Garden, HavanaA small urban flower garden.

Australia and New Zealand

Starting with Botany Bay...

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8. AustraliaThe Royal Botanic Gardens, SydneyBotanic 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. AustraliaKennerton Green, Mittagong, New South WalesA colonial-style garden with European planting in the hills near Sydney.
10. AustraliaThe Sitta Garden, SydneyA modern garden designed by Vladimir Sitta, including native plants and large slabs of red rock from central Australia.
11. AustraliaAlice Springs Desert Park, Northern TerritoryA park near Alice Springs recreating the habitats for desert plants across central Australia. Website
12. AustraliaCruden Farm, Langwarrin, MelbourneGardened continuously by Dame Elisabeth Murdoch since the 1920s.[1]
13. AustraliaThe Garden Vineyard, Moorooduc, MelbourneA European-style garden on the Mornington Peninsula, replacing European planting with Australian natives. Website
14. New ZealandAyrlies Garden, AucklandA 12-acre (49,000 m2) country garden created since 1964 in a paddock east of Auckland by Beverley McConnell. Website
15. New ZealandTe Kainga Marire, New PlymouthA domestic city garden of native New Zealand plants. Its name is Māori for "the peaceful encampment". Website

India
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16. IndiaTaj Mahal and the Mehtab Bagh, AgraWebsite, Garden Visit review.[p]
17. IndiaAkbar's Tomb, Sikandra
18. IndiaThe Monsoon Garden, DeegGardens of the Deeg Palace. Garden Visit review
19. IndiaJal Mahal, Jaipur
20. IndiaHindu Temple Shrine Garden, Jaipur
21. IndiaMr Abraham's Spice Garden, Thekkady, KeralaAn organic spice garden. Website
22. IndiaThe Old Railway Garden, Munnar, KeralaThe 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. IndiaThe Rock Garden, ChandigarhA 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
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24. BrazilBurle Marx's Copacabana Promenade, Rio de Janeiro
25. BrazilGarden of the Sítio Roberto Burle Marx, Rio de Janeiro
26. BrazilThe Floating Gardens, The Amazon RiverThe locals live in floating houses on the river, and they grow vegetables and medicinal plants in small barges attached to their houses
27. BrazilBacu's Forest Garden, The Amazon
28. ArgentinaCarlos Thays's garden at Estancia Dos Talas, Dolores, Buenos Aires, in The PampasIn the middle of the limitless pampas a grand French-style mansion with gardens in 1500 hectares of lands and the infinite pampas beyond. Website
29. ChileThe private garden of Chilean landscape architect Juan Grimm at Bahia Azul, Los Vilos

United States
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30. USALongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, New YorkThe Long Island gardens housing Jack Lenor Larsen's sculpture collection. Website
31. USAGantry Plaza State Park, New YorkA garden at Hunters Point in Queens, beside historic ship-loading gantries on the East River. Designed by Tom Balsley. Website
32. USALiz Christy Garden, Manhattan, New YorkThe 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. USAJames Van Sweden's garden at Ferry Cove, Chesapeake Bay, MarylandA modern garden of grasses, melting into the surrounding landscape.
34. USAMonticello, Charlottesville, VirginiaThe garden of the author of the US Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. Website[a]
USATallgrass Prairie National Preserve
35. USAThe Huntington Botanic Garden, San Marino, CaliforniaA 120-acre (0.49 km2) botanic garden around the Huntington Library, laid out in the early 20th century. Website
36. USALotusland, Montecito, Santa Barbara, CaliforniaThe gardens of opera singer Madame Ganna Walska. Website[a]
37. USARoland Emmerich's Garden, Hollywood, CaliforniaAn instant mature garden for the Hollywood director and producer, with tall palm trees installed to provide privacy.
38. USAThe Greenberg Garden, Brentwood, Los AngelesDesigned by Mia Lehrer.

China and Japan
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39. ChinaThe Humble Administrator's Garden, Suzhou16th-century garden, with many pavilions, island, pools and bridges.
40. ChinaThe Lion Grove, Suzhou
41. ChinaThe Imperial Summer Palace, BeijingComplex of palaces and gardens northwest of Beijing, covering 3.5 km2, looted and destroyed by the British and French in 1860.
42. JapanRyoan-ji Temple, KyotoFamous karesansui (dry landscape) rock garden. Part of the World Heritage Site. Website
43. JapanIssidan, Ryogen-in Temple, KyotoLarge Japanese rock garden.
44. JapanTotekiko, Ryogen-in Temple, KyotoSmall Japanese rock garden.
45. JapanUrasenke Tea Garden, KyotoTea room built by Sen Sōtan. Website
46. JapanTofuku-ji Temple Garden, KyotoDesigned by Mirei Shigemori in the 1930s, including a moss garden and Japanese maples. Website

Mediterranean
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47. ItalyVilla d'Este, TivoliA spectacular Renaissance garden with many fountains. Website[i]
48. ItalyVilla Adriana, TivoliThe remains of the garden set out for Roman Emperor Hadrian around his palace.[i]
49. ItalyElio's vineyard, TivoliA private fruit and vegetable garden.
50. ItalyVilla Lante, BagnaiaA 16th-century Mannerist gardens of surprises.
51. MoroccoThe Aguedal, MarrakechRoyal vegetable gardens dating to the 12th century, irrigated with water from the Ourika valley, with water stored in large central cisterns. Garden Visit review[p]
52. MoroccoThe Majorelle, MarrakechThe botanical garden created by French artist Jacques Majorelle in 1924, and restored by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé in the 1980s. Website
53. SpainThe Alhambra and Generalife, GranadaThe gardens of the Moorish palace in Andalusia. Website[p]
54. SpainThe Patios of CórdobaPrivate courtyard gardens, opened to the public in May each year, in the annual Courtyards Festival of Cordoba. WebsiteTourism Information
55. SpainCasa Caruncho, MadridThe private garden of Spanish landscape gardener, Fernando Caruncho. Website

South Africa
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56. South AfricaKirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape TownA botanic garden on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain. Website
57. South AfricaHenk Scholtz's garden, Franschhoek near Cape Town
58. South AfricaThe Company's Garden, Cape TownOriginally created to provide fresh food to passing ships, using water from natural springs; now a city park.
59. South AfricaStellenberg, Kenilworth, Cape Town
60. South AfricaDonovan's L'il Eden, Hout Bay, Cape TownA garden in a Cape squatter camp.
61. South AfricaKirklington, Ficksburg, Free StateA garden established on 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. South AfricaThe Savanna Rock Garden, Magaliesberg, JohannesburgA rock garden created by a married couple (one a sculptor, the other an artist).
63. South AfricaBrenthurst Gardens, Parktown, JohannesburgThe garden of Strilli Oppenheimer, wife of Nicky Oppenheimer. Website
64. South AfricaThuthuka School Garden, Tembisa Township near JohannesburgA garden in a township school.

Northern Europe
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65. UKRousham Park, OxfordshirePerhaps the first English landscape garden, created by William Kent in the early 18th century. Website
66. UKSissinghurst Castle, KentInfluential English garden created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson; owned by the National Trust since 1967. Website
67. FranceChateau Villandry, The Loire ValleyAcres of parterre and box hedge, recreated in the 20th century. Website
68. FranceClaude Monet's Garden, GivernyObsessively painted by Monet; now receiving over half a million visitors each year. Website
69. BelgiumJacques Wirtz's Garden, Schoten, AntwerpThe private garden of Belgian landscape artist Jacques Wirtz, including his trademark "cloud" box hedges. Website
70. NetherlandsHet Loo Palace, ApeldoornThe 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. NetherlandsThe Boon Family Garden, Oostzaan, AmsterdamAn example of a small modern domestic garden, designed by Piet Oudolf for Dutch architect Piet Boon.
72. NorwayThe Arctic Alpine Botanic Gardens, TromsøThe northernmost botanic garden in the world, 200 miles (320 km) inside the Arctic Circle. Website

South-East Asia
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73. ThailandJim Thompson's Garden, BangkokA jungle garden created by American Office of Strategic Services agent and silk merchant, Jim Thompson. Website
74. ThailandThe Grand Palace, BangkokOfficial residence of the King of Thailand. Website (Monty Don also visited the agricultural research fields at the Chitlada Palace.)
75. ThailandThe Klong Gardens, BangkokDon visits one of the private gardens that line the canals of Bangkok, accompanied by actress Patravadi Mejudhon.
76. SingaporeThe City in a GardenThe 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. SingaporeWilson Wong's Community GardenAn urban vegetable garden created as a community project.
78. IndonesiaPura Taman Ayun, Mengwi, BaliA 17th-century Hindu temple ("Taman Ayun" is Balinese for "beautiful garden"). Don also visited the Denpasar night Market.
79. IndonesiaTraditional Home Compound, Ubud, BaliA typical Balinese private household. Don also visited Villa Batujimbar, luxury resort visited by Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall
80. IndonesiaVilla Bebek, Sanur, BaliA modern Balinese garden, designed by Australian Made Wijaya (Michael White). Website

References and Notes
a.a1 a2 Revisited in Monty Don's American Gardens
i.i1 i2 Revisited in Monty Don's Italian Gardens
p.p1 p2 p3 Revisited in Monty Don's Paradise Gardens
  1. "Gardening Australia - Fact Sheet: Dame Elisabeth Murdoch". Archived from the original on 25 January 2008. Retrieved 6 April 2008.

See also
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