Monty Don's Italian Gardens

Monty Don's Italian Gardens is a television series of 4 programmes in which British gardener and broadcaster Monty Don visits several of Italy's most celebrated gardens.

Monty Don's Italian Gardens
GenreDocumentary
Adventure travel
Directed byPatti Kraus[1]
StarringMonty Don
No. of episodes4
Production
ProducerBBC
Running time4 × 1 hour
Release
Original networkBBC Two

Steve Wilson composed the title and theme music on the series.[2] A book based on the series, Great Gardens of Italy, was also published.[3]

Gardens
Ep.CountryGardenNotes
1. ItalyVilla Farnese, CaprarolaThe gardens of the villa are as impressive as the building itself, a significant example of the Italian Renaissance garden period.
1. ItalyVilla Adriana, TivoliThe remains of the garden set out for Roman Emperor Hadrian around his palace.
1. ItalyVilla d'Este, TivoliA spectacular Renaissance garden with many fountains. Website
1. ItalyBorghese gardens, RomePublic city garden, briefly mentioned
1. ItalySacro Bosco, Bomarzoa Mannerist monumental complex, populated by grotesque sculptures and small buildings located among the natural vegetation
1. ItalyVilla Aldobrandini, FrascatiTo provide water for the Teatro delle Acque ("Water Theater") of the garden, Aldobrandini constructed a new 8 kilometres (5 mi) long aqueduct
2. ItalyVilla di Castello, Florencethe country residence of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, these gardens had a profound influence upon the design of the Italian Renaissance garden and the later French formal garden.[4]
2. ItalyBoboli Gardens, Florencea historical park of the city of Florence that was opened to the public in 1766, representing one of the first and most important examples of the "Italian Garden", which later served as inspiration for many European courts.
2. ItalyVilla Gamberaia, Florencecharacterized now by its eighteenth-century terraced garden, that Don calls "enormously influential"
2. ItalyVilla I Tatti, FlorenceCecil Pinsent's first Italian Garden, influencing the notion Renaissance gardens were devoid of color except green
2. ItalyLa Foce, Val d'OrciaCecil Pinsent's last Italian Garden, which Don considers "perhaps his greatest"
3. ItalyTorrecchia Vecchia, Cisterna di Latinanotable English-style gardens
3. ItalyRoyal Palace of Caserta, CasertaThe 120 ha garden is a typical example of the baroque extension of formal vistas
3. ItalyVilla il Tritone, Sorrentoprivate garden website
3. Italya terraced lemon field, Amalfi
3. ItalyVilla Cimbrone, RavelloGardens visited by Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, T. S. Eliot, and most famously, Greta Garbo. Now a hotel website
3. ItalyLa Mortella, Ischiaa spectacular subtropical and Mediterranean garden developed since 1956 by the late Susana Walton Website
3. Italyan example of "urban farming" in Neaples
3. ItalyGarden of Ninfa, Cisterna di Latinacalled "the most romantic garden in the world"
4. ItalyOrto botanico di Padova, PaduaOne of the world's oldest academic botanical gardens
4. ItalyVilla Pisani, StraMonte gets lost in the maze of "the Queen" of the world famous venetian gardens, Villa Pisani
4. ItalyVilla Marlia, Lucca
4. ItalyLake ComoDon takes a boat trip with Judith Wade, founder of Grandi Giardini Italiani[5]
4. ItalyVilla Melzi d'Eril, Bellagiowebsite
4. ItalyIngegnoli , MilanOne of Italy's oldest nurseries
4. ItalyIsola Bella, Lake Maggiore"a tipsy drag queen of a garden ready to party all night long and the next day too"[6]

See Also

References
  1. "Monty Don's Italian Gardens — Man Friday Films". manfridayfilms.com.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 February 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2020.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Book Review: Great Gardens Of Italy". 16 October 2011 – via www.nzherald.co.nz.
  4. Isabella Ballerini, The Medici Villas, p. 32
  5. "Great Italian Gardens Founder Judith Wade Interview". 22 May 2017.
  6. "Monty Don's 'Great Gardens of Italy'". The Garden Clinic.
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