| Around the World in 80 Gardens | | Genre | Documentary | | Starring | Monty Don | | No. of episodes | 10 | | Production | | Producer(s) | BBC | | Running time | 10 × 1 hour | | Broadcast | | Original channel | BBC Two | | Original run | 27 January 2008 – 30 March 2008 | 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. [edit] Mexico and Cuba | # | Country | Garden | Notes | | 1. | Mexico | The Floating Gardens, Xochimilco, Mexico City | The chinampas of Lake Xochimilco, floating vegetable gardens dating back before Aztec times. | | 2. | Mexico | The Gardens of Luis Barragán: Casa de Luis Barragán, Casa Prieto López and Casa Antonio Gálvez | Gardens created by leading Mexican architect, Luis Barragan, in Mexico City. Website of the Barragan Foundation | | 3. | Mexico | The Ethno-Botanical Garden, Oaxaca | 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. | Mexico | Las Pozas, Xilitla | 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. | Cuba | Alberto's Huerto, Havana | An urban vegetable garden in the space left by a collapsed building. | | 6. | Cuba | Vivero Organopónico Alamar, Havana | A large urban collective organic market garden (Organopónico) | | 7. | Cuba | Maria's Garden, Havana | A small urban flower garden. | [edit] Australia and New Zealand Starting with Botany Bay... | # | Country | Garden | Notes | | 8. | Australia | The Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney | 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. | Australia | Kennerton Green, Mittagong, New South Wales | A colonial-style garden with European planting in the hills near Sydney. | | 10. | Australia | The Sitta Garden, Sydney | A modern garden designed by Vladimir Sitta, including native plants and large slabs of red rock from central Australia. | | 11. | Australia | Alice Springs Desert Park, Northern Territory | A park near Alice Springs recreating the habitats for desert plants across central Australia. Website | | 12. | Australia | Cruden Farm, Langwarrin, Melbourne | Gardened continuously by Dame Elisabeth Murdoch since the 1920s.[1] | | 13. | Australia | The Garden Vineyard, Moorooduc, Melbourne | A European-style garden on the Mornington Peninsula, replacing European planting with Australian natives. Website | | 14. | New Zealand | Ayrlies Garden, Auckland | A 12 acre country garden created since 1964 in a paddock east of Auckland by Beverley McConnell. Website | | 15. | New Zealand | Te Kainga Marire, New Plymouth | A domestic city garden of native New Zealand plants. Its name is Maori for "the peaceful encampment". Website | | # | Country | Garden | Notes | | 16. | India | Taj Mahal and the Mehtab Bagh, Agra | Website, Garden Visit review. | | 17. | India | Akbar's Tomb, Sikandra | | | 18. | India | The Monsoon Palace Gardens, Deeg | Garden Visit review | | 19. | India | Jal Mahal, Jaipur | | | 20. | India | Hindu Temple Shrine Garden, Jaipur | | | 21. | India | Mr Abraham's Spice Garden, Thekkady, Kerala | An organic spice garden. Website | | 22. | India | The Old Railway Garden, Munnar, Kerala | | | 23. | India | The Rock Garden, Chandigarh | A sculpture garden created illegally by transport official Nek Chand. Website | [edit] South America [edit] United States of America | # | Country | Garden | Notes | | 30. | USA | LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, New York | The Long Island gardens housing Jack Lenor Larsen's sculpture collection. Website | | 31. | USA | Gantry Plaza State Park, New York | A garden at Hunters Point in Queens, beside historic ship-loading gantries on the East River. Designed by Tom Balsley. Website | | 32. | USA | Liz Christy Garden, Manhattan, New York | 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. | USA | James Van Sweden's garden at Ferry Cove, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland | A modern garden of grasses, melting into the surrounding landscape. | | 34. | USA | Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia | The garden of the author of the US Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. Website | | 35. | USA | The Huntington Botanic Garden, San Marino, California | A 120-acre (0.49 km2) botanic garden around the Huntington Library, laid out in the early 20th century. Website | | 36. | USA | Lotusland, Montecito, Santa Barbara, California | The gardens of opera singer Madame Ganna Walska. Website | | 37. | USA | Roland Emmerich's Garden, Hollywood, California | An instant mature garden for the Hollywood director and producer, with tall palm trees installed to provide privacy. | | 38. | USA | The Greenberg Garden, Brentwood, Los Angeles | Designed by Mia Lehrer. | [edit] China and Japan | # | Country | Garden | Notes | | 39. | China | The Humble Administrator's Garden, Suzhou | 16th century garden, with many pavilions, island, pools and bridges. | | 40. | China | The Lion Grove, Suzhou | | | 41. | China | The Imperial Summer Palace, Beijing | Complex of palaces and gardens northwest of Beijing, covering 3.5 km², looted and destroyed by the British and French in 1860. | | 42. | Japan | Ryoan-ji Temple, Kyoto | Famous karesansui (dry landscape) rock garden. Part of the World Heritage Site. Website | | 43. | Japan | Issidan, Ryogen-in Temple, Kyoto | Large Japanese rock garden. | | 44. | Japan | Totekiko, Ryogen-in Temple, Kyoto | Small Japanese rock garden. | | 45. | Japan | Urasenke Tea Garden, Kyoto | Tea room built by Sen Sōtan. Website | | 46. | Japan | Tofuku-ji Temple Garden, Kyoto | Designed by Mirei Shigemori in the 1930s, including a moss garden and Japanese maples. Website | [edit] Mediterranean | # | Country | Garden | Notes | | 47. | Italy | Villa d'Este, Tivoli | A spectacular Renaissance garden with many fountains. Website | | 48. | Italy | Villa Adriana, Tivoli | The remains of the garden set out for Roman Emperor Hadrian around his palace. | | 49. | Italy | Elio's vineyard, Tivoli | A private fruit and vegetable garden. | | 50. | Italy | Villa Lante, Bagnaia | A 16th-century Mannerist gardens of surprises. | | 51. | Morocco | The Aguedal, Marrakech | 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. | Morocco | The Majorelle, Marrakech | 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. | Spain | The Alhambra and Generalife, Granada | The gardens of the Moorish palace in Andalusia. Website | | 54. | Spain | The Patios of Córdoba | Private courtyard gardens, opened to the public in May each year, in the annual Festival de los Patios Cordobeses. Website | | 55. | Spain | Casa Caruncho, Madrid | The private garden of Spanish landscape gardener, Fernando Caruncho. Website | [edit] South Africa | # | Country | Garden | Notes | | 56. | South Africa | Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town | A botanic garden on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain. Website | | 57. | South Africa | Henk Scholtz's garden, Franschhoek near Cape Town | | | 58. | South Africa | The Company Garden, Cape Town | Originally created to provide fresh food to passing ships, using water from natural springs; now a city park. | | 59. | South Africa | Stellenberg, Kenilworth, Cape Town | | | 60. | South Africa | Donovan's L'il Eden, Hout Bay, Cape Town | A garden in a Cape squatter camp. | | 61. | South Africa | Kirklington, Ficksburg, Free State | A 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 Africa | The Savanna Rock Garden, Magaliesberg, Johannesburg | A rock garden created by a married couple (one a sculptor, the other an artist). | | 63. | South Africa | Brenthurst Gardens, Parktown, Johannesburg | The garden of Strilli Oppenheimer. Website | | 64. | South Africa | Thuthuka School Garden, Tembisa Township near Johannesburg | A garden in a township school. | [edit] Northern Europe | # | Country | Garden | Notes | | 65. | UK | Rousham Park, Oxfordshire | Perhaps the first English landscape garden, created by William Kent in the early 18th century. Website | | 66. | UK | Sissinghurst Castle, Kent | 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. | France | Chateau Villandry, The Loire Valley | Acres of parterre and box hedge, recreated in the 20th century. Website | | 68. | France | Claude Monet's Garden, Giverny | Obsessively painted by Monet; now receiving over half a million visitors each year. Website | | 69. | Belgium | Jacques Wirtz's Garden, Schoten, Antwerp | The private garden of Belgian landscape artist Jacques Wirtz, including his trademark "cloud" box hedges. Website | | 70. | Netherlands | Het Loo Palace, Apeldoorn | The Baroque Dutch garden of William and Mary, 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. | Netherlands | The Boon Family Garden, Oostzaan, Amsterdam | An example of a small modern domestic garden, designed by Piet Oudolf for Dutch architect Piet Boon. | | 72. | Norway | The Arctic Alpine Botanic Gardens, Tromso | The northernmost botanic garden in the world, 200 miles (320 km) inside the Arctic Circle. Website | [edit] South-East Asia | # | Country | Garden | Notes | | 73. | Thailand | Jim Thompson's Garden, Bangkok | A jungle garden created by American Office of Strategic Services agent and silk merchant, Jim Thompson. Website | | 74. | Thailand | The Grand Palace, Bangkok | Official residence of the King of Thailand. Website (Monty Don also visited the agricultural research fields at the Chitlada Palace.) | | 75. | Thailand | The Klong Gardens, Bangkok | The private gardens that line the canals of Bangkok. | | 76. | Singapore | The City in a Garden | 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. | Singapore | Wilson Wong's Community Garden | An urban vegetable garden created as a community project. | | 78. | Indonesia | Pura Taman Ayun, Mengwi, Bali | A 17th-century Hindu temple ("Taman Ayun" is Balinese for "beautiful garden"). | | 79. | Indonesia | Traditional Home Compound, Ubud, Bali | A typical Balinese private household. | | 80. | Indonesia | Villa Bebek, Sanur, Bali | A modern Balinese garden, designed by Australian Made Wijaya (Michael White). Website | [edit] References [edit] Bibliography [edit] External links |
