Around the World in 80 Gardens
2008
📺 1 Season
🎬 10 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 60 min/episode
Documentary
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.
Seasons
Season 1
In 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
Cast
Network
BBC Two