# 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 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. | 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 Barragán, 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. |

## Australia & 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. |
| 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 (49,000 m$^2$) 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 Māori for "the peaceful encampment". Website |

## India

| # | 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 Garden, Deeg | Gardens of the Deeg Palace. 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 | 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. | India | The Rock Garden, Chandigarh | 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 m$^2$), it is completely built of industrial & home waste and thrown-away items. Website Archived 15 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine |
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

| # | Country | Garden | Notes |
| 24. | Brazil | Burle Marx's Copacabana Promenade, Rio de Janeiro | |
| 25. | Brazil | Garden of the Sítio Roberto Burle Marx, Rio de Janeiro | |
| 26. | Brazil | The Floating Gardens, The Amazon River | The locals live in floating houses on the river, and they grow vegetables and medicinal plants in small barges attached to their houses |
| 27. | Brazil | Bacu's Forest Garden, The Amazon | |
| 28. | Argentina | Carlos Thays's garden at Estancia Dos Talas, Dolores, Buenos Aires, in The Pampas | 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 |
| 29. | Chile | The private garden of Chilean landscape architect Juan Grimm at Bahia Azul, Los Vilos | |

## United States of America

| # | Country | Garden | Notes |
| 30. | United States | LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, New York | The Long Island gardens housing Jack Lenor Larsen's sculpture collection. Website |
| | United States | Central Park, New York |
| 31. | United States | Gantry Plaza State Park, New York | A garden at Hunters Point in Queens, beside historic ship-loading gantries on the East River. Designed by Thomas Balsley. Website |
| 32. | United States | 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. | United States | James Van Sweden's garden at Ferry Cove, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland | A modern garden of grasses, melting into the surrounding landscape. |
| 34. | United States | Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia | The garden of the author of the US Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. Website |
| | United States | Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Kansas |
| 35. | United States | The Huntington Botanic Garden, San Marino, California | A 120-acre (0.49 km$^2$) botanic garden around the Huntington Library, laid out in the early 20th century. Website |
| 36. | United States | Lotusland, Montecito, Santa Barbara, California | The gardens of opera singer Madame Ganna Walska. Website |
| 37. | United States | 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. | United States | The Greenberg Garden, Brentwood, Los Angeles | Designed by Mia Lehrer. |

## China & 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 km$^2$, 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 |

## The Mediterranean

| # | Country | Garden | Notes |
| 47. | Italy | Villa d'Este, Tivoli | A spectacular Renaissance garden with many fountains. Website Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine |
| 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 Courtyards Festival of Cordoba [es]. WebsiteTourism Information |
| 55. | Spain | Casa Caruncho, Madrid | The private garden of Spanish landscape gardener, Fernando Caruncho. Website |

## 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's 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 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. | 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, wife of Nicky Oppenheimer. Website |
| 64. | South Africa | Thuthuka School Garden, Tembisa Township near Johannesburg | A garden in a township school. |

## 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 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. | 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, Tromsø | The northernmost botanic garden in the world, 200 miles (320 km) inside the Arctic Circle. Website |

## 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 | Don visits one of the private gardens that line the canals of Bangkok, accompanied by actress Patravadi Mejudhon. |
| 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"). Don also visited the Denpasar night Market. |
| 79. | Indonesia | Traditional Home Compound, Ubud, Bali | A typical Balinese private household. Don also visited Villa Batujimbar, luxury resort visited by Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall |
| 80. | Indonesia | Villa Bebek, Sanur, Bali | A modern Balinese garden, designed by Australian Made Wijaya (Michael White). Website |

## References and Notes

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    i.$^{i1}$ $^{i2}$ Revisited in Monty Don's Italian Gardens
    p.$^{p1}$ $^{p2}$ $^{p3}$ Revisited in Monty Don's Paradise Gardens
* ↑ "Gardening Australia – Fact Sheet: Dame Elisabeth Murdoch". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 25 January 2008. Retrieved 6 April 2008.