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2008 TV series or program
Around the World in 80 Gardens 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 onBBC 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 toJules Verne 's novelAround the World in Eighty Days
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Mexico The Floating Gardens,Xochimilco ,Mexico City
Thechinampas ofLake Xochimilco ,floating vegetable gardens dating back beforeAztec times.
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Mexico The Gardens ofLuis Barragán :Casa de Luis Barragán ,Casa Prieto López andCasa Antonio Gálvez
Gardens created by leading Mexican architect,Luis Barragán ,inMexico City .Website of the Barragan Foundation
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Mexico The Ethno-Botanical Garden ,Oaxaca A new botanic garden containing the region's many species ofcactus ,built alongside theSanto Domingo Cultural Center ,formerly a monastery, on a site originally slated for development as a hotel.Website
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Mexico Las Pozas ,Xilitla A surreal collection of jungle plants and concrete follies created in a former coffee plantation by EnglishmanEdward James in theSierra Madre Oriental .Website
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Cuba Alberto's Huerto,Havana
An urban vegetable garden in the space left by a collapsed building.
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Cuba ViveroOrganopónico Alamar ,Havana
A large urban collectiveorganic market garden (Organopónico
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Cuba Maria's Garden,Havana
A small urban flower garden.
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Australia TheRoyal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
Botanic gardens aroundFarm Cove at the centre ofSydney ,on the site of a grain farm established by the first European settlers in 1788.Website
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Australia Kennerton Green ,Mittagong ,New South Wales A colonial-style garden with European planting in the hills near Sydney.
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Australia The Sitta Garden,Sydney
A modern garden designed byVladimir Sitta ,including native plants and large slabs of red rock from central Australia.
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Australia Alice Springs Desert Park ,Northern Territory A park nearAlice Springs recreating the habitats for desert plants across central Australia.Website
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Australia Cruden Farm ,Langwarrin ,Melbourne Gardened continuously byDame Elisabeth Murdoch since the 1920s.[ 1]
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Australia The Garden Vineyard,Moorooduc ,Melbourne
A European-style garden on theMornington Peninsula ,replacing European planting with Australian natives.Website
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New Zealand Ayrlies Garden ,Auckland A 12-acre (49,000 m2 ) country garden created since 1964 in a paddock east ofAuckland byBeverley McConnell .Website
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New Zealand Te Kainga Marire ,New Plymouth A domestic city garden of native New Zealand plants. Its name isMāori for "the peaceful encampment".Website
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India Taj Mahal and theMehtab Bagh ,Agra Website ,Garden Visit review .[p]
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India Akbar's Tomb ,Sikandra
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India The Monsoon Garden ,Deeg Gardens of theDeeg Palace .Garden Visit review
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India Jal Mahal ,Jaipur
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India Hindu Temple Shrine Garden,Jaipur
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India Mr Abraham's Spice Garden,Thekkady ,Kerala
An organicspice garden.Website
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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
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India The Rock Garden ,Chandigarh A sculpture garden created illegally by transport officialNek 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 Archived 15 June 2011 at theWayback 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.
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United States LongHouse Reserve ,East Hampton ,New York TheLong Island gardens housingJack Lenor Larsen 's sculpture collection.Website
United States Central Park
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United States Gantry Plaza State Park ,New York A garden atHunters Point inQueens ,beside historic ship-loading gantries on theEast River .Designed byThomas Balsley .Website
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United States Liz Christy Garden ,Manhattan ,New York The first community garden in New York City, founded in 1973 by local residentLiz Christy on a vacant lot on the corner ofBowery andHouston Street .Website
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United States James Van Sweden 's garden atFerry Cove ,Chesapeake Bay ,Maryland A modern garden of grasses, melting into the surrounding landscape.
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United States Monticello ,Charlottesville ,Virginia The garden of the author of the USDeclaration of Independence and thirdPresident of the United States ,Thomas Jefferson .Website [a]
United States Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
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United States TheHuntington Botanic Garden ,San Marino ,California
A 120-acre (0.49 km2 ) botanic garden around theHuntington Library ,laid out in the early 20th century.Website
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United States Lotusland ,Montecito ,Santa Barbara, California The gardens ofopera singer MadameGanna Walska .Website [a]
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United States Roland Emmerich 's Garden,Hollywood ,California An instant mature garden for theHollywood director and producer, with tallpalm trees installed to provide privacy.
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United States The Greenberg Garden,Brentwood ,Los Angeles
Designed byMia Lehrer .
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China TheHumble Administrator's Garden ,Suzhou
16th-century garden, with many pavilions, island, pools and bridges.
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China TheLion Grove ,Suzhou
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China TheImperial 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.
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Japan Ryoan-ji Temple ,Kyoto Famouskaresansui rock garden .Part of theWorld Heritage Site .Website
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Japan Issidan ,Ryogen-in Temple ,Kyoto Large Japanese rock garden.
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Japan Totekiko ,Ryogen-in Temple ,Kyoto Small Japanese rock garden.
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Japan Urasenke Tea Garden ,Kyoto Tea room built bySen Sōtan .Website
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Japan Tofuku-ji Temple Garden,Kyoto Designed byMirei Shigemori in the 1930s, including a moss garden andJapanese maples .Website
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Italy Villa d'Este ,Tivoli A spectacularRenaissance garden with many fountains.Website Archived 22 July 2011 at theWayback Machine [i]
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Italy Villa Adriana ,Tivoli The remains of the garden set out forRoman Emperor Hadrian around his palace.[i]
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Italy Elio's vineyard,Tivoli
A private fruit and vegetable garden.
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Italy Villa Lante ,Bagnaia A 16th-centuryMannerist gardens of surprises.
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Morocco TheAguedal ,Marrakech
Royal vegetable gardens dating to the 12th century, irrigated with water from theOurika valley, with water stored in large central cisterns.Garden Visit review [p]
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Morocco TheMajorelle ,Marrakech
The botanical garden created by French artistJacques Majorelle in 1924, and restored byYves Saint Laurent andPierre Bergé in the 1980s.Website
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Spain TheAlhambra andGeneralife ,Granada
The gardens of the Moorish palace inAndalusia .Website [p]
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Spain ThePatios ofCórdoba
Private courtyard gardens, opened to the public in May each year, in the annualCourtyards Festival of Cordoba [es ] .Website Tourism Information
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Spain Casa Caruncho,Madrid
The private garden of Spanish landscape gardener,Fernando Caruncho .Website
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South Africa Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden ,Cape Town A botanic garden on the eastern slopes ofTable Mountain .Website
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South Africa Henk Scholtz 's garden,Franschhoek near Cape Town
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South Africa TheCompany's Garden ,Cape Town
Originally created to provide fresh food to passing ships, using water from natural springs; now a city park.
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South Africa Stellenberg ,Kenilworth, Cape Town
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South Africa Donovan's L'il Eden,Hout Bay ,Cape Town
A garden in a Capesquatter camp .
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South Africa Kirklington,Ficksburg ,Free State
A garden established in the first half of the 20th century by English expatriateEdward Tudor Boddam-Whetham and his wifeRuby Newberry ,daughter ofCharles Newberry .It makes careful management of scarce water resources, and is named after Edward's ancestral home,Kirklington Hall inNottinghamshire .Photos
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South Africa The Savanna Rock Garden,Magaliesberg ,Johannesburg
A rock garden created by a married couple (one a sculptor, the other an artist).
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South Africa Brenthurst Gardens ,Parktown ,Johannesburg The garden of Strilli Oppenheimer, wife ofNicky Oppenheimer .Website
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South Africa Thuthuka School Garden,Tembisa Township nearJohannesburg
A garden in a township school.
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UK Rousham Park ,Oxfordshire Perhaps the first English landscape garden, created byWilliam Kent in the early 18th century.Website
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UK Sissinghurst Castle ,Kent Influential English garden created in the 1930s byVita Sackville-West and her husbandHarold Nicolson ;owned by theNational Trust since 1967.Website
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France Chateau Villandry ,TheLoire ValleyAcres of parterre and box hedge, recreated in the 20th century.Website
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France Claude Monet 's Garden,Giverny Obsessively painted by Monet; now receiving over half a million visitors each year.Website
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Belgium Jacques Wirtz 's Garden,Schoten ,Antwerp The private garden of Belgian landscape artistJacques Wirtz ,including his trademark "cloud"box hedges.Website
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Netherlands Het Loo Palace,Apeldoorn TheBaroque Dutch garden ofWilliam III andMary II ,originally designed byClaude 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
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Netherlands The Boon Family Garden,Oostzaan ,Amsterdam
An example of a small modern domestic garden, designed byPiet Oudolf for Dutch architect Piet Boon.
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Norway TheArctic Alpine Botanic Gardens ,Tromsø
The northernmostbotanic garden in the world, 200 miles (320 km) inside theArctic Circle .Website
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Thailand Jim Thompson's Garden ,Bangkok A jungle garden created by AmericanOffice of Strategic Services agent andsilk merchant,Jim Thompson .Website
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Thailand TheGrand Palace ,Bangkok
Official residence of theKing of Thailand .Website (Monty Don also visited the agricultural research fields at theChitlada Palace .)
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Thailand TheKlong Gardens,Bangkok
Don visits one of the private gardens that line the canals of Bangkok, accompanied by actressPatravadi Mejudhon .
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Singapore The City in a Garden The landscaping fulfilling the vision of former Prime MinisterLee Kuan Yew ,to soften the harshness of urban life by clothing Singapore in green.Singapore National Parks website
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Singapore Wilson Wong's Community Garden
An urban vegetable garden created as a community project.
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Indonesia Pura Taman Ayun ,Mengwi ,Bali A 17th-centuryHindu temple ( "Taman Ayun" isBalinese for "beautiful garden" ). Don also visited the Denpasar night Market.
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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
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Indonesia Villa Bebek ,Sanur ,Bali A modern Balinese garden, designed by AustralianMade Wijaya (Michael White).Website
References and Notes [ edit ] a.a1 a2 Monty Don's American Gardens
i.i1 i2 Monty Don's Italian Gardens
p.p1 p2 p3 Monty Don's Paradise Gardens 
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