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 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.
Mexico and Cuba
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. |
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. |
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. |
14. | New Zealand | Ayrlies Garden, Auckland | A country garden created since 1964 in a paddock east of Auckland by Beverley McConnell. |
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". |