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...
#CountryGardenNotes
8. AustraliaThe Royal Botanic Gardens, SydneyBotanic 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. AustraliaKennerton Green, Mittagong, New South WalesA colonial-style garden with European planting in the hills near Sydney.
10. AustraliaThe Sitta Garden, SydneyA modern garden designed by Vladimir Sitta, including native plants and large slabs of red rock from central Australia.
11. AustraliaAlice Springs Desert Park, Northern TerritoryA park near Alice Springs recreating the habitats for desert plants across central Australia.
12. AustraliaCruden Farm, Langwarrin, MelbourneGardened continuously by Dame Elisabeth Murdoch since the 1920s.
13. AustraliaThe Garden Vineyard, Moorooduc, MelbourneA European-style garden on the Mornington Peninsula, replacing European planting with Australian natives.
14. New ZealandAyrlies Garden, AucklandA country garden created since 1964 in a paddock east of Auckland by Beverley McConnell.
15. New ZealandTe Kainga Marire, New PlymouthA domestic city garden of native New Zealand plants. Its name is Māori for "the peaceful encampment".

India

In addition to the Old Railway Garden, Don also featured the surrounding "tea gardens". He expressly did not count it as one out of the eighty, however.

South America

United States of America

China and Japan

Mediterranean

South Africa

Northern Europe

South-East Asia