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.

Around the World in 80 Gardens

Mexico & Cuba

Australia & New Zealand

Starting with Botany Bay...

Around the World in 80 Gardens

India

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.

Around the World in 80 Gardens

South America

United States of America

China & Japan

The Mediterranean

South Africa

Northern Europe

South East Asia

References and Notes

a.Revisited in Monty Don's American Gardens

i.Revisited in Monty Don's Italian Gardens

p.Revisited in Monty Don's Paradise Gardens

See also

Monty Don's Italian Gardens

Monty Don's French Gardens

Monty Don's Paradise Gardens

External links

Review in The Daily Telegraph, 26 January 2008

2008 British television series debuts

2008 British television series endings

2000s British documentary television series

BBC television documentaries

Gardening lists

Gardens

Gardening television

Garden design history

Gardening in the United Kingdom

2000s British travel television series

Television episodes set in Mexico

Television episodes set in Cuba

Television episodes set in Australia

Television episodes set in New Zealand

Television episodes set in Brazil

Television episodes set in Argentina

Television episodes set in Chile

Television episodes set in the United States

Television episodes set in China

Television episodes set in Japan

Television episodes set in Belgium

Television episodes set in the Netherlands

Television episodes set in France

Television episodes set in Italy

Television episodes set in Morocco

Television episodes set in Spain

Television episodes set in South Africa

Television episodes set in Thailand

Television episodes set in Singapore

Television episodes set in Indonesia

Japan in non-Japanese culture