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Around the World in 80 Gardens
2008 · TV series · documentary · 60 min episodes · 1 season
Around the World in 80 Gardens was a television series of 10 programmes in which British gardener and broadcaster Monty Don visited 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 and is a spiritual successor to Dan Cruickshank's earlier television series, Around the World in 80 Treasures, first broadcast in 2005.
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Monty Don's around the world in 80 gardens, is a great series that talks about this period, by taking you to some of the worlds most impressive gardens, from a time when gardens were meant to convey power and status and were play toys of the rich and full of one-upmanship.
Here's an episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iboabQkTXRk