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- Monty explores the influence of the Venetians on gardening, starting in their home city at the top of the Adriatic coast and travelling on through Croatia and Greece, visiting a range of public and private gardens.
- Monty Don visits some of the most famous and interesting gardens in France.
- The British horticulturalist takes a trip to the United States to visit some of the country's most famous and interesting gardens.
- Horticulture aficionado Monty Don explores the history, customs and wonders of the Japanese gardens as well as what they mean to the Japanese and what role they play in the complex Japanese culture.
- Monty Don travels the Islamic world and beyond from Morocco to India in search of Paradise Gardens celebrated in the Koran and uncovers the influence they've had back home.
- Monty Don explores the fascinating history and evolution of the British garden, from the seventeenth century through to the modern day. For Monty gardens are every bit as important as the buildings we live and work in and he sets out to show how we can learn as much about ourselves from them.NL
- Monty Don travels across America to explore whether there is such thing as an American garden. Monty begins his journey in a prairie, the original American flowering wilderness.
- Monty goes south to explore gardens of early independent America and learns how the history of this part of the country is still very much evident in the places and people he meets.
- In this final programme, Monty explores the extraordinary scenery of the west coast of America from cacti in Arizona to a tropical get away in Seattle.
- Monty Don explores paradise gardens in grand Spanish palaces and secret Moroccan courtyards. And in the Iranian desert, Monty unravels the mystery to their creation.
- Having mastered their basic building blocks in Spain, Morocco and Iran, Monty Don sets out to explore the wide variety of gardens offering a slightly different vision of paradise.
- Monty explores Venice by barge, stepping out to visit green spaces large and small, including gardens along the Grand Canal and in a disused rubbish dump.
- Beginning in Trieste, Monty heads down the Croatian coast in the footsteps of the Venetians. He visits a public garden created by an obsessive plantsman and is given a tour of ancient olive groves.
- Monty travels from Corfu, which possesses strong Venetian links, to the Greek capital of Athens, where he visits a reforestation project and two spectacular modern gardens.
- Month Don uncovers the extraordinary stories behind Britain's 17 th century gardens.
- The eighteenth century ushered in a new era of gardening in a move away from the formal to show man's control and power and in many cases his philosophy and religion in the previous century, to embracing nature. One such manifestation is the landscape garden, where vast expanses of grass were used as vistas to natural or in many cases man-created "natural features" such as lakes, creating as a whole an idealized view of the countryside. It served practical purposes in rather than human gardeners finely clipping and pruning, livestock often acted as mowers in grazing in the fields. In discussing this era, Monty highlights the works of garden designers William Kent, Lancelot "Capability" Brown, and Humphry Repton.
- The nineteenth century was marked by the introduction of the use imported plant species into gardens. The trend was the result largely of two people. The first is Joseph Banks, Director of Kew Gardens early in the century, he who transformed what was ostensibly a landscape garden typical of the previous century into a true botanical garden. While he himself was a plant hunter in traveling abroad to discover new plants, he spurred others to do the same. The second is Queen Victoria's consort Prince Albert, who took an active role in the plant selection, largely trees, for the gardens of which he had control. This trend was assisted by the industrial revolution of the era and the general want to find solutions for problems, including how to keep plants alive in their transportation from overseas, and how to cultivate non-native species in Britain, especially of what are considered tropical plants. These advances led to gardens accessible for the masses, both in terms of access through the creation of public parks and gardens, and writing about British gardening trends in inexpensive trade magazines.
- In his journey through time, Monty has reached the twentieth century. In a combination of industrialization and urbanization, what happened with British gardens was that they were being used as oases from the proverbial smoke and concrete of cities. While technology allowed the cultivation of a diversity of plants, including non-native ones, the focus on the botanical nature of the plants themselves in the nineteenth century gave way to the plants as a means of design, especially in the use of color, as gardens were treated as canvasses, often gardens designed as tableaux to present different pictures from a number of vantage points. Arguably, two items affected the development of the British garden the most during this century. The first is upheaval in the form of the two world wars, and the dispensation of the allotment gardens which were designed to be more utilitarian in the times of need than aesthetic. The second is the onset of the television age. While the allotment gardens brought gardening to the masses, most specifically the urban middle class, television showed them what they could do with their gardens.
- 2013–201758m7.9 (12)TV EpisodeMonty Don visits France's most interesting gardens. He reveals how the country's historic gardens were used as a public expression of power.
- Monty Don moves to the potager or kitchen gardens where vegetables and flowers are planted together in beautiful displays, a style that is copied the world over.Monty Don visits some of the most famous gardens in France. He turns to France's artistic tradition to see what influence it has had on the country's gardens.
- Monty Don visits some of the most famous gardens in France. He turns to France's artistic tradition to see what influence it has had on the country's gardens.
- Monty Don travels to Japan in Spring to trace the history of Japanese gardens from early boating gardens, through Buddhist temples and Zen gardens, right up to a modern tea house.
- Monty Don returns to Japan in Autumn to continue his journey through Japanese gardens. This time he explores both stroll gardens and how the Japanese bring nature into their modern lives.