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Around the World in 80 Gardens
British gardening enthusiast Monty Don believes that the best way to understand a culture is to visit its gardens. As such, he travels around the world visiting eighty gardens, some public, famous and iconic, and others private, mostly unknown but no less fascinating. Some of these gardens challenge his notion of the term garden, whether it be as a noun or a verb. Along the way, he speaks to many gardeners, landscapers and garden designers to learn the history, present and future of the gardens and sometimes of the culture in which they exist.
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Episode 1
Mexico and Cuba
59 mins
Monty visits Mexico, starting with floating gardens, the heritage of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan and even older Precolumbian cultures. Next the non-planted, partly vertical gardens of Luis Barragan, and eccentric Englishman James Edward's staggeringly vast and inspired surreal garden in the jungle. In Cuba, Monty concentrates on productive, communal city gardens in Havana, the surprisingly efficient post-soviet way to supply their own food and medicines.
