Monty Don's Adriatic Gardens
British garden enthusiast Monty Don takes a journey of the gardens of the Adriatic. He centers this tour on Venice, which for centuries has been the commercial center of the region, although he realizes that gardens are not what one generally thinks of when talking about Venice. He then follows the historic Venetian trade route down the east coast of the Adriatic Sea. He finds that after half a century of Communist rule, its associated poverty, and the destructive Balkan Wars of the 1990s, the populace of Croatia is still trying to find its footing with regard to gardening, and not just thinking about using arable land to grow food, a necessity during those times of poverty. His final stop is Greece, where the harsh and ever harsher climate due to climate change will factor into how Grecians garden in the twenty-first century and beyond.
- 2022-2022
- 1 season
- Documentary
British garden enthusiast Monty Don takes a journey of the gardens of the Adriatic. He centers this tour on Venice, which for centuries has been the commercial center of the region, although he realizes that gardens are not what one generally thinks of when talking about Venice. He then follows the historic Venetian trade route down the east coast of the Adriatic Sea. He finds that after half a century of Communist rule, its associated poverty, and the destructive Balkan Wars of the 1990s, the populace of Croatia is still trying to find its footing with regard to gardening, and not just thinking about using arable land to grow food, a necessity during those times of poverty. His final stop is Greece, where the harsh and ever harsher climate due to climate change will factor into how Grecians garden in the twenty-first century and beyond.
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Season 1 Episode Guide
Episode 1
Venice
59 mins
In traveling to Venice, Monty does what he realizes most tourists don't do, namely visit their gardens which most tourists probably don't even know exist in most of them hidden gems behind tall stone walls not visible to the public. With the exception of one garden in Padua, all the gardens he visits are located in the central part of the city. While many of them contain traditional Italian Renaissance elements, most of them are relatively new by European standards. One of the few things unique to Venice as opposed to the rest of the country is the city being located in a salt water lagoon, hence many of the gardens needing to contain salt tolerate plants. In that vein, he visits a few gardens that were hit hard by the flood of 2019, the second worst flood in the city's history, he however, unable to notice any damage in not knowing what those gardens looked like before the flood. The other, also related to water, is everything needed to be transported via the canals. As such, he watches a parks crew prune some large trees, the debris, which must be transported out of the city via the canals, and visits a nursery which in turn must bring in all its inventory via the canals.
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