America’s southern gardens are beautiful, ambitious, and inseparable from the complex history that shaped them. Monty Don travels from Washington DC and Jefferson’s Monticello to Bunny Mellon’s Oak Spring, Charleston’s plantation gardens, Miami’s Vizcaya, Florida’s orchid swamps, the Kampong, and New Orleans’ historic gardens. Along the way, he explores how landscape, slavery, wealth, climate, plant hunting, hurricanes, and cultural identity all shaped the gardens of the American South.