Monty Don continues his search for the meaning of paradise gardens across Istanbul, India, and Britain. From Ottoman tulips and the Topkapi Palace to Humayun’s Tomb, the Taj Mahal, Mughal…
Monty Don travels across the western United States to discover how desert, glamour, technology, forests, and frontier spirit shape its gardens. From Arizona’s cacti and Palm Springs modernism to Beverly…
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…
Monty Don travels through London and the South East to uncover how gardens survive, adapt, and inspire in Britain’s busiest corner. From George Harrison’s magical Friar Park and Gertrude Jekyll’s…
Monty Don crosses the heart of Britain, uncovering a garden with a Victorian rockery hiding a gnome now worth a fortune, and another so obsessively grand it drove its creator…
Monty Don travels through France to uncover the powerful connection between gardens, art, light, and landscape. From Monet’s water garden at Giverny and Cézanne’s Provence to a cubist garden, lavender…
Monty Don travels through France to uncover how gardens became symbols of power, romance, revolution, and national identity. From Diane de Poitiers and Catherine de Medici at Chenonceau to Vaux…
Monty Don uncovers the dramatic story behind Italy’s greatest Renaissance and Baroque gardens. From Villa Farnese and Hadrian’s Villa to Villa d’Este, Bomarzo, and Villa Aldobrandini, he explores how cardinals…
Monty Don travels across northern Spain to uncover a very different side of the country’s gardens. From Santiago de Compostela and Galicia’s grand estates to a moved garden in Asturias,…
Monty Don reaches Greece for the final chapter of his Adriatic garden journey, where beauty has to survive heat, drought, rock, and history. From Corfu’s Venetian olive groves and wildflower…