27 January (2008-01-27) – 30 March 2008 (2008-03-30)
Around the World in 80 Gardens is a television series of 10 programmes in which British gardener and broadcaster
Monty Don visits 80 of the world's most celebrated gardens. The series was filmed over a period of 18 months and was first broadcast on
BBC Two at 9pm on successive Sundays from 27 January to 30 March 2008. A book based on the series was also published.
A new botanic garden containing the region's many species of
cactus, built alongside the
Santo Domingo Cultural Center, formerly a monastery, on a site originally slated for development as a hotel.
Website
A surreal collection of jungle plants and concrete follies created in a former coffee plantation by Englishman
Edward James in the
Sierra Madre Oriental.
Website
The garden is maintained by the Kanan Devan Hill Plantations Company. The company is South India's biggest Tea producer and exporter and is also the first ever employee owned plantation company in India.
Tea Purchase WebsiteCompany Website
A sculpture garden created illegally by transport official
Nek Chand who started the garden secretly in his spare time in 1957. Today it is spread over an area of forty-acres (160,000 m2), it is completely built of industrial & home waste and thrown-away items.
WebsiteArchived 15 June 2011 at the
Wayback Machine
In addition to the Old Railway Garden, Don also featured the surrounding "tea gardens" (tea plantations). He expressly did not count it as one out of the eighty, however.
The first community garden in New York City, founded in 1973 by local resident
Liz Christy on a vacant lot on the corner of
Bowery and
Houston Street.
Website
Royal vegetable gardens dating to the 12th century, irrigated with water from the
Ourika valley, with water stored in large central cisterns.
Garden Visit review[p]
The
Baroque Dutch garden of
William III and
Mary II, originally designed by
Claude Desgotz in the 1680s but replaced by an English landscape garden in the 18th century; restored from 1970 to 1984 to its appearance in 1700.
Website
The landscaping fulfilling the vision of former Prime Minister
Lee Kuan Yew, to soften the harshness of urban life by clothing Singapore in green.
Singapore National Parks website
27 January (2008-01-27) – 30 March 2008 (2008-03-30)
Around the World in 80 Gardens is a television series of 10 programmes in which British gardener and broadcaster
Monty Don visits 80 of the world's most celebrated gardens. The series was filmed over a period of 18 months and was first broadcast on
BBC Two at 9pm on successive Sundays from 27 January to 30 March 2008. A book based on the series was also published.
A new botanic garden containing the region's many species of
cactus, built alongside the
Santo Domingo Cultural Center, formerly a monastery, on a site originally slated for development as a hotel.
Website
A surreal collection of jungle plants and concrete follies created in a former coffee plantation by Englishman
Edward James in the
Sierra Madre Oriental.
Website
The garden is maintained by the Kanan Devan Hill Plantations Company. The company is South India's biggest Tea producer and exporter and is also the first ever employee owned plantation company in India.
Tea Purchase WebsiteCompany Website
A sculpture garden created illegally by transport official
Nek Chand who started the garden secretly in his spare time in 1957. Today it is spread over an area of forty-acres (160,000 m2), it is completely built of industrial & home waste and thrown-away items.
WebsiteArchived 15 June 2011 at the
Wayback Machine
In addition to the Old Railway Garden, Don also featured the surrounding "tea gardens" (tea plantations). He expressly did not count it as one out of the eighty, however.
The first community garden in New York City, founded in 1973 by local resident
Liz Christy on a vacant lot on the corner of
Bowery and
Houston Street.
Website
Royal vegetable gardens dating to the 12th century, irrigated with water from the
Ourika valley, with water stored in large central cisterns.
Garden Visit review[p]
The
Baroque Dutch garden of
William III and
Mary II, originally designed by
Claude Desgotz in the 1680s but replaced by an English landscape garden in the 18th century; restored from 1970 to 1984 to its appearance in 1700.
Website
The landscaping fulfilling the vision of former Prime Minister
Lee Kuan Yew, to soften the harshness of urban life by clothing Singapore in green.
Singapore National Parks website