Monty Don concludes his garden tour of Italy in the wealthy North where in the Veneto and Lucca, extravagant pleasure gardens were created for flirtation and fun. Further north in the Lakes, Monty meets up with the garden society, the Grandi Giardini Italiani, to peer over the fence of luxurious creations of the rich and famous. The journey ends on Lake Maggiore to see the most theatrical, horticultural gem of Italy.
Monty Don begins his quest for the secrets of paradise gardens in Spain, where he discovers their basic building blocks. In Morocco, he sees a wide variety of paradise gardens, from an enormous royal walled meadow to a secret inner-city courtyard. And in the Iranian desert, he uncovers the myster...
Monty explores the different visions of paradise gardens created by other cultures. In Istanbul, he marvels at sacred tulips and delights in nature at the gardens of the Ottoman Empire. In India he discovers the spirituality of tomb gardens, and then back in the UK, he reveals the surprising infl...
