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Around the World in 80 Gardens
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Monty Don, host of the BBC-TV’s Gardener’s World and one of the United Kingdom’s most respected gardening writers, ventures far from home in this vivid account of gardens on all seven continents. Around the World in 80 Gardens visits the exotic floating gardens of the Amazon, magnificent Renaissance Italian water gardens, colorful alpine flower meadows in Norway, and Monet
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Hardcover, 288 pages
Published
August 5th 2008
by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
(first published August 1st 2008)
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A gentle, high level look at a few gardens to wet the appetite.
In 2008, British garden enthusiast Monty Don produced a TV series titled "Around the World in 80 Gardens" in which he featured 80 gardens in many countries on each of the six habited continents. This book documents this project. While one might assume that descriptions of gardens without accompanying photographs would leave the reader a little wanting, his descriptions more than make up for the limited number of photographs. In addition to describing the garden from a visual perspective, he desc
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This is a travelogue, probably a blast for Monty Don to write but a great disappointment for anyone looking for gardening inspiration. It is verbose while the photos are minimal and tiny. The text is about the history of the place, how it came to be, how it is managed... not how the gardens were designed or how the plantings have developed. Great for travelers who like to visit gardens, bad for gardeners who like to garden.
This is a nice book.
It's mostly pictures and descriptions of gardens. I'm new to the Monty Don world and wasn't sure what to expect. Some of the gardens are very big and famous and some are smaller. I was hoping for more information about the plants and creating beautiful gardens.
Overall it's a nice coffee table book but could have used more pictures. It also feels Euro-centric given what gardens he visited outside of Europe. It's an easy book to page through. ...more
It's mostly pictures and descriptions of gardens. I'm new to the Monty Don world and wasn't sure what to expect. Some of the gardens are very big and famous and some are smaller. I was hoping for more information about the plants and creating beautiful gardens.
Overall it's a nice coffee table book but could have used more pictures. It also feels Euro-centric given what gardens he visited outside of Europe. It's an easy book to page through. ...more
high level picture book of the BBC show. Each garden has about 4 pages, one of which was a full page color picture.
Coffee table book, you can flip through the pictures and read the entire thing in an afternoon.
Coffee table book, you can flip through the pictures and read the entire thing in an afternoon.
Lovely prose and pictures.
Really enjoyable collection of essays on some of the most interesting and notable gardens around the world. Travelling far and wide to the less obvious locations as well as some of the more obvious destinations. There will of course never be a definitive 'best' 80 gardens, and every reader will doubtless have some places they would have liked to see included (personally my choices might have included some bustans, monasteries or shrines of the Middle East. Plus maybe an island or two in some of
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The overall impression is he visited a lot of gardens which had a lot of money invested in them, but he did visit some much more modest gardens created with limited budgets which was refreshing. I think that he likes green gardens with well trimmed hedges.
This makes me want to work on my own garden more, even though I don't have much time for the garden. I'll have the winter to plan the garden properly for next year though.
Grow and buy local is the main message I got from this. Work with plants that I'm familiar with, like herbs. ...more
Grow and buy local is the main message I got from this. Work with plants that I'm familiar with, like herbs. ...more
Disappointed in the lack of photos of the gardens
Great book...wish there were more pics of the gardens...and less pics of the author.
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