After presenting numerous series travelling around the world looking at gardens in other countries, this time Monty Don travels around the UK to learn what gardens can reveal about the country's people, climate and history.
Monty Don embarks on a journey across Spain, covering more than 4,000 kilometres to visit some of its most interesting gardens, community projects and parks in order to get under the skin of the country.
Monty explores the influence of the Venetians on gardening, starting in their home city at the top of the Adriatic coast and travelling on through Croatia and Greece, visiting a range of public and private gardens.
Horticulture aficionado Monty Don explores the history, customs and wonders of the Japanese gardens as well as what they mean to the Japanese and what role they play in the complex Japanese culture.
Monty Don travels the Islamic world and beyond from Morocco to India in search of Paradise Gardens celebrated in the Koran and uncovers the influence they've had back home.
Monty Don travels across America to explore whether there is such thing as an American garden. Monty begins his journey in a prairie, the original American flowering wilderness.
Monty goes south to explore gardens of early independent America and learns how the history of this part of the country is still very much evident in the places and people he meets.
In this final programme, Monty explores the extraordinary scenery of the west coast of America from cacti in Arizona to a tropical get away in Seattle.
Monty Don explores paradise gardens in grand Spanish palaces and secret Moroccan courtyards. And in the Iranian desert, Monty unravels the mystery to their creation.
Having mastered their basic building blocks in Spain, Morocco and Iran, Monty Don sets out to explore the wide variety of gardens offering a slightly different vision of paradise.
Monty explores Venice by barge, stepping out to visit green spaces large and small, including gardens along the Grand Canal and in a disused rubbish dump.
Beginning in Trieste, Monty heads down the Croatian coast in the footsteps of the Venetians. He visits a public garden created by an obsessive plantsman and is given a tour of ancient olive groves.
Monty travels from Corfu, which possesses strong Venetian links, to the Greek capital of Athens, where he visits a reforestation project and two spectacular modern gardens.
Monty bases himself at Rousham House in Oxfordshire, designed by one of the first practitioners of the landscape movement, William Kent. It has survived almost unchanged since its completion in 1741.
Monty Don explores the 19th century. As a result of an expanding empire, scientific and technological innovation and social change, British gardens became more exotic, more colourful and more accessible than ever before.
Monty visits spectacular gardens in the central region of Spain from its important historic Imperial Palaces and modern designs adapted to the challenges of climate change.
Monty Don is in the south of Spain visiting gardens that show how this part of the country has evolved thanks to influences from visitors and settlers from ancient to modern times.
Monty Don travels across the north of Spain visiting gardens across this vast and diverse landscape that changes from Atlantic to Mediterranean as he journeys from Galicia to Catalonia.
