Name: Monty Don's Secret History of the British Garden
Uploaded: 2024-10-25T19:00:42.000Z
Description: World-famous gardener and horticultural expert Monty Don explores the stories behind four of the country's most important gardens, unpacking their fascinating secrets to reveal how the British garden has evolved over the past 400 years.

World-famous gardener and horticultural expert Monty Don explores the stories behind four of the country's most important gardens, unpacking their fascinating secrets to reveal how the British garden has evolved over the past 400 years.

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Monty Don uncovers the extraordinary stories behind Britain's seventeenth century gardens. Starting his journey at the sole surviving garden of the 1600s, Levens Hall in Cumbria.

Episode 1: The 17th Century

On his journey through four hundred years of Britain's garden history, Monty Don arrives in the eighteenth century, an age that gave rise to the landscape garden, created on a scale that had never been seen before.

Episode 2: The 18th Century

Monty Don explores the extraordinary transformations that occurred in garden design throughout the 19th century. An expanding empire, scientific and technological innovation and social change, made British gardens more exotic than ever before.

Episode 3: The 19th Century

Monty Don concludes his journey through Britain's gardening heritage by looking at how the nation's gardens have evolved over the last hundred years. He looks at the profound effect that two world wars had on our attitude to gardens and gardening.

Monty Don's Secret History of the British Garden

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