Around the World in 80 Gardens
# Country Garden Notes
1 Mexico The Floating Gardens , Xochimilco , Mexico City The chinampas of Lake Xochimilco , floating vegetable gardens dating back before Aztec times
2 Mexico The Gardens of Luis Barragán : Casa de Luis Barragán , Casa Prieto López and Casa Antonio Gálvez Gardens created by leading Mexican architect , Luis Barragán , in Mexico City . Website of the Barragan Foundation
3 Mexico The Ethno-Botanical Garden , Oaxaca 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
4 Mexico Las Pozas , Xilitla 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
5 Cuba Alberto 's Huerto , Havana An urban vegetable garden in the space left by a collapsed building
6 Cuba Vivero Organopónico Alamar , Havana A large urban collective organic market garden ( Organopónico )
7 Cuba Maria 's Garden , Havana A small urban flower garden
Mexico and Cuba
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 9.00pm on successive Sundays from 27 January to 30 March 2008. A book based on the series was also published. The title of the series was a reference to Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days and is a spiritual successor to Dan Cruickshank's earlier television series, Around the World in 80 Treasures, first broadcast in 2005.