Around the World in 80 Gardens
# Country Garden Notes
8 Australia The Royal Botanic Gardens , Sydney Botanic gardens around Farm Cove at the centre of Sydney , on the site of a grain farm established by the first European settlers in 1788 . Website
9 Australia Kennerton Green , Mittagong , New South Wales A colonial-style garden with European planting in the hills near Sydney
10 Australia The Sitta Garden , Sydney A modern garden designed by Vladimir Sitta , including native plants and large slabs of red rock from central Australia
11 Australia Alice Springs Desert Park , Northern Territory A park near Alice Springs recreating the habitats for desert plants across central Australia . Website
12 Australia Cruden Farm , Langwarrin , Melbourne Gardened continuously by Dame Elisabeth Murdoch since the 1920s
13 Australia The Garden Vineyard , Moorooduc , Melbourne A European-style garden on the Mornington Peninsula , replacing European planting with Australian natives . Website
14 New Zealand Ayrlies Garden , Auckland A 12-acre ( 49,000 m ) country garden created since 1964 in a paddock east of Auckland by Beverley McConnell . Website
15 New Zealand Te Kainga Marire , New Plymouth A domestic city garden of native New Zealand plants . Its name is Māori for the peaceful encampment . Website
Australia and New Zealand
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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.