Monty Don's French Gardens - Season 1 (2013)

In this three-part series, acclaimed garden writer and presenter Monty Don travels through France taking the viewer on a horticultural journey through some of the country’s most exquisite gardens. Passionate, volatile, extravagant – yet fastidious and fussy. This view of the contradictory French is borne out in their gardens – often lavish, but almost puritanical in their lines and colours; wildly overblown, but without a flower out of place. Each episode looks at a different aspect of French life – royal heritage, food, art and landscape – from the perspective of the garden. From Versailles to vineyard gardens, from the roof gardens of Paris to Monet’s Garden, Monty takes us on a tour to find out what makes French gardens unique.