Monty’s enthusiasm for all things horticultural is infectious, civilized and ultimately humane. I so enjoy his informative programs.

You have softened my deep depression. I thank you so much

Wow...what a great explanation of the Muslim garden idea. THe philosophy of it. I live near the Colonial Spanish UNESCO World Heritage former capital of Central America: Antigua, Guatemala. Being an American expat retiree I loved the walled courtyards in the town...copied from Spain...My very first visit walking the cobblestone streets as a humble large door called a porton would open I would catch a glimpse of a fountain and rose filled courtyard as in southern Spain. It would surprise me every time how so simple a colonial exterior would hide such lushness. Several hotels are in large properties so the gardens are even more impressive. I was lucky to spend 6 mos here living with an upper class family in their home next to a famous church, La Merced. They had another family member who owned such a hotel so I went there for coffee often in the private quarters where they lived. I was lucky to have an introduction into local society that tourists do not get. I was charmed by the easeful life, the understated elegance of the homes and the tranquility of the gardens. I felt I had stepped back in time a century, or two or more. I simply HAD to live here! It is a small town limited by surrounding hil.s and volcanoes to 12 blocks by 12 blocks, ruined churches brought down by earthquakes to paint....heavenly. This was 20 years ago. In two years my husband and I had sold our sailboat we had retired on, bought a property not far outside the town with views of the surrounding volcanoes, expanded the house and made it more like the ones we saw in Sevillia and Granada, lovely tiled decor, added fountains and gardens of roses and tropical plants. THis place the town and our home has given us 20 years of exquisite joy in a perfect climate with great friends, locals and expats alike .We all entertain mostly in our gardens filled with hummingbirds and migrating species including our beloved painted buntings we had on St Simons Isllamd in Georgia, USA....And just as he says....one keeps the walls outside simple..ours are covered with bougainvillia, you come into the porton walk down a path and then there before you is a small paradise on earth with the sound of two courtyard fountains and the birds seranading you...atop two walls peek the tops of two volcanoes....one inactive and the other far enough away to be safe, is active, erupting lava down its slopes and into the air periodically. WE built a second level large terrace area ala espana and a small third level, one as a viewing terrace for that erupting volcano and to see the heavens.

As always..so understated in his enthusiasm..showing us the natural world of gardening that has survived the centuries...thankyou Monty..🌳

19:27 The white doves are flying through the waterfall to cool off. I love watching this.

FOr anyone who loves the Alhambra as I do AND Spain and Spanish history SEE the 3 season progam produced in Spain "Isabelle" about Isabel and Ferdinand , to see the Alhambra dressed in silk cushions funrnishings... transformed to a true paradise as it WAS! The series is the best on these subjects ever made...English subtitles!

Villa d’Este and Villa Lante are just stunning. Truly a thing of beauty is a joy forever. I can imagine the parties held there, laughter tinkling above the gurgling fountains, a cool breeze wafting over the flowing water, warm rays of sun sparkling on the rippling surface. I could spend ages just sitting there enjoying the beauty of it - God’s creation and man’s creation in perfect harmony. Perhaps someday I can see it in person.

My 17 year old loves this stuff. he is already working during the summers at a botanical garden nearby. The woman that runs the place is a Harvard biology professor. She is teaching him all kinds of things. Boy the gardens he could have a future with all over the world.

@veronicaashby5645

7 жыл бұрын

QueenFanPiper62 .

@ishtarishaya

6 жыл бұрын

Wonderful! I can vouch for the loveliness of the profession! It sounds like your son is off to truly auspicious start.

@77777aol

5 жыл бұрын

QueenFanPiper62 : And one day, his own off-spring will declare, 'I didn't lick it off a stone !'

@arlenehutchinson9259

5 жыл бұрын

What is he doing now??

@valeria-militiamessalina5672

4 жыл бұрын

“She is teaching him all kinds of things..” unfortunate phrasing

OMG 😯 j’adore ça au Maroc les constructions et ses jardins à l’intérieur de leurs maisons,pouvoir profiter de la nature sans sortir de la maison

Awww Tarifa!!! I adore Morocco and Tarifa is little Maroc. Adorable.

@RVBadlands2015

3 жыл бұрын

I would love to go there.

The Patio gardens are precious beauties 😍😍

Really enjoyed this show! Very well orchestrated!

Most beautiful garden in the world. I agree!

Monty Don is my new favorite "documentary blogger" and a day without his movies is not a good day. Keep up the great work, Monty! Laura

@nsr5961

4 жыл бұрын

LAURA A LOVELAND imitation gardens and pretty indeed, but to imagine the garden of Eden. These wouldn’t compare. Paradise was lost and now all we have are remnants of this lost paradise. I’ve seen pictures of the garden of Ninfa in Italy. It’s also very pretty.

@MTMF.london

4 жыл бұрын

@Ted Carruthers He is not doing any self-publicity nonsense. He is a very well-known presenter and has a weekly show called the Gardener's World with the BBC for years, filmed at his garden. This is part of the series he did about gardens around the world.

Thank you for sharing this program. How wonderful it is, in this time of quarantines, to travel the world of gardens. It makes me appreciate anew what a sanctuary, a gift, a blessing any garden is, large or small. Wow. This program is better than buckets of jewels! And it makes me wonder what it would be like if we all saw each other as gardens ... if we wondered what sunlight, what water, each person needs to truly bloom. It would be a different world, but not, i think, impossible. Thank you. May the joy and peace this video gives others be returned to you many times over!

Beautiful🌺 Thank you for sharing.

I thoroughly enjoyed this video it is inspiring.

thanks for the fantastic shap

Wow. He is the Michael Wood of gardening. I can taste those fogs now.

A nice tour for the world gardens

Lovely gardens

Thank you . The similarity of these gardens to the ancient Indian and Persian gardens are fascinating ... lovely!!

Well done Monty.

How I would love to do Majorelle the train north then to Granada! I took a cruise ship from the USA through the strait to Barcelona then back to Granada which was the dream of a lifetime for a gardener....simply one of a kind!

AMAZING! Thanks!! 🙏🏻. #glorious

👍👏👏Kuwait

He is amazing!!

LOVE the program! Thanks so much for sharing and inspiring me with new ideas for my own property.

Love it Monty Dons

Wonderful way to start the day. Missed the Roman gardens when there but saw the fascinating and lovely Alhambra. Wish I liked its contemporary people as much... Thank you Monty, this is a charming film.

Wow congratulations! I wish to see it personally Maybe Someday

Thanks beautiful

Beautiful 😻

love it!

Amazing!!!!

Your video is very informative just I would like to correct one small information the Almoravids are one of the native Daynasties that rulled most of north Africa and the Iberian peninsula they are definitly not from the midlle east they were from the South of the kingdom of Morocco. Best regards

C’est merveilleux 😊

J’ai déjà vu sur Netflix les documentaires sur lui et les jardins qu’il a fait et j’adore 🥰

God bless us beautiful earth well furnished .

This I s amazing

Wow quel belle endroit pour faire vélo

I am thrilled you went to Crauncho’s home! He is just the best, as you said he makes something new out of the Mediterranean and Arabic traditions, it has been the perfect ending!

@materre1662

3 жыл бұрын

Just a correction about thz moroccan part it's not arabic it's native amazigh north african amazigh and mediteranean culture. Nothing to do with meadel east. This beauty doesn't exist in meadel east

@carlosruiz184

3 жыл бұрын

You are right, it doesn’t exist in the Middle East, I am referring to the Arabic tradition in Spain, when the Muslims invade Spain in the seven hundreds they arrive to a gothic Spain that had been roman for seven hundred years and they adapt their style to what is already there, they “arabise” the Roman villa, I am referring to that new mix

this may be useful for you when clearing the garden

Wow

Alhambra ❤️

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Elio!

sublime paralyis

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Fernando=spanish version of Monty ;-)

The last garden should be changed for an historical portuguese 's garden and so complete italian, moroccan and iberian view.

80 gardens.. prescription..Spain ..morroco...Italy. The brothers Grimm..🧙...🧵📌🧵..

@jisoosstan4230

4 жыл бұрын

Ahahahah

24:52 what is the name of the song please Thank you

@engineer9999

5 жыл бұрын

Not entirely positive,but i believe it's by Popol Vuh. If you like it you will surely like them

I need this type of job to apply I am in Morocco I am in tin masour

@alieudem4136

3 жыл бұрын

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The more I listen to Mr. Don the more i realise history needs to rewritten. The most powerful man, the richest man.......in the western world Mr. Don, in the western world. NOT THE WORLD

for a series about gardens, it shows a lot of views of trains and city skylines. It barely showed the back yard gardens and hardly mentions the plants found in them.

@ekatlaterrible

5 жыл бұрын

I think these series are meant to inspire people to travel. Yes, not everyone has the opportunity to, but I think this series is for garden-obsessed people that will be inspired by the selection here and then plan trips around it... But I do agree, there can NEVER be enough shots of the gardens and explanations of the plants.

can you colonise a new planet to start a new life

Tiwwwoli ?

@venicemitchell1407

4 жыл бұрын

Tivoli

A shame the Palacio de la Granja in Segovia did not appear here. The fountains there are great, they have nothing to do with the Islamic world so many tourists are not interested. For them Spain is just the Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving, something that did no good to Spain. If you go to Madrid, take a short trip to Segovia and go tho see the gardens and fountains ns, better in autumn... ☺️☺️☺️

The gardens of spain are of pure moroccan architecture, and the influence is amazigh =native north african. Absolutly not arab. This kind of architechture don't came from meadel east at all and it's compkeatly different from meadel east. it's native to morocco and south spain because this part was controlled by the moroccan empire for centuries. While visiting alhambra i have the feeling i'm in fes La jiralda has his similar mosque in marrakech...

Btw, the "h" is silent in Spanish. So, Alhambra is pronounced, "Alambrah." Again, the "h" is silent in Spanish. Examples: Hola, hombre, hambre, alcohol, etc... It's basic Spanish.

@gatofelixriodejaneir

5 жыл бұрын

It's the same in Italian, Portuguese and French ...

@xaxs101

5 жыл бұрын

Well, the correct pronunciation of it is Alhamra (al \haa \m\ ra). Which means The Red in Arabic.

@marciaaraujo2992

5 жыл бұрын

😚😍

@annaday6436

4 жыл бұрын

The English word alcohol comes from Arabic (al-kohl). Means possesses by spirits. It’s root is also in the English word ghoul. It’s not Spanish and the h is not silent.

@sandrapicton8961

3 жыл бұрын

@@annaday6436 Thank you, so interesting.

2 cultures that co-existed in spain? funny man.

@venicemitchell1407

4 жыл бұрын

???

@noyezz3690

4 жыл бұрын

@@venicemitchell1407 there was nothing but war and one religion was always suppressing the other

One note, as others have mentioned, it should be called “Arabic” or “Moroccan”, not Islamic.

@ISLAMWAISLAMAH

3 жыл бұрын

For sure ❤️

You just don't see enough of the gardens: they are overshadowed by this prat!!!!

LIKE THE PROGRAM. AND REALLY LIKE YOU MONTY! .... BUT FOUND IT OFFENSIVE THAT WHEN THEY TRANSLATE ANYONE FROM ITALIAN/ TO ENGLISH. .... THEY USE A "STEREOTYPE ITALIAN/ ENGLISH ACCENT!" "O A MAMA A MIA! ME ENLISH NUT SO GOOD!".... THAT'S JUST INSULTING! AND EMBARRASSING!!!!! YOUR PRODUCTION TEAM SHOULD KNOW BETTER THAN THAT! ..... I COULDN'T BELIEVE MY EARS WHEN IT FIRST HAPPENED. ..... I ACTUALLY HIT REWIND TO MAKE SURE IT ACTUALLY WAS TAKING PLACE! ..... IT'S ABSOLUTELY INSULTING! I AM EMBARRASSED FOR YOU!

@m31Robert

4 жыл бұрын

Why not stop dubbing at all, KZread has a subtitle feature for those who do not understand the native languages. I think the local/simulated accent was cute. @JustMeGeorgie Just a little tip about netiquette, if I may: ranting in ALLCAPS, with spurious exclamation marks, is like a shouted tirade, and has the opposite of the intended effect. I am embarassed for you. I could have done with less 'explanations'. That strait crossing must have been pretty horrible, Monty, I appreciate that you told us of your experience. I loved the bosco, the views, the soukh streets, and the cactus plants!

Japanese Gardens best

@kashi817

5 жыл бұрын

Yes👍

How can this british guy be so naive and ignore the islamic invasion of Spain for what it was: a terrible, shameful invasion?

@charlamagnum2576

4 жыл бұрын

Havent you heard? it was a truly 'multicultural' society -- you cant say anything bad about muslims and blacks in the west else they will fire you because you are being 'close minded'

Almoravids and almohads didn’t come from the Middle East. Almoravids are Moroccan Imazighen/“berbers” of native North African descent who converted to Islam. Please make some research before saying such things. It’s also not an “Arab” garden, we call Moroccan architecture “moorish” for a reason, mainly because it is actually NOT Arabian. Same thing applies to Riads which are only found in Morocco and nowhere else in the Middle East. Again, much and much misinformation in this documentary, I personally don’t recommend it.