Paradise Gardens: The World's Most Beautiful Islamic Gardens

Author(s): Monty Don; Derry Moore (As told to)

Gardening & Garden Design

As seen on the highly acclaimed BBC2 series Monty Don's Paradise Gardens, a full color exploration of the astonishing beauty of twenty-nine Islamic paradise gardens from Iran, Turkey, India, England, Spain and Morocco.


In the Islamic tradition, a garden with its central elements of water, the scent of fruit trees, and places for rest and reflection, celebrate heaven on earth. Paradise gardens play a central role in everyday life in the Islamic world, yet little is known about them. Monty Don and acclaimed photographer, Derry Moore, set off on a journey to find out more about the principles and immersive delights of paradise gardens and how a very different culture and climate has influenced garden design round the world.


Their journey covers twenty-nine gardens from the Real Alcazar and the Alhambra in Spain, and Le Jardin Majorelle in Morocco, to Highgrove and a Mughal garden in Bradford in England. There are some spectacular and rarely seen examples such as Pasargadae and the Maidan in Isfahan, Iran, the birthplace of paradise gardens, as well as the more renowned examples such as Turkey's Topkapi Palace and the Amber Palace and Taj Mahal in India.


A glorious celebration of the richness of Islamic culture through some of the most beautiful gardens on earth.


'A garden, green and filled with water is heaven on earth - it is paradise.' Monty Don


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781473666481
  • : Hodder & Stoughton
  • : Two Roads
  • : 1.48778
  • : November 2017
  • : 240mm X 283mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : March 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Monty Don; Derry Moore (As told to)
  • : Hardback
  • : Hardback
  • : Illustrated edition
  • : Illustrated edition
  • : English
  • : English
  • : 712.6091767
  • : 712.6091767
  • : 224
  • : 224
  • : WMB
  • : WMB
  • : Fully illustrated
  • : Fully illustrated