Great Gardens of Europe
Leiden
Season 1 Episode 1 of 4
A look at the continent's finest horticultural sites, beginning with the Dutch city of Leiden's Hortus Botanicus, one of the world's oldest botanical gardens. The programme reveals its role in sparking the popularity of the Dutch tulip and explores how it transformed European horticulture with exotic plants from the Far East, and examines its legacy in medicinal research
Great Gardens of Europe airs on 5 at 6:20 PM, Saturday 23 August. (Subtitles, new, series.)
Topics
Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics
Foreign Countries ➝ Expeditions
Leisure hobbies
Gardening
Duncan Bulling
Director
Chris O'Donnell
Director
Gareth Prescott
Director
Claudia Riccio
Executive Producer