A Glimpse of Paradise: Garden Culture in the Islamic World

The journey begins at the gardens of the Persian Empire and travels on to the green oasis of the Indian subcontinent, North Africa and Southern Spain.

The gardens in India bear witness to wealth and order; setting out on a voyage of discovery to gardens blooming in the midst of hustle and bustle and hullabaloo of modern India.

Colorful markets, glittering souks and shaded gardens; these gardens today are the work of artists, romantics and plant collectors from Europe; a journey to Morocco to discover how they have brought their dream of the orient into garden form.

Andalusia was a part of the Islamic World for nearly eight hundred years; gardens there are a reminder of this period; setting out on a voyage of discovery to the roots of European garden art, which are over a thousand years old and Islamic.

The population of the Middle East is growing and its cities expanding; private luxury oases and public parks can only be achieved in a compromise with the climate; setting out on a journey of discovery to find out how gardens have changed lives.