80 Gardens Around the World: Mexico and Cuba

When you need to sit in the chair because your legs are tired and your back hurts from pulling weeds, it's the perfect time to watch this series: 80 Gardens Around the World. It's simply luscious and fantastic and joyful and inspirational and beautiful and it reminds you once again, that even if people are idiots, they are creative and passionate idiots. 

This episode features an exploration of Mexico's 2,000 year-old "floating gardens." Imagine never watering your plants because the garden floated in water?! I would love to float in a boat to fetch a bundle of marigolds.

You'll learn a little bit about Mexican culture in this episode. A discussion about the brightly colored walls of Mexican architecture helped me better appreciate pink stucco, so uncommon in American architecture. The cactus garden was simply superb if you could imagine yourself walking through the tall cacti standing like sentinels guarding the land.

Episode One: The Gardens of Mexico and Cuba (about an hour long)

I'll post the other episodes so if you aren't interested in watching them, let me know. You won't hurt my feelings a bit! I've been obsessively watching gardening videos, garden tours, and landscaping how to's. That's because my back ain't what it used to be and I must stagger my time in the garden with sitting-on-my-butt-watching-videos time. 

I loved this series about elaborate gardens requiring hundreds of maintenance workers. It just says so much about our human love for horticulture. An upcoming video of French chateau gardens will amaze you because of the "hedge clipping" time and the money (whoa!) required to preserve royal gardens from as far back as the seventeenth century. Monet's famous flower garden is featured in that video, too. 

Love,

Carolyn