The British horticulturalist takes a trip to the United States to visit some of the country's most famous and interesting gardens.

British gardening enthusiast Monty Don admits that the United States has led the world for the last one hundred years in most facets of life, and that it has certainly dominated global culture. But can the same be said about its gardens, or if there is in fact such a thing as a quintessential American garden, especially in a country as vast geographically and thus climatically as the US? Monty makes a tour of the gardens of the US in a quest to answer these questions.—Huggo