Monty Don travels the Islamic world and beyond from Morocco to India in search of Paradise Gardens celebrated in the Koran and uncovers the influence they've had back home.

Desert landscapes are beautiful places in their own right, but literal oases in the middle of deserts are often regarded as paradise in relation. It is from this premise that the paradise garden is based, it steeped in the culture of Islam - often written about in the Koran - and a representation of "paradise" in the next life. Not knowing much about them going in, British gardening enthusiast Monty Don visits many of the paradise gardens is the former or current Muslim world and brings what he learns back home to understand how they have influenced the British garden.—Huggo