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Hot on the heels of Garden Doctors, Dan Pearson travels to Japan and the United States in search of the forces that have shaped horticulture throughout the ages.

In stark contrast to Britain, Japanese horticulture is an extension of the disciplines and practices of Zen. Dan explores the inner sanctum (usually barred to western eyes) of Kyoto’s thousand-year-old Roanji rock gardens with the last Zen priest still practising garden design. He then greets modernity in the dramatic vertical gardens of East Tokyo with contemporary architect Katherine Findley. Once Stateside, Dan explores the uptown gardens of the Manhattan elite and meets the warring factions of the all-American lawn debate – trim traditionalists, versus the ‘Wild Ones’ who are tearing up their lawns in favour of untamed prairie chaos.

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