- Beginning in Trieste, Monty heads down the Croatian coast in the footsteps of the Venetians. He visits a public garden created by an obsessive plantsman and is given a tour of ancient olive groves.
- Following the historic trading routes of Venice, Monty embarks on the second leg of his Adriatic journey from Trieste, down the Croatian coast to Dubrovnik. With Croatia under Communist rule for the better part of the latter half of the twentieth century followed by the destructive Balkan Wars of the 1990s, Croatia is still finding its way in terms of gardening, in particular moving from it being purely a utilitarian function of growing food, which was necessary in the country's poverty under the Communists, to something more holistic. Some gardeners are trying to find their way from the beginning, while some of the most spectacular gardens are those created fully by nature, such as the landscape around the Plitvice Lakes. Beauty of a different kind can be seen in the utilitarian meeting the historic in an olive grove on the island of Pag, where the rough and rocky land is not owned by anyone, but each olive tree, some estimated to be two thousand years old, are individually owned.—Huggo
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