Taming the Garden is a 2021 documentary[1] film directed by Salomé Jashi, a former journalist.
[1] The film documents the extreme lengths that Bidzina Ivanishvili, Georgia's former prime minister and the world's 349th[4] richest billionaire,[5] goes to acquire trees for the construction of the Shekvetili Dendrological Park, an arboretum on his estate on the coast of the Black Sea.
[8] Claire Armitstead said, "Taming the Garden is far from a balanced two-minute news report; it stands at the junction of documentary and myth".
She graduated from Tbilisi State University and the Caucasian School of Journalism and Media Management at Georgian Institute of Public Affairs.
In 2005, she received a scholarship from British Council, to study documentary filmmaking, at Royal Holloway, University of London.