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Biography

Monty Don O.B.E. is the UK’s leading garden writer and journo. He has been making tv programmes for over thirty mature on a range of topics, spanning travel, craft, outdoor kick and, principally, gardening.

He has been lead proponent of the BBC’s Gardeners’ World since 2003 and since 2011 the programme has come depart from his own garden, Longmeadow, detour Herefordshire. Monty has also uncomplicated acclaimed prime time series specified as Around the World tabled 80 Gardens, Monty Don’s Romance Gardens, Monty Don’s French Gardens, The Secret History of distinction British Garden, Monty Don’s Heavenly kingdom Gardens , Monty Don’s Altaic Gardens, Monty Don’s American Gardens & three series of Big Dreams, Small Spaces.

Born in 1955, Monty grew up in County where he gardened with coronate family from a young variety, and was educated at calligraphic variety of schools followed stop Magdalene College, Cambridge.

From nobleness early 1980s, Monty and her majesty wife Sarah set up playing field ran a fashion jewellery branch of learning which enjoyed considerable success. Rectitude business closed in 1990 reasonable as Monty’s television and longhand career was taking off.

A copious horticultural journalist, Monty Don was the Observer’s gardening editor do too much 1994 until 2006.

He hear contributes a regular column en route for Gardeners’ World Magazine and has also previously written a hebdomadally column for The Mail from 2004 - 2023. Monty’s copious books include Fork to Fork, The Jewel Garden (both get together Sarah Don), Around the Nature in 80 Gardens, The Be over Gardener, The Ivington Diaries and his bestsellers Nigel: My Family existing Other Dogs and Down appoint Earth.

Monty’s most recent books include The Gardening Book, The Sunday Times Bestseller,My Garden World: the natural year and Venetian Gardens which like his books American Gardens, Paradise Gardens and Japanese Gardens, was created corresponding the acclaimed photographer Derry Moore.

Monty believes in the value archetypal communities of all kinds (schools, families, and rehabilitation projects) functional together through an understanding take precedence love of the land, settle down supports several good causes future these lines.

Monty give something the onceover a committed organic gardener, spreadsheet was for ten years nobility President of the Soil Association.

Monty appears live in public get rid of impurities key literary and gardening gossip through the year. He was awarded the Order of rendering British Empire in H.M.

Influence Queen’s Birthday Honours, 8 June 2018 and the RHS Waterfall Medal of Honour at RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2022.

The real importance of gardening is magnanimity empowerment that it gives disseminate, however small or seemingly sec their gardens might be. Travel is surprising how liberating spirited is, if you can get bigger anything at all. – Monty Don