Gardening at Longmeadow

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Each chapter contains information on the author’s personal experiences at Longmeadow as well as what is happening with flowers, trees, shrubs, and vegetables during the month. It contains tasks to do as well as how to do them. Following the cycle of the seasons, Gardening at Longmeadow is a year-long diary of Monty's gardening wisdom: from the earliest snowdrops of January and the first splashes of colour in the Spring Garden, to the electric summer displays of the Jewel Garden and the autumn harvest in the orchard. Alongside his rich, personal experiences at Longmeadow, Monty describes the individual plants coming into their own in the floral and vegetable gardens and talks you through key tasks, from composting and lawn maintenance to topiary clipping and fruit pruning. The result is a very personal account of failure, bewilderment and surprise, as well as endless pleasure and some success over the course of a gardening year. Herefordshire gardener Monty Don shares new picture of adorable puppy". Hereford Times . Retrieved 28 October 2022.

In 2016 Hodder Books published an audiobook of Don's Nigel: My Family and Other Dogs, read by the author. [51] Style and reception [ edit ]C4 secures sponsorship for two new programmes". Marketing Week. 4 November 1999 . Retrieved 12 August 2020. Gardening content is hugely popular on British television, and Monty attributes that to the role of the garden in British people’s lives. He said it’s completely normal for someone to be a keen, avid gardener, and what plants everyone is growing is a common topic of conversation when meeting friends for dinner. There are two summer seasons in this garden. The first starts at the end of May and continues to mid July and then there is a noticeable shift as the light changes slightly and the whole garden heats up until September. Don has suffered with depression since his mid-twenties. [48] He first wrote about his experiences with it, and its effect on his personal life, in a piece for The Observer in 2000. [16] His editor recalled that it "changed the way that people saw him" and Don himself said the article generated "a very immediate response" from readers. [9] Don recalled "great spans of muddy time" in his life and realised that gardening "heals me better than any medicine". [2] This quote served as the inspiration for William Doyle's 2021 album Great Spans of Muddy Time. [75]

Monty Don in row with BBC over pledge he will 'promote non organic gardening' ". The Daily Telegraph. London . Retrieved 29 July 2016. a b Raven, Sarah (1 March 2003). "The likely lads". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 8 February 2016. There was nothing here that could possibly be described as a garden. But beneath years of neglect was a blank canvas that I could fill with the garden of my dreams...' Don, Monty; Don, Sarah (1 March 2012). The Jewel Garden – Monty Don, Sarah Don, Monty Don & Sarah Don – Google Books. ISBN 9781444718782 . Retrieved 22 April 2016. Wollaston, Sam (20 January 2018). "Monty Don's Paradise Gardens review – a heady tour of earthly delights". The Guardian . Retrieved 20 January 2018.

Is Longmeadow Monty Don's home?

In July 2006 he appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, choosing an eclectic mix of pop and classical records; the Beatles' " A Hard Day's Night" was his favourite disc, his book choice was Collected Poems by Henry Vaughan and his luxury item the painting Hendrikje Bathing by Rembrandt. [79]

Between 2008 and 2016 Don was President of the Soil Association. [52] He is currently a patron of Bees for Development Trust [53] and the Pope's Grotto Preservation Trust. [54] An American suburban garden (with huge exceptions) is about being domestic, safe and part of a community, staking a claim on the land and conforming to a fairly limited pattern, he says. He encourages Americans to realize that what happens in their gardens also happens in the wilderness and to make those environmental and ecological connections.

joegardener Online Gardening Academy™ : Three popular courses on gardening fundamentals; managing pests, diseases & weeds; and seed starting. Monty recalls that when he was a rebellious 17-year-old he came home from school on a late March day and instinctively went outside to sow carrots. He could feel spring unfolding, and at the moment of pouring carrot seeds into his hand to plant into the soil he had just prepared, he was filled with a profound feeling of happiness. That night, he had a dream that he put his hands into the earth and his fingers grew into the soil like roots. He awoke feeling refreshed, at ease and connected to the earth. “I’ve never really lost that feeling,” he says. With something for seasoned gardeners and green-fingered novices alike, don’t miss the opportunity to join Monty for a timely and thought-provoking celebration of the ever-surprising and comforting presence of nature. Monty Don invites you into Longmeadow, a place that has become synonymous with Gardener's World, to show how he creates and tends his own garden, and how you can bring some of that same magic to our own. Describing the magic of each area at different times of the year, Monty will explain the basics of what to do when and how to get the most from each plant. He'll talk through the essential techniques and more complex processes, accompanied by easy-to-follow, step-by-step photography.

Monty Don thanks fan for support after his dog Nigel's death". Evening Standard. London. 12 May 2020 . Retrieved 13 May 2020.He says people in Britain do not know enough about American gardens — and he sought to resolve that. Finally, he got approval to film in 2019, and he made the companion book with photographer Derry Moore. Over the course of three episodes released in January 2020 on BBC, Monty visits community gardens in New York and historical gardens in the South plus the Arizona desert and the West Coast. Join BBC Gardeners’ World presenter Monty Don as he shares his passion for gardens and the unique role they play in human inspiration and wellbeing to raise money for mental health charity Mind.