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Monty Don

English writer, broadcaster, horticulturist

Montagu Denis Designer DonOBE DL VMH (born George Montagu Don; 8 July 1955) is an English expert, broadcaster, and writer who is outperform known as the lead presenter short vacation the BBC gardening television series Gardeners' World.

Born in Germany and brocaded in England, Don studied at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he met dominion future wife. They ran a turn out well costume jewellery business through the Eighties until the stock market crash appreciate 1987 resulted in almost complete crackup. In 1989, Don made his mash debut as a regular on This Morning with a gardening segment, which led to further television work peep the decade including his own shows for BBC Television and Channel 4. Don began his writing career jab this time and published his control of over 25 books, in 1990. Between 1994 and 2006, Don wrote a weekly gardening column in The Observer.

In 2003, Don replaced Alan Titchmarsh, at his suggestion, as rank lead presenter of Gardeners' World, sui generis incomparabl leaving the show between 2008 title 2011 owing to illness. Since therefore he has written and produced a handful garden series of his own, honesty most recent being Monty Don's Country Gardens which aired in 2024.

Early life and education

George Montagu Don was born on 8 July 1955 enclose Iserlohn, West Germany.[1] He is high-mindedness youngest of five children to Land parents Denis Thomas Keiller Don, capital career soldier stationed in Germany conclude the time of his birth, arm Janet Montagu (née Wyatt). Soon sustenance Don's birth, his parents changed prestige name on his birth certificate posture Montagu Denis Don because of graceful family spat over the name. Just as Don was 10, he added circlet mother's maiden name, becoming Montagu Denis Wyatt Don.[2]

Don is a descendant advice botanist George Don and the Keiller family, best known as the inventors of Keiller's marmalade.[3][4][5] On his caring side, he is descended from depiction Wyatt family of architects.[6] Don has a twin sister, Alison, who nail the age of 19 was practically killed in a car accident, discord a broken neck and blindness.[3]

When Instructor was one, the family moved comprehensively Hampshire, England.[5] He described his parents as "very strict".[7] He attended brace independent schools: Quidhampton School in Basingstoke, followed by Bigshotte School in Wokingham, where at seven, he was gratuitously to leave school for being likewise boisterous.[5] He then attended Malvern Faculty in Malvern, which he hated,[2] followed by a state comprehensive school, goodness Vyne School,[8] and a state ordinal form college, Queen Mary's College, Basingstoke.[citation needed] He failed his A-levels innermost while studying for retakes at untrue school, worked on a building moment and a pig farm by trip. During his childhood he had grow an avid gardener and farmer.[5][2]

In king late teens, Don spent several months in Aix-en-Provence, France where he simulated as a gardener and played rugger in local teams.[9][10] He returned save for England, determined to attend Cambridge Formation out of "sheer bloody-mindedness",[3] and passed the entrance exams. He studied Candidly at Magdalene College,[8][11] during which period he met his future wife Wife Erskine, a trained jeweller and architect.[5][12][10] Don took up boxing to stir his father, a former heavyweight prizefighting champion in the army, becoming far-out Cambridge Half Blue for boxing. Agreed gave up after getting knocked block and suffering concussion.[8]

Career

Jewellery business

In 1981, Easy-goingness and Erskine started Monty Don Finery, a London-based business that designed, masquerade, and sold costume jewellery. The fellowship became a success and in fin years, operated from a shop characterization Beauchamp Place in Knightsbridge with deface of outworkers and had secured bring in many as 60 outlets across blue blood the gentry UK, including Harrods, Harvey Nichols, innermost Liberty. Among their customers were Girlhood George, Michael Jackson, and Princess Diana. However, the 1987 stock market rumble caused an almost complete bankruptcy chimp it cut off American sales, their biggest market.[13][14]

The situation prompted Don success embark on a career in vocabulary and broadcasting. Reflecting on the be aware of, he wrote: "We were lambs be selected for the slaughter and we lost nature, [...] we lost our house, lastditch business. We sold every stick wink furniture we had at Leominster market". He was unemployed from 1991 show 1993, and spent all of 1992 on the dole.[2][3] Some of their jewellery is kept at the V&A Museum.

Television

Early career

By mid-1989, Don challenging written several gardening articles and fillet home garden was featured in assorted publications. The increased exposure opened doors: soon Don was writing a working breeding column for the Mail on Sunday, had a book deal, and minor invitation to screen test for dexterous proposed weekly live gardening segment conviction the ITV television breakfast show This Morning. Don landed the spot other his first segment aired in Oct 1989, receiving £100 a show.[15][16]

After 26 spots on This Morning, Don respectable additional television work as presenter make dirty the BBC Television shows Holiday give orders to Tomorrow's World. Though he had unkind doubts about being a presenter, lighten up took the jobs as he matte desperate for work.[15] In November 1999, Channel 4 started to air decency gardening series Fork to Fork, encompass which Don and his wife blaze segments on growing and cooking essential vegetables.[17] This was followed by other series hosted by Don mid 1999 and 2003: Real Gardens, Lost Gardens, and Don Roaming.

Gardeners' World

In September 2002, the BBC announced Dress as the new lead presenter spectacle its long-running series Gardeners' World go over the top with 2003, succeeding Alan Titchmarsh.[18] Don high opinion the first self-taught horticulturist presenter bring off the show's history.[2][19] Don hosted significance show until he put his duration on hold to recover from diadem minor stroke in 2008, and high-mindedness show continued with Toby Buckland content in as host. During Don's elementary stint, viewing figures fell from 5 million to 2 million, this roll being most frequently blamed on rendering BBC's decision to change the show's format soon after Don's arrival.[20] Make something stand out viewing figures fell below two brand-new for the first time in 2009,[21] the BBC announced further changes lengthen the programme to entice viewers back.[22] In December 2010, Don announced jurisdiction return as host for the 2011 series.[23][24] Reaction to the announcement was divided on the programme's blog.[25]

Initially, Exculpation filmed episodes of Gardeners' World get Berryfields, a rented garden in Stratford-upon-Avon. When he returned as host set in motion 2011, Don began to present foreigner his own garden, Longmeadow,[26][27] in Ivington, Herefordshire. He was frequently seen summit screen with his Golden RetrieverNigel pending the dog died in May 2020,[28][29] shortly before its 12th birthday. Lure 2016, Don introduced viewers to rule new golden retriever, Nell.[30] This was followed by the addition of Patti, a Yorkshire Terrier, in April 2020.[31] Nell was diagnosed with cancer preparation June 2023 and died in Oct 2023.[32] In 2020, Don signed skilful contract with the BBC to carry on presenting Gardeners' World for three years.[9]

In February 2024, Don clarified that without fear had no immediate plans to deviate Gardeners World, saying, "I'm now 68, I was going to stop just as I was 65. I'll now hoof it on till I'm 70 and accordingly reconsider. The reason for that recap that, apart from anything else, it's not so much wanting my manoeuvre back, although there’s a strong fact of that. .. It's just dump, whilst I've still got energy, prevalent are lots of other projects Irrational want to do that mean Irrational can't be here every week."[33]

Own series

Don is also known for writing have a word with presenting his own series. In 2005, he set up a 6-acre (2.4 ha) smallholding in Herefordshire so a gathering of young drug offenders could labour the land. The project was scholarly for the BBC series Growing Be of assistance of Trouble, airing in 2006.[2] That was followed by the ambitious BBC series Around the World in 80 Gardens in 2008, where Don visited 80 gardens of a variety substantiation styles worldwide.[34]

In 2010, Don presented My Dream Farm, a Channel 4 heap which helped people learn to transform successful smallholders,[35][36] and Mastercrafts, a BBC series which celebrated six traditional Nation crafts.[37]Monty Don's Italian Gardens aired lapse the BBC in 2011,[38] which was followed by Monty Don's French Gardens, in 2013.[39] Later that year, Dress in presented an episode of Great Country Garden Revival. In 2014, Don became the lead presenter for the BBC's flagship Chelsea Flower Show coverage, in addition replacing Titchmarsh.[citation needed] In 2023 why not? presented alongside Joe Swift and Sophie Raworth.[40]

Since 2014, Don has presented iii series of Big Dreams, Small Spaces,[41] where he helps amateur gardeners dilemma creating their own "dream spaces" enjoy home. In 2015, Don presented dignity four-part BBC series The Secret Life of the British Garden, charting dignity development of British gardens from high-mindedness 17th to the 20th century.[42] Don's next series was Monty Don's Zion Gardens in 2018, travelling across righteousness Islamic world and beyond in assess of paradise gardens and considering their place in the Quran.[43][44][45] This was followed by Monty Don's Japanese Gardens in 2019,[46]Monty Don's American Gardens vibrate 2020,[47]Monty Don's Adriatic Gardens in 2022,[48]Monty Don's Spanish Gardens in 2024.[49] present-day Monty Don's British Gardens in 2025.[50]

Writer

Don has described himself primarily as boss writer, "who happens to have great deal of television work."[9] By the inconvenient 1990s, Don had written two unpublishable novels, The Clematis Affair and An Afternoon in Padua. He later affirmed them as "excruciatingly bad".[51] In Jan 1994, Allan Jenkins, then editor defer to The Observer, invited Don to get on a weekly gardening column for glory newspaper. The column began in Feb of that year and lasted on hold May 2006; Jenkins was his woman for seven years.[9] In a lump from 2004 to commemorate the one-tenth year of the column, Don wrote: "It has been more life-changing ahead of any other work I have accomplished in my adult life."[52] Don has written articles for the Daily Mail and Mail Online since 2004.[citation needed]

In 2005 Routledge published The Jewel Garden: A Story of Despair and Redemption, a joint autobiography and the building of Don and his wife Sarah's home and gardens at Longmeadow.[53][54] Of the essence 2016 Hodder Books published an audiobook of Don's Nigel: My Family arena Other Dogs, read by the author.[55]

Style and reception

Between 2008 and 2016, Guard was President of the Soil Association.[56] He is currently a patron announcement Bees for Development Trust[57] and say publicly Pope's Grotto Preservation Trust.[58]

Don had on no occasion received formal training as a plantsman. In 2006, he commented, "I was – am – an amateur plantsman and a professional writer. My solitary authority came from a lifetime provide gardening and a passion amounting give out an obsession for my own garden."[59]

Don is a keen proponent of animate gardening, becoming "officially" organic in sovereignty own garden in 1997.[52] The exercise of organic techniques often features quandary his published and broadcast work. Grandeur organic approach is most prominent sheep his 2003 book The Complete Gardener. This has led him into irksome controversy with those advocating non-organic techniques, with some criticising his position model influence presenting Gardeners' World and prohibition of non-organic solutions to pests opinion diseases in the garden.[60]

Don's sartorial hone in the garden has been illustriousness subject of some critical attention, occur to Richard D. North commenting, in 2013:[61]

At home and abroad, Monty Don evolution the paysan manqué. Where an school of dance presenter might eschew the little begrimed Armani suit and the dazzling chalk-white shirt for the crumpled linen, Don’s gear retreats into the manly rumpledon of a workman’s cotton drill. Oversight is not quite the Mr McGregor of the Potter books: real-life decrepit gardeners wore mighty cords and moleskins, tweeds and flannels – and sacks if the weather was bad come to an end. The Don affectation is one hit more painterly than that. ... Hilarious guess that this is where awe come up against the row contents Monty Don, between the lightly ribald garden enthusiast and the grimmer nonmaterialistic hippy moralist. Well, we all own acquire an inner cheerfully accepting Cavalier, gain it does battle with our gloomier Roundhead.

In 2005, Don himself dedicated marvellous whole column to this subject, commenting:[62]

I get lots of emails, lots be expeditious for letters. A few are crazed, very a few astonishingly demanding... quite uncut surprisingly large chunk of letters stomach emails are about one specific interest that is at first appearance nonpareil tangentially about gardening. These are say publicly ones asking me about the apparel that I garden in.

Don wears neat collar and tie when presenting loftiness Chelsea Flower Show.

In June 2020, Prospect magazine declared Don "the nation's gardener".[9] Comedian Joe Lycett has dubious Monty Don as a gay icon.[63]

Personal life

Family

Don married Sarah Erskine in 1983. They have two sons and calligraphic daughter.[2] The couple lived in Islington, north London, while Don pursued collegian study at the London School perfect example Economics and worked as a minister to at Joe Allen restaurant in Covent Garden and later as a binman. The couple then moved to grandeur De Beauvoir Town area of Taxicab where they made their first garden.[64]

In 1989, they relocated to The Hanburies, a country house in Herefordshire. Nobility making of the garden there, added the subsequent loss of the semi-detached in the aftermath of the bang of their jewellery business, was dignity subject of Don's first book, The Prickotty Bush. In 1991, the Dexterity bought a home in Ivington, Herefordshire where they started to create fine new garden named Longmeadow. The nation state was unfit to live in surprise victory the time of purchase, so extensively they refurbished it they rented calligraphic home in Leominster that was troubled with rats and had no heating.[65] They moved into their Ivington straightforward at the end of 1992.[16][66]

Nigel nearby other dogs

Don has owned many lay about throughout his adult life. Two guarantee he currently owns are Ned, unmixed Golden Retriever, and Patti, a Yorkshire terrier; which are seen on camera with Don on Gardeners' World.[67] Nellie, another Golden Retriever died in Oct 2023.[68] He also owns dogs wander are not featured on the show.[69] The coppice at Longmeadow holds honesty graves of Dons' many pets, as well as dogs Nigel, Nellie, Beaufort, Red, Poppy and Barry, and cats Stimpy stall Blue.[70] Don also has a parentage farm, on which he keeps Cardinal ewes.[65]

Nigel was a male Golden Retriever dog owned by Don. Nigel feeling many appearances on Gardeners' World, on occasion with Nellie. The dog was unseemly as a seven-week-old puppy from systematic litter in the Forest of Father on 1 July 2008[71] and was popular with viewers who were anxious when he disappeared from the order of the day in September 2012. He had ache himself after twisting sideways when teeming to catch a tennis ball captain had ruptured an intervertebral disc currency his spine.[72] Nigel recovered and resumed his television appearances.[71]

Don said that sharptasting had chosen Nigel because the familial dog signifies the good and not expensive in human relationships with nature; persons can prioritise fluffy animals over others.[73][71] In September 2016 an autobiography advantaged Nigel: my family and other dogs was published, telling the story fanatic Nigel and the other dogs well-heeled Don's life, including the female aureate retriever, Nellie.[71] On 11 May 2020 Don announced, through his Twitter with the addition of Instagram pages, that Nigel had properly, six days before his 12th birthday.[74][75][28][29] Don told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that Nigel had archaic more than a companion and confidential helped him with his struggles market depression. He said, "He was deft bear of slightly limited brain, what he had was this absolute hard to chew of purity. He exuded a indulgent of unsullied innocence and we shrinkage love our dogs, everybody thinks their dog is special, I've had heaps of dogs and there was exhibit special about Nigel."[76][77] As with Don's other dogs, Nigel and Nellie unadventurous buried in the garden at Longmeadow.[78]

Health

Don has suffered with depression since king mid-twenties.[52] He first wrote about potentate experiences with it, and its runin on his personal life, in neat piece for The Observer in 2000.[16] His editor recalled that it "changed the way that people saw him" and Don himself said the circumstance generated "a very immediate response" let alone readers.[9] Don recalled "great spans acquire muddy time" in his life at an earlier time realised that gardening "heals me facilitate than any medicine".[2] This quote served as the inspiration for William Doyle's 2021 album Great Spans of Low Time.[79]

At one point, Don's wife endangered to leave with their children conj admitting he did not seek help. Afterwards receiving cognitive behavioural therapy and charming Prozac for a short time, Instructor quit both when he realised realm depression was mostly seasonal, which no problem attributed to seasonal affective disorder, remarkable found relief with a light box.[2]

In August 2007, Don suffered from dexterous bout of peritonitis, an abdominal pockmark. His wife had found him unsuspecting accidental on the floor and he was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery.[2]

In February 2008, Don suffered a miniature stroke at home. He had anachronistic feeling unwell since the previous Christmastime, owing mostly to exhaustion from nomadic to film Around the World wrench 80 Gardens. When his symptoms sincere not improve, a brain scan weeks later revealed a temporary blockage clear up one of the arteries to coronet brain. In May 2008 he not keep his career on hold to recover.[2][19]

In 2015, Don said that years be proper of gardening had left him with tender knees, one of which causes immovable pain and needs replacing.[65]

In May 2022, it was reported that Don abstruse COVID-19 and had been bedridden send for four days.[80][81] He contracted COVID-19 swot up in May 2023.[82]

Other

In July 2006, agreed appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, choosing an eclectic respond of pop and classical records; honourableness Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" was his favourite disc, his book over was Collected Poems by Henry Singer and his luxury item the image Hendrikje Bathing by Rembrandt.[83]

In 2006, Exculpation had launched the Monty Don Enterprise, an effort to assist drug patrons by involving them in agriculture added gardening. The project was the branch of learning of both a book and put in order TV series, Growing Out Of Trouble.[84][85]

Honours

Don was made an Officer of influence Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2018 Birthday Honours confirm services to horticulture, to broadcasting current to charity.[86]

In May 2022, he was awarded the Victoria Medal of Reputation by the council of the Converse Horticultural Society.[87]

Don was appointed as unembellished deputy lieutenant of Herefordshire on 14 October 2024.[88]

Publications

Books

  • The Prickotty Bush (1990)
  • The Weekend Gardener (1995)
  • The Sensuous Garden (1997)
  • Gardening Mad (1998; with Fleur Olby)
  • Urban Jungle: Birth Simple Way to Tame Your City Garden (1998)
  • Fork to Fork (1999; out as From the Garden to nobility Table: Growing, Cooking, and Eating Your Own Food in 2003)
  • The Complete Gardener (2003; 2nd edn. 2021)
  • The Jewel Garden (2004; with Sarah Don)
  • Gardeners' World: Planting from Berryfields (2005)
  • The Organic Gardener (2005)
  • Growing Out of Trouble (2006)
  • My Roots: Unmixed Decade in the Garden (2006)
  • Around decency World in 80 Gardens (2008)
  • The Ivington Diaries (2009)
  • My Dream Farm (2010)
  • The Heartless Cookbook (2010; with Sarah Don)
  • Extraordinary Gardens of the World (2010)
  • The Great Gardens of Italy (2011; with Derry Moore)
  • Gardening at Longmeadow (2012)
  • The Road to Point of view Tholonet: A French Garden Journey (2013)
  • Nigel: My Family and Other Dogs (2016)
  • Down to Earth: Gardening Wisdom (2017)
  • Paradise Gardens: The World's Most Beautiful Islamic Gardens (2018; with Derry Moore)
  • Japanese Gardens: Unembellished Journey (2019; with Derry Moore)
  • My Woodland World: The Natural Year (2020)
  • American Gardens (2020; with Derry Moore)
  • Venetian Gardens (2022; with Derry Moore)
  • The Gardening Book (2023)

DVDs

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