Monty Don was born on 8th July 1955 in West Berlin where his father was a serving soldier. He was given the name Montagu Denis Wyatt Don and has a twin sister. Monty Don's young life involved a strict upbringing. He attended 3 public schools before going on to attend a comprehensive school where he failed his A levels. Monty had already found his love of gardening and farming as a teenager. Whilst he was resitting his A levels at evening classes worked on a pig farm and building sites. Monty Don met wife Sarah whilst he was studying English at Magdalene College in Cambridge. Monty Don has three children - Adam, Freya and Tom. His early careers included dustman, grave digger and waiter and a failed novelist. Monty launched a costume jewellery company with his jeweller wife Sarah Don. This career move is his most quoted and it was during the flamboyant 1980s that Monty Don Jewellery was a success. You can find examples of Monty Don Jewellery on Pinterest and for sale on eBay. The jewellery business eventually went bankrupt leaving them living with Sarah's parents. During this time the start of what was to be a life long battle with depression and seasonally affected disorder (SAD) reared its head. He treated this with cognitive behavioural therapy, drug treatment and the use of a light box. Monty is a huge advocate to the healing power of gardening, the mud on your hands and the pleasure of watching the rewards grow. “The real importance of gardening is the empowerment that it gives people, however small or seemingly insignificant their gardens might be. It is surprising how liberating it is, if you can grow anything at all.” – Monty Don Monty's early passion for gardening started bearing fruit although never having any formal training. Monty Don's garden Longmeadow is not open to the public. Monty has a weekly gardening column in the Observer and has also wrote for the Daily Mail and Mail on line. A gardening slot on this morning started what was to be the first of many and Monty Don has been a Gardeners World presenter since 2003. Monty in his first appearance on Tomorrows World British gardener Monty Don began his TV career as a presenter on the popular TV garden makeover show Real Gardens with Carol Klein and Ann-Marie Powell. Real Gardens was different from the usual format as helped the gardeners through out the season develop their own gardens. Monty Don was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2018. Monty Don TV Shows 1998 - 2000 Real Gardens Series 3 ? I am not sure if this is Series 2 and series 3 from Episode 14? Pete Free 🌻 Episode 1: Stockport, Norfolk & Felixstowe Episode 2: Harrow, Norfolk & Devon Episode 3: Stockport, Norfolk & Felixstowe Episode 4: Harrow, Norfolk & Devon Episode 5: Stockport, Norfolk & Felixstowe Episode 6: Harrow, Norfolk & Devon Episode 7: Guernsey, Felixstowe & Stockport Episode 8: Devon, Stockport, Guernsey & RHS Chelsea Flower Show Episode 9: Harrow, Guernsey & Felixstowe Episode 10: Guernsey, Islington & Devon Episode 11: Huddersfield, Islington & Chulmleigh Episode 12: Devon, Guernsey & Stockport Episode 13: Huddersfield, Islington, Chulmleigh & RHS Hampton Court Flower Show Episode 14: Liverpool, Burton-on-Trent, Portsmouth (from previous series) Episode 15: Cotswolds, Huddersfield & Chumleigh Episode 16: Guernsey, Cotswolds & Chumleigh Episode 17: Huddersfield, Cotswolds & Chumleigh Episode 18: Guernsey, Wiltshire & Cotswolds Episode 19: Leicestershire, Wiltshire & Cotswolds Episode 20: Leicestershire, Wiltshire & Cotswolds Series 2 Series 1 2001 Lost Gardens 2003 - present Gardeners' World 2008 Around the World in 80 Gardens 2011 Monty Don's Italian Gardens 2013 Great British Garden Revival 2013 Monty Don's French Gardens 2014 - 2017 Big Dreams, Small Places 2014 Main Presenter RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2015 The Secret History of the British Garden 2019 Monty Don's Japanese Gardens Copyright BBC.com Episode 1 Episode 2 2020 Monty Don's American Gardens 2020 Gardeners' World 2020 Copyright BBC.com Episode 1: 20 March 2020 Episode 2: 27 March 2020 Episode 5: 17 April 2020 Episode 6: 24 April 2020 Episode 7: 01 May 2020 Episode 8: 08 May 2020 Episode 9: 15 May 2020 2021 Gardeners' World 2021 Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Gardeners' World Winter Specials 2021/22 10 December 2021 2022 Monty Don's Adriatic Gardens Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 2022 Gardeners' World 2022 First shown 11/03/2022 Gardeners' World Winter Specials 2022/23 2023 Gardeners' World Compilations 2023 Gardeners' World 2023 Gardeners' World Winter Specials 2023/24 Gardeners' World Compilations 2024 Monty Don Books 1997 The Sensuous Garden 1997 The Weekend Gardener - Beautiful Gardens for Busy People 1998 Gardening Mad (and Fleur Olby) 1998 Urban Jungle: The Simple Way to Tame Your Town Garden 1999 Fork to Fork (and Sarah Don) 2003 From the Garden to the Table: Growing, Cooking, and Eating Your Own Food (and Sarah Don, Simon Wheeler) 2005 The Jewel Garden: A Story of Despair and Redemption (and Sarah Don) 2005 Gardeners' World: Gardening from Berryfields 2006 Growing out of Trouble 2006 My Roots: A Decade in the Garden 2008 Round the World in 80 Gardens 2009 The Complete Gardener: A Practical, Imaginative Guide to Every Aspect of Gardening 2009 Extraordinary Gardens of the World 2009 The Ivington Diaries 2010 The Home Cookbook (and Sarah Don) 2011 Ten Poems About Gardens 2011 Great Gardens of Italy (and Derry Moore) 2012 Gardening at Longmeadow 2013 My Dream Farm 2014 The Road to Le Tholonet: A French Garden Journey 2017 Down to Earth: Gardening Wisdom 2017 Nigel: my family and other dogs 2017 Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse (and Ann Dumas) 2018 Paradise Gardens: the world's most beautiful Islamic gardens (and Derry Moore) 2019 Japanese Gardens: a Journey (and Derry Moore) 2020 My Garden World 2020 American Gardens (and Derry Moore) 2021 The Complete Gardener: A Practical, Imaginative Guide to Every Aspect of Gardening Revised Edition 2022 Gardening at Longmeadow 2023 The Gardening Book Monty Don Website
