Chickweed is regarded by most gardeners as just that - a weed - but is excellent in sandwiches or salads. — Monty Don Flower Copy Share Image
If I'm honest, the thing I am proudest of is my varieties of wild flowers in the hay meadow. — Monty Don Flowers Copy Share Image
I have learnt that gardens are like happiness: you cannot pursue them as an absolute thing or moment. — Monty Don Copy Share Image
Woods are rich with biodiversity and, above all, places of trees and light that spangles a thousand greens through the leaves. — Monty Don Biodiversity Copy Share Image
When you're 15 whatever your parents tell you you should do, you're not going to do it. — Monty Don Copy Share Image
I just think that gardening is about the future, a slow thing, that is deep and spiritual as well as spiritually rewarding. — Monty Don Copy Share Image
Gardening is seen as a pastime that is almost like belonging to the Church of England - a sign of maturity and… — Monty Don Church Copy Share Image
I am always more interested in people than plants. Nature doesn't make gardens, people make gardens. And the story of a garden… — Monty Don Flower Copy Share Image
My father was an army officer who left the forces when I was six and never really fitted back into civilian life.… — Monty Don Army Copy Share Image
It does seem to me that the British in particular, British horticultural literature and television programmes, focus a huge amount on how… — Monty Don British Copy Share Image
My gardening apprenticeship was similar to the way a chimney sweep is pushed up a chimney. It was enforced by my parents,… — Monty Don Apprenticeship Copy Share Image
The horticultural industry is unimaginative and dominated by vast, supermarket-like outlets. But the small nurseries and growers remain - praise them with… — Monty Don Flower Copy Share Image
Once you engage with the simple enough business of feeding yourself, of soil and water, weather, season and harvest, it becomes personal.… — Monty Don Business Copy Share Image
A column is a curiously intimate affair. For a start, you know by default that you will have regular readers, so it… — Monty Don Books Copy Share Image
I was a sickly child, and it wasn't until I was 19 that I realised I was quite a robust, vigorous person.… — Monty Don Asthma Copy Share Image
As September rolls into October, I become obsessed with apples. Now obviously this is provoked by the ripening fruit clustering on the… — Monty Don Apples Copy Share Image
The farm uses up a lot of my creative urges. It's a sort of rough and ready space, I don't film there. — Monty Don Copy Share Image
What I love about French gardens is the combination of formal elegance and intellectual questioning. — Monty Don Beauty Copy Share Image
I loathe nowheres - airports and bland hotels. I would rather be in an unpleasant, uncomfortable place rather than one just adrift,… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
A healthy plant is one that adapts best to the situation in which it finds itself. There is no objective measure of… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
Ground elder, introduced by the Romans as a vegetable, is difficult to get rid of because it regrows from the smallest trace… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
I feel ashamed if my hands are too clean and untouched. It's a measure of how much time I've spent travelling and… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
The truth is that wreaths have never really been part of my creative life. I like them and want them and know… — Monty Don Creative life Copy Share Image
Coppice management depends upon the chosen tree being cut when the shoots are straight, vigorous and, critically, not shading out new growth. — Monty Don Being Copy Share Image
When our jewellery business went into receivership we avoided bankruptcy by selling our houses and possessions. — Monty Don Business Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in trying things, so I've eaten witchetty grubs, a mountain frog, ostrich and alligator. I like tongue, I… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
Trees are complicated, fascinating things, usually older and more beautiful than any of us. — Monty Don Beautiful Copy Share Image
I have always felt that the best gardens aspired to coppice and that the best woods have all the elements of the… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment. — Monty Don Beauty Copy Share Image
Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well. — Monty Don Copy Share Image
Some plants become weeds simply by virtue of their success rather than any other factor. You merely want less of them. — Monty Don Flower Copy Share Image
You get older, you slow down. Failure feels like less of a humiliation and more of a balanced return. — Monty Don Failure Copy Share Image
Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
I think that most people are aware that it takes so much oil and water to produce what they're eating. But the… — Monty Don Eating Copy Share Image
The thing the British hate more than anything else is people who are getting above themselves. There are a hundred different expressions… — Monty Don Authority Copy Share Image
I was brought up a strict Christian. My father was a lay preacher, my mother a church warden. The rhythm and ritual… — Monty Don Anglican Copy Share Image
Happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself. It pops into your life unbidden, and then tends to pop out… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
A weekly column is not always a treat. It can be a tyranny. There are times when I have very little to… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
My basic philosophy is never do anything with the word 'celebrity' attached to it. Without being overly pompous, if you have worked… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
The British have such an odd relationship with food - and the land. I want the public and the Soil Association to… — Monty Don British Copy Share Image
