No apple is reliably self-fertile, so each tree needs a pollinator. A neighbour may well have an apple that will do that… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
People are increasingly realising that what they eat is important. You can't put junk food in your body and be healthy. All… — Monty Don Diet Copy Share Image
Any British household with a scrap of land has always grown herbs for the kitchen. From the superb monastic herb gardens down… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
Visiting gardens is bad for you. Not only does it encourage too much eating of cake but sets up all kinds of… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
The key to our oldest woodland is that it has been cut down and regrown, in some cases as often as 50… — Monty Don Ecosystems Copy Share Image
Modern man has a very abstract idea of what a wood is. I guess that if you stopped anyone on the street… — Monty Don Abstract Copy Share Image
The Romans brought with them spices such as ginger, pepper and cinnamon, and herbs including borage, chervil, dill, fennel, lovage, sage and… — Monty Don British Copy Share Image
Sweet peas should smell. Half the point of growing sweet peas is to cut them for the house; they should fill a… — Monty Don Beautiful Copy Share Image
That first snowdrop, the flowering of the rose you pruned, a lettuce you grew from seed, the robin singing just for you.… — Monty Don Flowers Copy Share Image
A plant I have grown for years without really taking much notice of is epimedium. You know how it is: someone gives… — Monty Don Flower Copy Share Image
My favourite thorn belongs to the rose with a name like a mouthful of broken teeth, Rosa sericea pteracantha. It is grown… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
I think that the essence of a Christmas wreath - of all Christmas vegetative decoration - has to be green and, if… — Monty Don Christmas Copy Share Image
There is a British assumption that you mustn't speak evil of anyone's garden because it is rude - it is like criticising… — Monty Don British Copy Share Image
By having a direct stake and involvement with the process of plants growing, of having your hands in the soil and tending… — Monty Don Better place Copy Share Image
I don't think about being the Colin Firth of the gardening world. I live a very insular world based around my family… — Monty Don Family Copy Share Image
The divide between a 'wild' plant and what is suitable for the garden is unnatural and meaningless. Gardens begin and end in… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
You would be surprised at how many letters I get criticising me for straying outside the strict limitations of horticulture or even… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to be known as Mr Depression, but I found that when I did dip a toe in the water… — Monty Don Depression Copy Share Image
We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise. That is easy to see and evaluate. It inculcates… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
We are extremely uncomfortable with the spiritual aspects of gardening, and yet most people feel it in some form or other, even… — Monty Don Beautiful Copy Share Image
I do wear gloves for things that sting a lot or prick a lot. But I just like to feel with my… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
Organic is loaded with a sense of rightness, with a set of rules. I would much rather someone bought food that was… — Monty Don Food Copy Share Image
There is a direct correlation between gardening and mental health, not just to maintain good mental health but to repair it as… — Monty Don Brain Copy Share Image
I think that's my strength, that I am an amateur gardener who loves gardening. I've read about it, I've written about it,… — Monty Don Flower Copy Share Image
