The thing I like to stress about TV is that it's a team exercise. You really can't have too much of an ego. — Monty Don 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
My favourite thorn belongs to the rose with a name like a mouthful of broken teeth, Rosa sericea pteracantha. It is grown almost entirely… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
I love filming. I love the teamwork. It's a tight-knit group spending months on the road together. All the experience is shared. — Monty Don 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 for it… — 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 sorts of… — Monty Don 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 hands. I… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise. — 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 or 60… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
When you plant something, you invest in a beautiful future amidst a stressful, chaotic and, at times, downright appalling world. — Monty Don 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
I was brought up a strict Christian. My father was a lay preacher, my mother a church warden. The rhythm and ritual of the… — 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 local and… — 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 of root. — 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 if it's… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
