Monty Don

Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well.

— Monty Don

My favourite thorn belongs to the rose with a name like a mouthful of broken teeth, Rosa sericea pteracantha. It is grown…

— Monty Don

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

The thing the British hate more than anything else is people who are getting above themselves. There are a hundred different expressions…

— Monty Don

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

I do wear gloves for things that sting a lot or prick a lot. But I just like to feel with my…

— Monty Don

I often eat cakes while my fingers are caked in soil.

— Monty Don

We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise.

— Monty Don

The key to our oldest woodland is that it has been cut down and regrown, in some cases as often as 50…

— Monty Don

When you plant something, you invest in a beautiful future amidst a stressful, chaotic and, at times, downright appalling world.

— Monty Don

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

I was brought up a strict Christian. My father was a lay preacher, my mother a church warden. The rhythm and ritual…

— Monty Don

Organic is loaded with a sense of rightness, with a set of rules. I would much rather someone bought food that was…

— Monty Don

Ground elder, introduced by the Romans as a vegetable, is difficult to get rid of because it regrows from the smallest trace…

— Monty Don

We are extremely uncomfortable with the spiritual aspects of gardening, and yet most people feel it in some form or other, even…

— Monty Don

My gardening apprenticeship was similar to the way a chimney sweep is pushed up a chimney. It was enforced by my parents,…

— Monty Don

There is a direct correlation between gardening and mental health, not just to maintain good mental health but to repair it as…

— Monty Don

It does seem to me that the British in particular, British horticultural literature and television programmes, focus a huge amount on how…

— Monty Don

By having a direct stake and involvement with the process of plants growing, of having your hands in the soil and tending…

— Monty Don

I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing…

— Monty Don

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

In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment.

— Monty Don

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

Many gardens are hijacked by their plants and end up looking like a room overstuffed with furniture.

— Monty Don

Chickweed is regarded by most gardeners as just that - a weed - but is excellent in sandwiches or salads.

— Monty Don