This week’s Designer Desire post is a little different; we’re featuring a garden designer for the first time. Monty Don is a national treasure to British gardening devotees.
Each Friday evening, we look forward to seeing Monty’s garden at Longmeadow on Gardeners World. His 2-acre garden is sectioned off into zones of different designs and moods. He created a Jewel Garden full of beautiful, colourful flowers and, more recently, the Islamic-influenced Paradise Garden. There are wildlife gardens, vegetable plots, pond area, formal pathways, herbaceous borders… and a writing garden with a brick path leading to a wood-clad shed where Monty works on his books and magazine & newspaper columns.
A couple of months ago, Longmeadow was voted Britain’s best loved garden, and it’s easy to see why. Monty has planted an orchard, grows vegetables, has a herb garden, built a pond and keeps bees. He’s a champion of gardening responsibly; he has designed the different areas and grows plants to encourage insects and wildlife, and eschews the use of plastic pots. We love watching the special relationship he has with his two golden retrievers, Nigel and Nell.
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