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Monty Don

Montagu Denis Wyatt DonOBEDLVMH(bornGeorge Montagu Don;8 July 1955) is an Englishhorticulturist,broadcaster, and writer who is best known as the lead presenter of theBBCgardening television seriesGardeners' World.

Monty Don
OBEDLVMH
Don in 2011
Born
George Montagu Don

(1955-07-08)8 July 1955(age 69)
Iserlohn,West Germany
NationalityEnglish
Other namesMontagu Denis Wyatt Don
Alma materMagdalene College, Cambridge
Occupations
  • Horticulturist
  • broadcaster
  • writer
Years active1989–present
TelevisionGardeners' World
SpouseSarah Erskine (1983–present)
Websitemontydon.com

Born in Germany and raised in England, Don studied atMagdalene College, Cambridge,where he met his future wife. They ran a successfulcostume jewellerybusiness through the 1980s until thestock market crash of 1987resulted in almost complete bankruptcy. In 1989, Don made his television debut as a regular onThis Morningwith a gardening segment, which led to further television work across the decade including his own shows forBBC TelevisionandChannel 4.Don began his writing career at this time and published his first of over 25 books, in 1990. Between 1994 and 2006, Don wrote a weekly gardening column inThe Observer.

In 2003, Don replacedAlan Titchmarsh,at his suggestion, as the lead presenter ofGardeners' World,only leaving the show between 2008 and 2011 owing to illness. Since then he has written and produced several garden series of his own, the most recent beingMonty Don's Spanish Gardenswhich aired in 2024.

Early life and education

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George Montagu Don was born on 8 July 1955 inIserlohn,West Germany.[1]He is the youngest of five children to British parents Denis Thomas Keiller Don, acareer soldierstationed in Germany at the time of his birth, and Janet Montagu (néeWyatt). Soon after Don's birth, his parents changed the name on his birth certificate to Montagu Denis Don because of a family spat over the name. When Don was 10, he added his mother's maiden name, becoming Montagu Denis Wyatt Don.[2]

Don is a descendant of botanistGeorge Donand the Keiller family, best known as the inventors ofKeiller's marmalade.[3][4][5]On his maternal side, he is descended from theWyatt familyof architects.[6]Don has a twin sister, Alison, who at the age of 19 was nearly killed in a car accident, suffering a broken neck and blindness.[3]

When Don was one, the family moved toHampshire,England.[5]He described his parents as "very strict".[7]He attended three independent schools: Quidhampton School inBasingstoke,followed by Bigshotte School inWokingham,where at seven, he was asked to leave school for being too boisterous.[5]He then attendedMalvern CollegeinMalvern,which he hated,[2]followed by a state comprehensive school, theVyne School,[8]and a state sixth form college,Queen Mary's College, Basingstoke.[citation needed]He failed his A-levels and while studying for retakes at night school, worked on a building site and a pig farm by day. During his childhood he had become an avid gardener and farmer.[5][2]

In his late teens, Don spent several months inAix-en-Provence,France where he worked as a gardener and played rugby in local teams.[9][10]He returned to England, determined to attendCambridge Universityout of "sheer bloody-mindedness",[3]and passed the entrance exams. He studied English atMagdalene College,[8][11]during which time he met his future wife Sarah Erskine, a trained jeweller and architect.[5][12][10]Don took up boxing to impress his father, a former heavyweight boxing champion in the army, becoming aCambridge Half Bluefor boxing. He gave up after getting knocked out and suffering concussion.[8]

Career

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Jewellery business

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In 1981, Don and Erskine started Monty Don Jewellery, a London-based business that designed, made, and soldcostume jewellery.The company became a success and in five years, operated from a shop onBeauchamp PlaceinKnightsbridgewith hundreds of outworkers and had secured as many as 60 outlets across the UK, includingHarrods,Harvey Nichols,andLiberty.Among their customers wereBoy George,Michael Jackson,andPrincess Diana.However, the1987 stock market crashcaused an almost complete bankruptcy as it cut off American sales, their biggest market.[13][14]

The situation prompted Don to embark on a career in writing and broadcasting. Reflecting on the experience, he wrote: "We were lambs to the slaughter and we lost everything, [...] we lost our house, our business. We sold every stick of furniture we had atLeominstermarket ". He was unemployed from 1991 to 1993, and spent all of 1992 onthe dole.[2][3]Some of their jewellery is kept at theV&A Museum.

Television

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Early career

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By mid-1989, Don had written several gardening articles and his home garden was featured in various publications. The increased exposure opened doors: soon Don was writing a gardening column for theMail on Sunday,had a book deal, and an invitation toscreen testfor a proposed weekly live gardening segment on theITVtelevision breakfast showThis Morning.Don landed the spot and his first segment aired in October 1989, receiving £100 a show.[15][16]

After 26 spots onThis Morning,Don landed additional television work as presenter on theBBC TelevisionshowsHolidayandTomorrow's World.Though he had some doubts about being a presenter, he took the jobs as he felt desperate for work.[15]In November 1999,Channel 4started to air the gardening seriesFork to Fork,in which Don and his wife presented segments on growing and cooking organic vegetables.[17]This was followed by three other series hosted by Don between 1999 and 2003:Real Gardens,Lost Gardens,andDon Roaming.

Gardeners' World

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Don presenting atGardeners' World Livein 2012

In September 2002, the BBC announced Don as the new lead presenter of its long-running seriesGardeners' Worldfrom 2003, succeedingAlan Titchmarsh.[18]Don is the first self-taught horticulturist presenter in the show's history.[2][19]Don hosted the show until he put his career on hold to recover fromhis minor strokein 2008, and the show continued withToby Bucklandfilling in as host. During Don's initial stint, viewing figures fell from 5 million to 2 million, this fall being most frequently blamed on the BBC's decision to change the show's format soon after Don's arrival.[20]After viewing figures fell below two million for the first time in 2009,[21]the BBC announced further changes to the programme to entice viewers back.[22]In December 2010, Don announced his return as host for the 2011 series.[23][24]Reaction to the announcement was divided on the programme's blog.[25]

Initially, Don filmed episodes ofGardeners' Worldin Berryfields, a rented garden inStratford-upon-Avon.When he returned as host in 2011, Don began to present from his own garden, Longmeadow,[26][27]inIvington,Herefordshire. He was frequently seen on screen with hisGolden RetrieverNigeluntil the dog died in May 2020,[28][29]shortly before its 12th birthday. In 2016, Don introduced viewers to his new golden retriever, Nell.[30]This was followed by the addition of Patti, aYorkshire Terrier,in April 2020.[31]Nell was diagnosed with cancer in June 2023 and died in October 2023.[32]In 2020, Don signed a contract with the BBC to continue presentingGardeners' Worldfor three years.[9]

In February 2024, Don clarified that he had no immediate plans to leaveGardeners World,saying, "I'm now 68, I was going to stop when I was 65. I'll now go on till I'm 70 and then reconsider. The reason for that is that, apart from anything else, it's not so much wanting my garden back, although there’s a strong element of that... It's just that, whilst I've still got energy, there are lots of other projects I want to do that mean I can't be here every week."[33]

Own series

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Don in 2007

Don is also known for writing and presenting his own series. In 2005, he set up a 6-acre (2.4 ha)smallholdingin Herefordshire so a group of young drug offenders could work the land. The project was documented for the BBC seriesGrowing Out of Trouble,airing in 2006.[2]This was followed by the ambitious BBC seriesAround the World in 80 Gardensin 2008, where Don visited 80 gardens of a variety of styles worldwide.[34]

In 2010, Don presentedMy Dream Farm,a Channel 4 series which helped people learn to become successful smallholders,[35][36]andMastercrafts,a BBC series which celebrated six traditional British crafts.[37]Monty Don's Italian Gardensaired on the BBC in 2011,[38]which was followed byMonty Don's French Gardens,in 2013.[39]Later that year, Don presented an episode ofGreat British Garden Revival.In 2014, Don became the lead presenter for the BBC's flagshipChelsea Flower Showcoverage, again replacing Titchmarsh.[citation needed]In 2023 he presented alongsideJoe SwiftandSophie Raworth.[40]

Since 2014, Don has presented three series ofBig Dreams, Small Spaces,[41]where he helps amateur gardeners in creating their own "dream spaces" at home. In 2015, Don presented the four-part BBC seriesThe Secret History of the British Garden,charting the development of British gardens from the 17th to the 20th century.[42]Don's next series wasMonty Don's Paradise Gardensin 2018, travelling across the Islamic world and beyond in search ofparadise gardensand considering their place in theQuran.[43][44][45]This was followed byMonty Don's Japanese Gardensin 2019,[46]Monty Don's American Gardensin 2020,[47]Monty Don's Adriatic Gardensin 2022,[48]Monty Don's Spanish Gardensin 2024.[49]andMonty Don's British Gardensin 2025.[50]

Writer

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Don has described himself primarily as a writer, "who happens to have lots of television work."[9]By the early 1990s, Don had written two unpublished novels,The Clematis AffairandAn Afternoon in Padua.He later described them as "excruciatingly bad".[51]In January 1994, Allan Jenkins, then editor ofThe Observer,invited Don to write a weekly gardening column for the newspaper. The column began in February of that year and lasted until May 2006; Jenkins was his editor for seven years.[9]In a piece from 2004 to commemorate the tenth year of the column, Don wrote: "It has been more life-changing than any other work I have done in my adult life."[52]Don has written articles for theDaily Mailand Mail Online since 2004.[citation needed]

In 2005RoutledgepublishedThe Jewel Garden: A Story of Despair and Redemption,a joint autobiography and the story of Don and his wife Sarah's home and gardens at Longmeadow.[53][54]In 2016Hodder Bookspublished anaudiobookof Don'sNigel: My Family and Other Dogs,read by the author.[55]

Style and reception

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Between 2008 and 2016, Don was President of theSoil Association.[56]He is currently a patron ofBees for DevelopmentTrust[57]and thePope's GrottoPreservation Trust.[58]

Don had never received formal training as a gardener. In 2006, he commented, "I was – am – an amateur gardener and a professional writer. My only authority came from a lifetime of gardening and a passion amounting to an obsession for my own garden."[59]

Don is a keen proponent oforganic gardening,becoming "officially" organic in his own garden in 1997.[52]The practice of organic techniques often features in his published and broadcast work. The organic approach is most prominent in his 2003 bookThe Complete Gardener.This has led him into some controversy with those advocating non-organic techniques, with some criticising his position of influence presentingGardeners' Worldand exclusion of non-organic solutions to pests and diseases in the garden.[60]

Don's sartorial style in the garden has been the subject of some critical attention, withRichard D. Northcommenting, in 2013:[61]

At home and abroad, Monty Don is thepaysan manqué.Where an arts presenter might eschew the little black Armani suit and the dazzling white shirt for the crumpled linen, Don’s gear retreats into the manly rumpledon of a workman’s cotton drill. He is not quite the Mr McGregor of thePotterbooks: real-life ancient gardeners wore mighty cords and moleskins, tweeds and flannels – and sacks if the weather was bad enough. The Don affectation is one tad more painterly than that. ... I guess that this is where we come up against the row within Monty Don, between the lightly earthy garden enthusiast and the grimmer unworldly hippy moralist. Well, we all have an inner cheerfully accepting Cavalier, and it does battle with our gloomier Roundhead.

In 2005, Don himself dedicated a whole column to this subject, commenting:[62]

I get lots of emails, lots of letters. A few are crazed, quite a few astonishingly demanding... quite a surprisingly large chunk of letters and emails are about one specific topic that is at first appearance only tangentially about gardening. These are the ones asking me about the clothes that I garden in.

Don wears a collar and tie when presenting the Chelsea Flower Show.

In June 2020,Prospectmagazine declared Don "the nation's gardener".[9]ComedianJoe Lycetthas described Monty Don as agay icon.[63]

Personal life

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Family

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Don married Sarah Erskine in 1983. They have two sons and a daughter.[2]The couple lived inIslington,north London, while Don pursued postgraduate study at theLondon School of Economicsand worked as a waiter at Joe Allen restaurant inCovent Gardenand later as abinman.The couple then moved to theDe Beauvoir Townarea ofHackneywhere they made their first garden.[64]

In 1989, they relocated to The Hanburies, a country house in Herefordshire. The making of the garden there, and the subsequent loss of the house in the aftermath of the crash of their jewellery business, was the subject of Don's first book,The Prickotty Bush.In 1991, the Dons bought a home inIvington,Herefordshire where they started to create a new garden named Longmeadow. The home was unfit to live in at the time of purchase, so while they refurbished it they rented a home inLeominsterthat was infested with rats and had no heating.[65]They moved into their Ivington home at the end of 1992.[16][66]

Nigel and other dogs

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Nigel in 2019

Don has owned many dogs throughout his adult life. Two that he currently owns are Ned, aGolden Retriever,and Patti, aYorkshire terrier;which are seen on camera with Don onGardeners' World.[67]Nellie, another Golden Retriever, died in October 2023.[68]He also owns dogs that are not featured on the show.[69]The coppice at Longmeadow holds the graves of Dons' many pets, including dogs Nigel, Nellie, Beaufort, Red, Poppy and Barry, and cats Stimpy and Blue.[70]Don also has a sheep farm, on which he keeps 500 ewes.[65]

Nigel was a male Golden Retriever dog owned by Don. Nigel made many appearances onGardeners' World,sometimes with Nellie. The dog was chosen as a seven-week-old puppy from a litter in theForest of Deanon 1 July 2008,[71]and was popular with viewers who were concerned when he disappeared from the programme in September 2012. He had injured himself after twisting sideways when jumping to catch a tennis ball and had ruptured anintervertebral discin hisspine.[72]Nigel recovered and resumed his television appearances.[71]

Don said that he had chosen Nigel because thedomestic dogsignifies the good and bad in human relationships with nature; humans can prioritise fluffy animals over others.[73][71]In September 2016 anautobiographyentitledNigel: My Family and Other Dogswas published, telling the story of Nigel and the other dogs in Don's life, including the female golden retriever, Nellie.[71]On 11 May 2020 Don announced, through hisTwitterandInstagrampages, that Nigel had died, six days before his 12th birthday.[74][75][28][29]Don told the BBC Radio 4Todayprogramme that Nigel had been more than a companion and had helped him with his struggles withdepression.He said, "He was a bear of slightly limited brain, what he had was this absolute sense of purity. He exuded a kind of unsullied innocence and we all love our dogs, everybody thinks their dog is special, I've had lots of dogs and there was something special about Nigel."[76][77]As with Don's other dogs, Nigel and Nellie are buried in the garden at Longmeadow.[78]

Health

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Don has suffered withdepressionsince his mid-twenties.[52]He first wrote about his experiences with it, and its effect on his personal life, in a piece forThe Observerin 2000.[16]His editor recalled that it "changed the way that people saw him" and Don himself said the article generated "a very immediate response" from readers.[9]Don recalled "great spans of muddy time" in his life and realised that gardening "heals me better than any medicine".[2]This quote served as the inspiration forWilliam Doyle's 2021 albumGreat Spans of Muddy Time.[79]

At one point, Don's wife threatened to leave with their children if he did not seek help. After receivingcognitive behavioural therapyand takingProzacfor a short time, Don quit both when he realised his depression was mostly seasonal, which he attributed toseasonal affective disorder,and found relief with alight box.[2]

In August 2007, Don suffered from a bout ofperitonitis,an abdominal infection. His wife had found him unconscious on the floor and he was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery.[2]

In February 2008, Don suffered a minorstrokeat home. He had been feeling unwell since the previous Christmas, owing mostly to exhaustion from travelling to filmAround the World in 80 Gardens.When his symptoms did not improve, abrain scanweeks later revealed a temporary blockage in one of the arteries to his brain. In May 2008 he put his career on hold to recover.[2][19]

In 2015, Don said that years of gardening had left him with sore knees, one of which causes constant pain and needs replacing.[65]

In May 2022, it was reported that Don hadCOVID-19and had been bedridden for four days.[80][81]He contracted COVID-19 again in May 2023.[82]

Other

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In July 2006, he appeared onBBC Radio 4'sDesert Island Discs,choosing an eclectic mix of pop and classical records;the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night"was his favourite disc, his book choice wasCollected PoemsbyHenry Vaughanand his luxury item the paintingHendrikje BathingbyRembrandt.[83]

In 2006, Don had launched the Monty Don Project, an effort to assist drug users by involving them in agriculture and gardening. The project was the focus of both a book and a TV series,Growing Out Of Trouble.[84][85]

Honours

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Don was made anOfficer of the Order of the British Empire(OBE) in the2018 Birthday Honoursfor services to horticulture, to broadcasting and to charity.[86]

In May 2022, he was awarded theVictoria Medal of Honourby the council of theRoyal Horticultural Society.[87]

Don was appointed as adeputy lieutenantofHerefordshireon 14 October 2024.[88]

Publications

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Books

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  • The Prickotty Bush(1990)
  • The Weekend Gardener(1995)
  • The Sensuous Garden(1997)
  • Gardening Mad(1998; with Fleur Olby)
  • Urban Jungle: The Simple Way to Tame Your Town Garden(1998)
  • Fork to Fork(1999; released asFrom the Garden to the Table: Growing, Cooking, and Eating Your Own Foodin 2003)
  • The Complete Gardener(2003; 2nd edn. 2021)
  • The Jewel Garden(2004; with Sarah Don)
  • Gardeners' World: Gardening from Berryfields(2005)
  • The Organic Gardener(2005)
  • Growing Out of Trouble(2006)
  • My Roots: A Decade in the Garden(2006)
  • Around the World in 80 Gardens(2008)
  • The Ivington Diaries(2009)
  • My Dream Farm(2010)
  • The Home Cookbook(2010; with Sarah Don)
  • Extraordinary Gardens of the World(2010)
  • The Great Gardens of Italy(2011; withDerry Moore)
  • Gardening at Longmeadow(2012)
  • The Road to Le Tholonet: A French Garden Journey(2013)
  • Nigel: My Family and Other Dogs(2016)
  • Down to Earth: Gardening Wisdom(2017)
  • Paradise Gardens: The World's Most Beautiful Islamic Gardens(2018; with Derry Moore)
  • Japanese Gardens: A Journey(2019; with Derry Moore)
  • My Garden World: The Natural Year(2020)
  • American Gardens(2020; with Derry Moore)
  • Venetian Gardens(2022; with Derry Moore)
  • The Gardening Book(2023)

DVDs

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References

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