Monty Don Quotes

Monty Don
Monty Don
English Celebrity
Born: Jul 8, 1955
Food Garden Gardening Good Plant You
I loathe nowheres - airports and bland hotels. I would rather be in an unpleasant, uncomfortable place rather than one just adrift, floating around. Monty Don
Loathe Airport Would Unpleasant Rather Bland Uncomfortable Adrift Hotels Around Than Just Place Floating
I'm bad at sleeping. I get somewhere between three and six hours a night. Monty Don
Three Somewhere Sleeping Bad Between Hours Get Six Night
What I love about French gardens is the combination of formal elegance and intellectual questioning. Monty Don
Love I Love About Combination French Intellectual Questioning Formal Elegance Gardens
Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well. Monty Don
Gardening Plants Will Way Right Way Easy Perfectly Most Well Stick Up Ground Grow Right
I do wear gloves for things that sting a lot or prick a lot. But I just like to feel with my hands. I find gloves cumbersome and uncomfortable and I've got tough old hands so the old cut doesn't matter. Monty Don
Matter Old Tough Find Wear Uncomfortable Feel Like Gloves Got Sting Lot Hands Just Cut Things
I have always felt that the best gardens aspired to coppice and that the best woods have all the elements of the very best gardens. Monty Don
Best Felt Always Very Woods Aspired Elements Gardens
I think that most people are aware that it takes so much oil and water to produce what they're eating. But the problem is inherent within the solution, in so much as you don't want to tell people what to do. Monty Don
You People Problem Water Think I Think Tell Solution Eating Takes Most Within Oil Want Produce Much Inherent Aware
A weekly column is not always a treat. It can be a tyranny. There are times when I have very little to say. There are times, every year, when I am weighed down with depression. At these times it takes days of slog to force the words on to the page. Monty Don
Depression Words Treat I Am Tyranny Year Down Every Say Weekly Weighed Column Takes Days Force Always Am Very Times Little Page
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
Difficult Introduced Vegetable Smallest Trace Because Get Romans Elder Root Ground Rid
Bamboos can go from shining health to shabbiness in weeks. The problem is too much wind, too little water and tired compost. Monty Don
Health Tired Problem Water Too Much Wind Too Weeks Go Shining Little Much
A column is a curiously intimate affair. For a start, you know by default that you will have regular readers, so it gives the writer the privilege of continuing a running conversation with them. Monty Don
You Conversation Will Intimate Running Gives Writer Column Know Readers Affair Continuing Privilege Curiously Them Regular Default Start
Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment. Monty Don
Change Gardening Comforting Constancy Constant Inevitably Fixed Any Process Moment
When you plant something, you invest in a beautiful future amidst a stressful, chaotic and, at times, downright appalling world. Monty Don
Beautiful Future You World Plant Chaotic Something Invest Times Appalling Amidst Downright Stressful
Woods are rich with biodiversity and, above all, places of trees and light that spangles a thousand greens through the leaves. Monty Don
Light Rich Trees Thousand Above Through Leaves Greens Woods Places Biodiversity
I have learnt that gardens are like happiness: you cannot pursue them as an absolute thing or moment. Monty Don
Happiness You Absolute Pursue Like Learnt Cannot Them Moment Gardens Thing
My favourite thorn belongs to the rose with a name like a mouthful of broken teeth, Rosa sericea pteracantha. It is grown almost entirely for its astonishing ruby-red shark's fin thorns that are at their lapidary best in early summer, especially when backlit by a low setting sun. Monty Don
Best Broken Rose Setting Setting Sun Teeth Summer Thorn Thorns Astonishing Sun Favourite Entirely Shark Almost Name Like Low Rosa Grown Early Belongs
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
Creative Space Farm Sort Ready Lot Up Urges Uses Rough Film
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
Love Together Experience Group Spending Months I Love Shared Road Teamwork Filming
For every gardener there is a minimum level of engagement that is needed to sustain and develop the relationship. There is no magic figure to this and it will vary from person to person and season to season, but it is there. Monty Don
Relationship Will Every Minimum Magic Vary Develop Person Sustain Engagement Figure Gardener Season Level Needed
You get older, you slow down. Failure feels like less of a humiliation and more of a balanced return. Monty Don
Failure You Humiliation Slow Down Older More Feels Like Balanced Return Get Less
The Romans brought with them spices such as ginger, pepper and cinnamon, and herbs including borage, chervil, dill, fennel, lovage, sage and thyme, all of which have remained staples of the British kitchen. Monty Don
Spices Ginger Pepper Brought Kitchen Remained Sage Romans Which Them Including Herbs British
Plant breeding has been going on for millennia and it's a gradual process. Monty Don
Plant Has-Been Been Gradual Going Process Breeding Millennia
My father was an army officer who left the forces when I was six and never really fitted back into civilian life. My mother had five children and a mother with Alzheimer's, who lived with us, so I imagined that she had a lot to do. Monty Don
Life Army Mother Father Back Civilian Never Had She Forces Alzheimer Lot Left Fitted Five Officer Six Children Us Really Who Lived Imagined
The more people share woodland, absorb it and regard it as part of their personal heritage and culture, the richer our society will be. The more people can work in woods and use them practically rather than go through the motions as a kind of ersatz exercise, the more they will care for the places themselves rather than the political idea of them. Monty Don
Work Culture People Political Care Will Society Heritage Our Kind Rather More More People Through Share Part Absorb Idea Practically Exercise Motions Go Than Personal Woodland Woods Regard Places Them Themselves Richer Use
From the ages of 18 to 50 I ran, rowed and lifted weights at my home gym. Monty Don
Home Ran Gym Lifted Weights Ages
We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise. That is easy to see and evaluate. It inculcates high levels of well-being. That is undeniable and needs little measurement. Monty Don
Good Needs You Gardening Measurement High Easy See Undeniable Know Well-Being Exercise Little Fantastic Evaluate Levels
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