Gardening at Longmeadow

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I absorb the help I can get from my neighbour who is a proud dahlia grower and tomato plant seed sower. In my opinion, it isn’t a book to turn to for quick reference or if you’re looking for lists of tasks to do but then it wasn’t designed with this in mind and most gardeners have those books already anyway. Trading Address (Warehouse) Unit E, Vulcan Business Complex, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EB.

His previous books include The Complete Gardener, the Sunday Times bestsellers Nigel and My Garden World, The Jewel Garden with Sarah Don, and Japanese Gardens with Derry Moore, which was shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. We work closely with publishers and authors to ensure that we offer the best books on the market for your child. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. I love his show and how he presents information but it is not always applicable to my living conditions.Monty Don's articles are so well founded, his enthusiasm is contagious and his advice is invaluable. But if you want to know how to have salad leaves for your plate 365 days per year like Monty, then this is definitely for you.

I liked the added touches of a page where he talks about foraging and how the book finishes with Christmas and what are the best presents for gardeners. Following the cycle of the seasons, this book introduces readers to the garden from the earliest snowdrops of January through the first splashes of colour in the spring, the electric summer displays of the jewel garden, the autumn harvest in the orchard, and on to a Christmas feast sourced from the vegetable gardens. A simple pavilion is at the far end that is shaded from the sun but looks out over the whole garden and down through the Orchard beds. It will inspire you to achieve a balanced, healthy garden of your own, that's spilling with produce and full colour all year round. Then, as autumn begins to bite, the Jewel Garden is cut back, tender plants lifted and it hibernates until quite late in Spring to resume its season of blazing glory.A lot of gardening books are written from the perspective of teaching the right way to do things and feel quite strict and a little scary for new gardeners. Throughout June the days are at their longest, the light at its brightest and all the deciduous foliage, be it of an aquilegia or oak tree, is full but still fresh. The book is also an easy read and if you watch Gardeners world it is easy to hear Monty’s voice in your head as you move through the pages. The book starts with an introduction to Longmeadow, with Monty describing how it was a complete blank canvas of farmyard and fields when they first moved there and how he has tried to create a garden that works with nature and sits happily in the landscape.

I consider myself to be an experienced gardener now but I still take great pleasure in looking to Monty’s books and TV programmes for inspiration and ideas. The Paradise Garden is based on ideas of Islamic gardens, and came about after Don made a TV series and a book about the gardens of the Islamic world in 2017. Planting both acknowledges the koranic dictates of fruit with pomegranate, olive and citrus trees but also very British crab apples. Following the cycle of the seasons, Gardening at Longmeadow is a year-long diary of Monty’s gardening wisdom: from the earliest snowdrops of January and the first splashes of colour in the Spring Garden, to the electric summer displays of the Jewel Garden and the autumn harvest in the orchard.He has written a number of books about his gardens and gardens around the world, and also one about his Golden Retriever Nigel, who passed away in 2020 at the age of 11. We do our best to ready the garden for winter by the end of November, protecting tender plants and clearing the decks and then hunker down in December and January before work begins again in earnest in February and the gardening year swings around again. The young hedging plants were then planted in the lee of the fences and grew much faster as a result. From the beginning of the book you get a real sense that Longmeadow is a very special place to the author.