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Known as Longmeadow garden, there's plenty to admire, including an abundance of beautiful plants providing year-round colour, symmetrical beds centred upon a water feature, an orchard providing over 50 different varieties of apples, and topiary of his golden retriever Nigel. As lead presenter of the gardening show, Monty has been presenting from his own garden since But it didn't always look like this.

Back in October , Monty and his wife Sarah purchased the countryside property with high hopes to restore the garden. With a lot of planning, TLC and hard work, Monty transformed Longmeadow garden into a peaceful haven filled with his favourite plants and flowers. Think of them as huge garden rooms; they all feel like separate spaces but together they perfectly complement one another.

Corner of the Cottage Garden. Monty Don's cottage garden was first used as a vegetable patch, but, over the years, the gardener has transformed it into a traditional space filled with soft colours, fruit trees and over 50 kinds of old-fashioned shrub roses.

The Long Walk. Imagine walking along this path and just embracing nature and the great outdoors? It's defined by perfectly maintained hedges and bordered by tulips.

Veg garden. Monty has been growing vegetables since he was a small child. At Longmeadow, Monty grows vegetables across two sites, all arranged into different raised beds.

I shall be adding to this weekly through April to cover all veg, herbs and fruit. When it comes to growing produce, Monty said on his blog that his and Sarah's goal 'is to always have a supply of a good choice of vegetables that we enjoy eating on every single day of the year'.

Hens are happy- but not laying yet. But when they do, Light Sussex are good layers with eggs a year each. Monty's impressive glass greenhouse is packed with containers for optimum growing. The house feels easy in its skin and has been organised entirely to suit us — we never plan to sell it. Although there is one room that has never really had its potential realised.

When we arrived it was a rat— infested storage barn dating from about Then it became my tool shed, before being incorporated into the house and for many years used as a gym. The plan now is to make it into a garden room, which may or may not happen! Love, happiness, peace, family, creativity, health. The centre of my world. I never want to be anywhere more than I want to be at home.

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English Summer Escapes: Georgie Pearman. Best ways to accessorise with seaside nostalgia. 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. Roses are at their best, large-flowered clematis are glorious and plants like Iris, foxgloves, alliums and lupins crown the borders.

There is a a real sense of the garden coming magnificently into being but still rich with the promise of more to come. The Jewel garden really hits its stride in August and September despite the shortening days because the nights are warm and dahlias, bananas, zinnias, tithonia, sunflowers, helianthus, nicotiana and cosmos are flowering exuberantly.

By mid September the garden is gently beginning to become wraith-like and withdrawn. It is as though the garden is disappearing somewhere where I cannot follow. But the lemon light of September is both radiant and wistful, touched simultaneously with glory and regret.

It is also the season of fruitfulness with the orchard providing over 50 different varieties of apples and the vegetable garden offering its final rich summer harvest. Another autumnal harvest we treasure are the falling leaves.

Every one is gathered and stored to make leaf-mould which rots down to become an essential component of our home-made potting compost and a perfect mulch for woodland plants. We always hope for a cold, dry winter although with climate change a very wet, rather mild one is becoming all too common.

But when it is wet for weeks and we do not see the sun at all for days on end then it is miserable and gardening dribbles to a soggy halt. 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. Cart 0. The Garden Creating Longmeadow.

That was it. There was one tree - the hazel in what is now the Spring Garden — and everything else was rough grass, nettles and brambles. View fullsize. Go to Seasons Gallery. The Garden plan. The Cottage Garden The Cottage garden spent the first 20 years of its existence as a dedicated vegetable garden, conveniently near the kitchen and supplying the family with all our fresh produce.

The Paradise Garden In I visited many countries to see their gardens, all of which shared the same basic adherence to Koranic ideals. The Vegetable Garden I have grown vegetables since I was a small child and growing our own vegetables, herbs and fruit has always been an essential ingredient in the lives of Sarah and I.

The Garden through the seasons.