My Garden World: the Sunday Times bestseller

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But a joy to finish in January 2022 under a blanket with a cup of tea in front of the fire as the snow piles up outside. Evocative for me because I grew up in the Welsh Marches and really, really miss seeing the changes across the seasons.

Tales and insight into his childhood, gardening and daily life were interesting in the most part but I did find certain parts of the book like trawling through an encyclopedia and it did tend to drag at those points. Already 400 pages in paperback, I suppose a possibly 1,200 page doorstopper if pictures were included might not have been possible though.His previous books include the Sunday Times bestseller Nigel, The Jewel Garden, Paradise Gardens and Japanese Gardens with Derry Moore , which was shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Awards. I grew to enjoy his no nonsense criticism of human practices that have destroyed so much of the natural world. I will keep this book and revisit it over time, I feel I learnt so much from it and hopefully will be able to filter it along to others.

I found the book incredibly informative and I applied several of Monty’s suggestions in my garden throughout the seasons. My Garden World is Monty Don's personal journey through the natural year, month by month, season by season, observed from the immediate world around him. But over the past 20 years, their appearances have become increasingly infrequent, increasingly brief.

I'm not comfortable with his ambivalence about huntin' and shootin', but then I don't own a large estate in Shropshire and a farm on the Welsh hills.

The chunky dark orange hardboard cover with colourful dust-jacket opens to 422 matte finish pages, split over the months of the year within the 4 seasons (image below refers). I really enjoyed this book as it was a revelation into the personality of Monty as well as a wonderful account of the nature he encounters throughout the year in his garden. Love a bit of Monty - his encyclopedic knowledge of the countryside and it's inhabitants took me back to the days of Jack Hargreaves and "Out of town". This year has given us the enforced opportunity to learn more about the fascinating natural world around us.cm, it is a narrower format than I was expecting but it is a handy size to curl up in an armchair with to read Monty's observations on all sorts of things, often quite similar to my own feelings, e. From a very early age I loved the countryside as much as any garden and was fascinated by the life that I saw all around me from trees, wildflowers, birds, insects and mammals.