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I had a difficult relationship with my parents, who died young, but they instilled self-discipline and a sense of honour and loyalty and accountability. I'm grateful for that.
- Monty Don
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#Loyalty
#Parents
#Relationship
I was a sickly child, and it wasn't until I was 19 that I realised I was quite a robust, vigorous person. Since then I've taken ill health to be an irritating interruption into what is a fairly reliable stream of good health.
- Monty Don
#Child
#Good Health
#Good
#Health
#Person
I often eat cakes while my fingers are caked in soil.
- Monty Don
#Eat
#Fingers
#Often
#Soil
#While
I have learnt that gardens are like happiness: you cannot pursue them as an absolute thing or moment.
- Monty Don
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#Happiness
#Like
#Moment
#Pursue
Tony Blair is a dreadful man; really truly dreadful.
- Monty Don
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#Dreadful
#Man
#Really
#Truly
You get older, you slow down. Failure feels like less of a humiliation and more of a balanced return.
- Monty Don
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#Failure
#Humiliation
#More
#Slow
We don't value food in Britain, so therefore the cheaper it is the better it is. We all eat far too much, we all pay far too little for our food. We have environmental problems, we have health problems, we have food transport problems.
- Monty Don
#Environmental
#Far
#Food
#Health
#Value
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
#Back
#Children
#Father
#Life
#Mother
The thing the British hate more than anything else is people who are getting above themselves. There are a hundred different expressions for it all around the country, but it comes down to the same thing: this inherent mistrust of authority, and trying to topple people off a pedestal.
- Monty Don
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#Country
#Hate
#People
#Trying
Earth heals me better than any medicine.
- Monty Don
#Better
#Earth
#Heals
#Me
#Medicine
Some plants become weeds simply by virtue of their success rather than any other factor. You merely want less of them.
- Monty Don
#Plants
#Simply
#Success
#Want
#Weeds
Organic is loaded with a sense of rightness, with a set of rules. I would much rather someone bought food that was local and sustainable but not organic than bought organic food that had to be shipped across the world.
- Monty Don
#Food
#Organic Food
#Rules
#Sense
#World
I am always more interested in people than plants. Nature doesn't make gardens, people make gardens. And the story of a garden is always the story of a person.
- Monty Don
#I Am
#Nature
#People
#Person
#Plants
That first snowdrop, the flowering of the rose you pruned, a lettuce you grew from seed, the robin singing just for you. These are smallthings but all positive, all healing in a way that medicine tries to mimic.
- Monty Don
#First
#Medicine
#Positive
#Rose
#Singing
#Way
Woods are rich with biodiversity and, above all, places of trees and light that spangles a thousand greens through the leaves.
- Monty Don
#Biodiversity
#Light
#Places
#Rich
#Woods
Daffodils, blossom and tulips jostle to the front of the stage in April. I love these early perennials: they may be more modest but they nearly all have that one special quality that a plant needs to transform your affections from admiration to affection - charm.
- Monty Don
#Affection
#Blossom
#Love
#Plant
#Quality
If I'm honest, the thing I am proudest of is my varieties of wild flowers in the hay meadow.
- Monty Don
#Flowers
#Hay
#I Am
#Meadow
#Wild
I think that's my strength, that I am an amateur gardener who loves gardening. I've read about it, I've written about it, I've done it all my life but at heart, I'm just a passionate amateur gardener.
- Monty Don
#Gardening
#Heart
#I Am
#Life
#Strength
I don't think about being the Colin Firth of the gardening world. I live a very insular world based around my family and my home, and to them I'm not the Colin Firth of anything.
- Monty Don
#Family
#Gardening
#Home
#Live
#World
We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise.
- Monty Don
#Exercise
#Gardening
#Good
#Know
#You
I think we put far too much interest in trying to get ten to 20 year olds interested in gardening. I think you should do everything you can to try and get them interested up to the age of 10.
- Monty Don
#Age
#Everything
#Gardening
#Try
#Trying
There is a direct correlation between gardening and mental health, not just to maintain good mental health but to repair it as well - that's anything in the gamut from depression to serious brain damage, schizophrenia or autism.
- Monty Don
#Brain
#Gardening
#Good
#Health
#Serious
I just think that gardening is about the future, a slow thing, that is deep and spiritual as well as spiritually rewarding.
- Monty Don
#Deep
#Future
#Gardening
#Slow
#Spiritual
Gardening is seen as a pastime that is almost like belonging to the Church of England - a sign of maturity and wisdom and right thinking.
- Monty Don
#Gardening
#Maturity
#Thinking
#Wisdom
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
#Exercise
#Gardening
#Good
#Well-Being
Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well.
- Monty Don
#Easy
#Gardening
#Grow
#Plants
#Way
#Will
My gardening apprenticeship was similar to the way a chimney sweep is pushed up a chimney. It was enforced by my parents, non-negotiable - it would be weeding the strawberries, mowing the grass.
- Monty Don
#Gardening
#Grass
#Parents
#Up
#Way
We are extremely uncomfortable with the spiritual aspects of gardening, and yet most people feel it in some form or other, even if it's a sense of connection to the greater world on a beautiful day.
- Monty Don
#Beautiful
#Day
#Feel
#Gardening
#People
#World
The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions.
- Monty Don
#Desire
#Gardening
#Good
#Know
#Questions
I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.
- Monty Don
#Angry
#Escape
#Gardening
#Nothing
#Peace
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
#Any
#Change
#Gardening
#Moment
#Process
People are increasingly realising that what they eat is important. You can't put junk food in your body and be healthy. All sorts of problems can develop, like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, strokes. Gardening not only helps with exercise and mental health, but it can improve diet as well.
- Monty Don
#Diet
#Food
#Gardening
#Health
#Heart
I think that the essence of a Christmas wreath - of all Christmas vegetative decoration - has to be green and, if possible, living. So the basis of a wreath is ideally holly, laurel, ivy, rosemary, larch, fir or whatever is to hand.
- Monty Don
#Christmas
#Green
#Ivy
#Living
#Possible
I use the period between Christmas and New Year to potter about, think and completely change my mindset. In that easy no-man's-land between Boxing Day and New Year, loins are girded and mettle readied. It is time, as we voyagers bid farewell to the old year, to fare forward.
- Monty Don
#Change
#Christmas
#Day
#New
#Time
When you plant something, you invest in a beautiful future amidst a stressful, chaotic and, at times, downright appalling world.
- Monty Don
#Beautiful
#Chaotic
#Future
#Plant
#World
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