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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.
But over the past ten years it has slowly evolved into a traditional, but essentially floral, cottage garden, filled with blowsy, soft colours but also containing fruit trees, rhubarb, gooseberries and some herbs all mingled in together. So we choose vegetables and varieties that we like and which like to grow in our garden.Spring comes slowly to the garden. It's defined by perfectly maintained hedges and bordered by tulips.Monty has been growing vegetables since he was a small child. Think of them as huge garden rooms; they all feel like separate spaces but together they perfectly complement one another.Take a tour of Monty's garden below...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.Imagine walking along this path and just embracing nature and the great outdoors? This means that we eat seasonally as well as use the greenhouse and cloches to protect plants and also plan our succession very carefully so that as one crop comes to an end there are young plants already growing strongly to replace them, either of the same variety or an alternative type according to the season.Our fundamental horticultural belief is that you should never force or cajole a plant of any kind, edible or decorative, if it doesn’t want to be there. 'The garden consisted of a 2 acre abandoned field out the back and a much smaller area in the front covered in builder’s rubble,' Monty describes on his With a lot of planning, TLC and hard work, Monty transformed Longmeadow garden into a peaceful haven filled with his favourite plants and flowers. 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.In 2017 I visited many countries to see their gardens, all of which shared the same basic adherence to Koranic ideals.
Back in October 1991, Monty and his wife Sarah purchased the countryside property with high hopes to restore the garden. Yet from early January the signs are there with snowdrops and aconites appearing and the catkins on the hazels yellow with pollen.By March there is no going back.