Monty Don’s garden

Front door key.

I give names to our garden. The front, the bottom, the middle bit and the lawn. Easy. Oh and the washing line bit.

Whitewavemark2 I have a tortoise hibernating in the garage - I do have a fridge in there but she's not in that as it's currently storing the necessary accoutrements for Wine Corner!

Hmm the front and the back garden. We still have a front garden unlike most of our neighbours who have paved over for parking.

Monty's garden is huge. More like a small country estate. I wonder how many staff he has 🤔

I do envy Monty his spacious potting sheds and workbenchs. I get moaned at for using our utility room to pot things on or plant seeds. When his paint brushes need cleaning DH resents battling through hanging laundry to access the sink only to find my plant pots got there first! I remind him that his four bikes and their stuff clutter up the garage ...

I looked at how much his new greenhouse would be and they are a five figure sum

This is why I love the short visits to viewers’ gardens. Makeshift greenhouses, washing up bowls perched on windowsills, pots crammed into every nook and cranny. You can just feel the joy coming out of some of these gardens.

We were talking about this, this morning merlotgran. How much people achieve in such small spaces too

JaneJudge

I looked at how much his new greenhouse would be and they are a five figure sum

😲
Ours was £20, 2nd hand from a friend years ago, DH has probably spent more than that on replacing panes of glass but it does its job.

Mind you, it's tiny compared to Monty's.
But we had lbs of grapes last year 🍇

our greenhouse cost over £500 which I thought was more than enough! but these ARE beautiful but I doubt are aimed at the likes of me

shop.nationaltrust.org.uk/national-trust-alitex-scotney-greenhouse.html?nosto=nosto-page-category2

I've added it to my basket 😀

Oh do they have basket size ones also ?

I’ve got the gin bench, just outside kitchen French doors, next bit down is the jungle, where I grow a sad banana plant, three mahonia trees, tree lilies, red hot pokers, I do have a spaniel, who loves to go straight through, not round anything and the mini orchard at the end.

Also have a front garden, Italian in style, well sort of😳🤣

The greenhouse is beautiful JaneJudge, but for that price I'd want a full-time gardener thrown in!

I’d want a full-time gardener thrown in!. Thrown into the greenhouse?! (A la Lady Chatterley’s lover?)

MrsKen33

Oh do they have basket size ones also ?

😂

Only if it was Monty, Sarah75!

Monty Don's garden has a rather unkempt look - I love it though it isn't the way I'd plan a large garden .

He must have help as it really is massive .

I enjoy listening to him - he is quite poetic .

One thing that I really don't like about him - he complained about the unsightly polytunnels in his county to the local council .

They belong to ordinary hard working people , who don't have the luxury of a BBC salary .

Beechnut

Thanks Sarah75.
Does anyone else give names to different sections of their garden? I do 😃

The Med bed
Triangle bed
Grassy Knoll
Sunny Uplands
The field
The garden
Dungeness