Monty Don Quotes

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Monty Don

Profession : Celebrity

Birth : July 8, 1955

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.

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Some plants become weeds simply by virtue of their success rather than any other factor. You merely want less of them.

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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.

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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.

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When you plant something, you invest in a beautiful future amidst a stressful, chaotic and, at times, downright appalling world.

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What I love about French gardens is the combination of formal elegance and intellectual questioning.

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Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well.

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Woods are rich with biodiversity and, above all, places of trees and light that spangles a thousand greens through the leaves.

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I just think that gardening is about the future, a slow thing, that is deep and spiritual as well as spiritually rewarding.

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The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions.

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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.

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No apple is reliably self-fertile, so each tree needs a pollinator. A neighbour may well have an apple that will do that for you, but it is better to always plant at least two trees to be certain of pollination.

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I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.

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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.

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If I'm honest, the thing I am proudest of is my varieties of wild flowers in the hay meadow.

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I was brought up a strict Christian. My father was a lay preacher, my mother a church warden. The rhythm and ritual of the Anglican Church was part of our lives.

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Ground elder, introduced by the Romans as a vegetable, is difficult to get rid of because it regrows from the smallest trace of root.

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By having a direct stake and involvement with the process of plants growing, of having your hands in the soil and tending it carefully and with love, your world and everyone's else's world too, becomes a better place.

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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.

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Earth heals me better than any medicine.

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