Monty Don Quotes

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Monty Don

Profession : Celebrity

Birth : July 8, 1955

Apples hate strong wind and damp, cold soil so try and place them on well-drained, rich soil in a sheltered position.

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I like dogs because they are not humans.

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I love filming. I love the teamwork. It's a tight-knit group spending months on the road together. All the experience is shared.

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Tony Blair is a dreadful man; really truly dreadful.

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Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.

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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.

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I'm a great believer in trying things, so I've eaten witchetty grubs, a mountain frog, ostrich and alligator. I like tongue, I like brains and tripe.

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I love high summer as well, but nothing beats a perfect May morning.

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You can trace the entire history of Britain by looking at gardens.

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Visiting gardens is bad for you. Not only does it encourage too much eating of cake but sets up all kinds of false notions that are ruinous to your garden back home.

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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.

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In my teens I wanted to be a rock star, I really did. At that time there was nothing I wanted more.

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I live in the middle of country so I walk a lot.

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My basic philosophy is never do anything with the word 'celebrity' attached to it. Without being overly pompous, if you have worked hard to have an audience trust you a bit, why blow it? That is my currency.

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The farm uses up a lot of my creative urges. It's a sort of rough and ready space, I don't film there.

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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.

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The British have such an odd relationship with food - and the land. I want the public and the Soil Association to see that growing things in a garden is no different to growing things in a field.

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I see myself as a writer who happens to garden.

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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.

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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.

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