The hedges start to prickle with new green leaves and the orchard trees billow with blossom. So we choose vegetables and varieties that we like and which like to grow in our garden.Spring comes slowly to the garden. When we bought this house in October 1991, 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. M onty Don's Herefordshire garden, Longmeadow, is well known to garden enthusiasts around the UK as the setting of BBC's Gardener's World, and its yearly cycles are well-documented on the broadcaster's social media feeds.He and his wife, Sarah, have been working on the garden for nearly thirty years, having bought the house in 1991 when there was little in the garden but rubble. It is based upon four symmetrical beds arranged in the square charbagh pattern centred upon a water feature that bubbles gently in the centre. But when it is wet for weeks and we do not see the sun at all for days on end then it is miserable and gardening dribbles to a soggy halt. The planting is modern and based upon a matrix of the soft grass stipa tenuissima with the tulip acuminata, with its long ottoman-like petals in spring and tulbaghia and verbena bonariensis flowering in summer. Planting both acknowledges the koranic dictates of fruit with pomegranate, olive and citrus trees but also very British crab apples. In summer it is dominated by over 50 different kinds of old-fashioned shrub roses. The weather can still be very wintry but the garden is committed to Spring. "Don had never received formal training as a gardener. The young hedging plants were then planted in the lee of the fences and grew much faster as a result.The planting began in earnest in Spring ’93 and has never really ceased since. He commented, "I was – am – an amateur gardener and a professional writer. Montagu Denis Wyatt "Monty" Don OBE is a British television presenter, writer and speaker on horticulture, best known for presenting the BBC television series Gardeners' World. 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. Every one is gathered and stored to make leaf-mould which rots down to become an essential component of our home-made potting compost and a perfect mulch for woodland plants.We always hope for a cold, dry winter although with climate change a very wet, rather mild one is becoming all too common. But he dismissed any suggestion of replacement joints, saying: "Listen, when you get to 60, you ache. 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. The Jewel Garden is the physical and spiritual centre of the entire garden. What began as an act of homage, almost an academic exercise, has become an important and much loved part of the garden.I have grown vegetables since I was a small child and growing our own vegetables, herbs and fruit has always been an essential ingredient in the lives of Sarah and I. A simple pavilion is at the far end that is shaded from the sun but looks out over the whole garden and down through the Orchard beds. In winter the structure is marked out by box hedging and 8 large Irish Yews – that all fitted in the boot of car when we first planted them in 1994! All the time I was planning, dreaming and drawing.I learned that the wind howled in from three sides, so when I began to lay out the garden in the autumn of 1992 I knew the first thing I needed were windbreaks. Roses and Lilies add the essential element of fragrance. We do our best to ready the garden for winter by the end of November, protecting tender plants and clearing the decks and then hunker down in December and January before work begins again in earnest in February and the gardening year swings around again.

The result was a two part series ‘Paradise Gardens for the BBC and a book, with Derry Moore, with the same title.A greenhouse had fallen down after 20 odd years in one part of the garden so when we cleared it away and found we had a new and empty part of the garden I decided to make my own Paradise Garden based upon the influences I had seen across the Islamic world.

That was it. I also bought 2,000 bean sticks and wove these between the stakes to make solid fences. The Spring garden was made to relish every possibility of the season and wave after wave of flower push forward culminating in mid May with the earliest species roses and the cow parsley which then takes over completely.The various areas of long grass and wild flowers are rich with crocuses that are soon followed by narcissi, fritillaries and camassias. Everything revolves around it. We do so as much as cooks and lovers of good food as gardeners, always striving for good taste and health over appearance or size. The first starts at the end of May and continues to mid July and then there is a noticeable shift as the light changes slightly and the whole garden heats up until September.Throughout June the days are at their longest, the light at its brightest and all the deciduous foliage, be it of an aquilegia or oak tree, is full but still fresh.

Across two sites separated by a hedged path we have a mixture of raised beds, larger beds and some surrounded by low woven fences that are halfway between the two.

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