108 Quotes by Monty Don

[My list] of unwritten books grows longer every year--which may be a blessed relief to the book-buying public but is a source of real dissatisfaction to me.

By starting from the ground and tapping into the absolute, uncheatable truth of nature we can make ourselves better.

A garden is not a place. It’s a journey.

In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment.

So how would I do it again if I were to cater for the children in the garden rather than merely tolerate them? I would make places.

Inevitably the real garden with a growing family of children will be untidy, messy even, noisy and often destructive. It drives arch control freaks like myself mad. But I hate it when they are not there.2.

You need to see bare branches to know the full astonishing shock of the new leaves come next April. You need the flat, brown emptiness of the mixed borders to measure their summer fullness.

However naturalistic and ‘wild’ it appears, a garden is always an artificial environment made by people for people, so it makes sense to put the considerations of people – rather than plants – first.

You do not need to know anything about a plant to know that it is beautiful.