My Garden World: the Sunday Times bestseller

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I’ve never read a book by Monty Don, but I do so love his gentle manner on television, and that coupled with my love of gardening for nature drew me to this book.

The book is presented almost as a yearly diary annotating the events and interactions with wildlife - both flaura and fauna. This is not so much Monty the gardener and celebrity but more the naturalist and country man, in the manner of a latter day Jack Hargreaves.

I particularly enjoyed his heartfelt tribute to his beloved Nigel,So very moving and the book contains some lovely photos too. This book is personal, selective, and based on my own particular interests rather than trying to be a reference book of any kind. I love this book, it takes you on an amazing journey through the natural year learning about all the creatures and plants that inhabit a garden and farmland through the course of one year. My only criticism is I wish it had been purposefully written in a he notices the little things that so many of us 'gardeners' and outdoor people notice and gives lots of interesting extra facts.

My Garden World is Monty Don taking us through the year in his garden and farm, made up of tasty vignettes and morsels. From a very early age I loved the countryside as much as any garden and was fascinated by the life that I saw all around me from trees, wildflowers, birds, insects and mammals. I found the book incredibly informative and I applied several of Monty’s suggestions in my garden throughout the seasons.

If in our own modest back yards we can help preserve and treasure our natural world then we will make the world a better place - not just for ourselves but for every living creature". I bought it with the hope that it would be about Monty Don's garden and about gardening and plants but it is actually more about animals and wildlife which was ok, but not what I had hoped to read about. I really enjoyed this book as it was a revelation into the personality of Monty as well as a wonderful account of the nature he encounters throughout the year in his garden. Monty has sectioned the book into the four seasons with a month by month observations of what he may or may not have been seen in the garden and up at the farm. We may be totally unaware of what is going on if we do not connect with nature using our own powers of observation.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. For anyone who watches Gardeners World and is familiar with Monty Dons famous dog, Nigel, there is a beautiful piece at the end of the book detailing the death of this gorgeous dog…. I regard this book as a treasure trove of all the many wonders of the natural world that surround us.Monty has a lovely writing style that makes this book very enjoyable as well as a great learning tool for gardeners. Best Christmas Releases* -- While some gardeners appear bent on suppressing nature, Monty Don loves and works with it. Yet no other creature owns the sky more than the swift and they used to grace us with their supersonic, sleek version of the still ubiquitous swallows and martins. His new book is a celebration of the living world, through which he walks us, following the calendar year, pausing to observe everything from hares to hawthorn. If, in our own modest back yards, we can help preserve and treasure our natural world, then we will make this planet a better place ~ not just for ourselves but for every living creature.

Having only started watching Gardener's World in the last year or so, and succumbing to the calm, soothing tone of Monty Don's voice and demeanour at a time when the world seems even more chaotic than normal, I had to see if it translated to the written word. I learned a lot from the book, including some of the complex aspects of wildlife conservation that mean things are not as black and white as they might first appear.I also found his way of talking about hunting/killing a bit brutal, but then he is a farmer - and living in Devon, I know that death is a part of farming and most farmers talk about it as they would any other part of life. I found out so much about him and the knowledge he has about not only about gardening but the creatures and birds that visit was amazing. However getting back to this tome, it is both entertaining and funny in places and very informative, so if you want to know your woodcock from your pheasant or your willow from your crack willow, then I highly recommend it. We learn Monty is partial to a whiskey in the garden on a summer’s evening, smokes a pipe when attacked by midges and loves spotting birds of prey swooping for a kill.