Gardening at Longmeadow

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The Cottage garden spent the first 20 years of its existence as a dedicated vegetable garden, conveniently near the kitchen and supplying the family with all our fresh produce. Following the cycle of the seasons, Gardening at Longmeadow will introduce readers to the garden from the earliest snowdrops of January through the first splashes of colour in the Spring Garden, the electric summer displays of the Jewel Garden, the autumn harvest in the orchard, and on to a Christmas feast sourced from the vegetable gardens. The various areas of long grass and wild flowers are rich with crocuses that are soon followed by narcissi, fritillaries and camassias.

Pauline has taken the words right out of my mouth 🙂 I will have to have a sneaky peek somewhere on my travels. This book is a collection of 50 of Monty’s articles, written as part of a regular column for The Observer. 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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All of our books are 100% brand new, unread and purchased directly from the publishers in bulk allowing us to pass the huge savings on to you! Monty Don invites you into Longmeadow, a place that has become synonymous with Gardener's World, to show how he creates and tends his own garden, and how you can bring some of that same magic to our own. He has written a weekly gardening column for the Daily Mail since 2004, and published over 20 books, including the bestsellers Down to Earth , Nigel: My Family and Other Dogs , and My Garden World .My Garden World is Monty Don’s personal journey through the natural year, month by month, season by season, observed from the immediate world around him. The Jewel garden really hits its stride in August and September despite the shortening days because the nights are warm and dahlias, bananas, zinnias, tithonia, sunflowers, helianthus, nicotiana and cosmos are flowering exuberantly. 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. I’ve not so far had the opportunity to go through the book, but from the quick look through it, I’m sure I’m going to enjoy it and learn lots. This beautiful, full colour book guides us through the history and beauty of Japanese gardens, from the famous cherry blossom to the magnificence of autumn colours.