Take a tour of Monty Don's breathtaking Herefordshire garden
Monty Don's beautiful garden at his Herefordshire home — which was previously voted one of the UK's most popular gardens on Instagram — is a glorious space.
Known as Longmeadow garden, there's plenty to admire, including an abundance of beautiful plants providing year-round colour, symmetrical beds centred upon a water feature, an orchard providing over 50 different varieties of apples, and topiary of his golden retriever Nigel.
Loyal BBC Gardeners' World viewers will be very familiar with Monty's garden too. As lead presenter of the gardening show, Monty has been presenting from his own garden since 2011.
But it didn't always look like this. Back in October 1991, Monty and his wife Sarah purchased the countryside property with high hopes to restore the garden. '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,' Monty describes on his blog, adding that there was just one tree.
With a lot of planning, TLC and hard work, Monty transformed Longmeadow garden into a peaceful haven filled with his favourite plants and flowers. The main areas are: The Cottage Garden, The Paradise Garden, The Vegetable Garden and The Jewel Garden, the latter of which Monty says is 'the physical and spiritual centre of the entire garden'. Think of them as huge garden rooms; they all feel like separate spaces but together they perfectly complement one another.
Take a tour of Monty's garden below...
It's glorious
