Monty Don Gardening At Longmeadow

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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...

1 The Cottage Garden

Monty Don's cottage garden was first used as a vegetable patch, but, over the years, the gardener has transformed it into a traditional space filled with soft colours, fruit trees and over 50 kinds of old-fashioned shrub roses.

2 The Long Walk

Imagine walking along this path and just embracing nature and the great outdoors? It's defined by perfectly maintained hedges and bordered by tulips.

4 Grow Your Own

When it comes to growing produce, Monty said on his blog that his and Sarah's goal 'is to always have a supply of a good choice of vegetables that we enjoy eating on every single day of the year'.

5 Chicken house

The chicken house is situated in the orchard with chestnut paling fencing.

6 The greenhouse

Monty's impressive glass greenhouse is packed with containers for optimum growing. The presenter often gives a glimpse into what's growing next.

7 Jewel Garden

The jewel garden is rich in colour and texture. It was inspired by Monty's jewellery business in the 1980s, so is packed with extravagance and character. Some of the plants growing here include dahlias, gingers, bananas, tulips, cannas, tithonias, zinnias and sunflowers, too. We can only imagine how vibrant it must look in the height of summer.

8 Jewel Garden

Here's another view of the glorious Jewel Garden, which Monty says really hits its stride in August and September.

9 Wildlife-Friendly Flowers

Monty's garden is a haven for wildlife, thanks to nectar-rich colourful flowers. There are Erythronium californium flowers, tulips, snakeshead fritillaries, muscari perennials and Erythronium 'Pagoda', too.

10 Paradise Garden

Monty's paradise garden is as lovely as it sounds. This space has a water feature, a simple pavilion, pomegranate and olive and citrus trees. Roses and lilies add beautiful fragrance to the garden, while bright petals add punches of colour.

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11 Herb Garden

Another scene-stealing feature is the impressive maze-like herb garden, which features a lovely bistro dining set in the centre. We couldn't imagine sitting anywhere better to soak up the afternoon sun.

12 Top Bar Beehive

Monty installed a colony of bees in a top bar hive in his garden in 2016.

13 Wildlife Pond

The pond is a great habitat for wildlife to thrive and a place to embrace the simple sounds of nature.

14 Orchard

You'll also discover apple trees growing in the orchard. In this post, Monty shares with his followers the evolution of the orchard across the years.

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