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MY ENGLISH HOME Monty Don

Well-known gardener, television presenter and writer Monty Don OBE has been lead presenter of the BBC’s Gardeners’ World since 2003 and since 2011 the programme has been broadcast from his garden, Longmeadow, in Herefordshire. Whilst work takes him all over the world in search of the finest gardens, about which he makes television programmes and writes books, being at home with his wife Sarah, their three grown-up children – Adam, Freya and Tom – and two golden retrievers, Nigel and Nellie, is where he is happiest.

Where do you live and why?

I live near a little town called Leominster in Herefordshire, near the Welsh border. We moved here 30 years ago

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