Southern Exchange

I don’t think I’ve seen more beautiful trees than these anywhere in the world,” said the British gardening superstar Monty Don, with perfect English earnestness, to the camera as he stepped among the primeval live oaks at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens in Charleston, South Carolina, for his 2020 miniseries Monty Don’s American Gardens.

For Anglophiles, Montagu Denis Wyatt “Monty” Don carries as much cachet as or , and get him talking about the who is perhaps best known to American audiences for his streaming series . “Its magic is something you find rather than something you know to look for.”