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    Oct 22, 2020 4 minutes

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    Monty Don’s not-so-secret garden

    The presenter and writer shares his observations and celebrates wildlife.

    MY GARDEN WORLD

    BY MONTY DON, TWO ROADS, £20

    The much-loved gardening personality and columnist for BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Monty Don has written “millions of words about gardens”. This is a gaze cast wider on the wildlife that, for Monty – a committed organic gardener – has always been there.

    My Garden World does not attempt to be a reference book, nor is it nature writing as such, rather it is a seasonal scrapbook of notes and personal reflection on a lifetime spent noticing nature. It mingles facts with often lyrical observations from his life, Herefordshire garden and Welsh farm, in a conversational and warm voice.

    Through the year, we get

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