Monty Don
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- | Monty (short for Montagu)'s first career was as a jeweller, but when his business went under he decided to make his hobby - gardening - into a career, and after writing his first book he was asked to become the resident gardening expert on ''This Morning''. From there, he rose to become presenter of various gardening and horticulture-related programmes including '' | + | Monty (short for Montagu)'s first career was as a jeweller, but when his business went under he decided to make his hobby - gardening - into a career, and after writing his first book he was asked to become the resident gardening expert on ''This Morning''. From there, he rose to become presenter of various gardening and horticulture-related programmes including ''Gardeners' World'', which he's had two spells presenting, either side of a couple of years off while he recovered from a stroke in 2008. He is also president of the Soil Association. |
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Current revision as of 18:03, 9 November 2013
Biography
Monty (short for Montagu)'s first career was as a jeweller, but when his business went under he decided to make his hobby - gardening - into a career, and after writing his first book he was asked to become the resident gardening expert on This Morning. From there, he rose to become presenter of various gardening and horticulture-related programmes including Gardeners' World, which he's had two spells presenting, either side of a couple of years off while he recovered from a stroke in 2008. He is also president of the Soil Association.