I have had issues with " volume " my entire life but never equated it to being connected to my depression... this has been a weight lifted from me. It's also a story of the depression that has dogged Monty Don throughout his life, and about which he is pretty open. Naturally this depression found what I hope was its low point during the early years of their new home, when they had practically no money and small children to look after, and the garden at Longmeadow served as a lifeline, a creative outlet, and, eventually, the inspiration for a new career in garden writing and TV presenting. I’m so grateful this crossed my path. This album is so beautiful. All the clear technique and mastery and vision are kinda secondary to the fact that this album brought me calm and joy during one of the most difficult times in my life. Yeah, grateful. David McCullough go to album

The Jewel Garden - AbeBooks The Jewel Garden - AbeBooks

This is not a book about French Gardens. It is the story of a man travelling round France visiting a few selected French gardens on the way. Sarah walked over to the Aga and poured her self another cup of tea into her Wedgwood Jasper Conrad Chinoiseries teacup. A single tear rolled down her cheek and landed, sizzling, on the Aga’s surface. So I’ve got some plants here, deliberately to plant along the edge of the paths so that they can spill over and just soften the whole effect.” I do really love this book. I've been watching "Gardener's World" on the BBC for several years now, and it main allure, aside from learning a great deal about gardening, is, of course, its main figure and chief gardener, Monty Don. I tell my friends he makes me think of Lady Chatterly's Lover. He looks just enough rough on the edges to make him interesting, but he can touch a flower like it were a lady's cheek, and when he speaks, ah when he speaks, and says something like, "and look at the lovely lush, blushing pink of this dahlia.." you (ladies) are nearly thrown into a swoon. So I was a little jealous of Sarah, who never appears on screen, and to be honest, I bought this book to find out more about this wonderful man. But surprise surprise, Sarah holds her own very well, so well in fact that in the end, I have to admit that she is (to me) just as appealing as he, and it is no wonder that they found each other. Monty was honoured to be invited to write the Introduction for this short but inspiring collection of poems.Read them with soil under your nails and to cultivate all that grows within.

The interplay between what he writes and then what she writes adds depth to the story of their garden. For they are a team effort. They began designing jewelry together, and their company became wildly successful, only to have the company fall upon its own bejewelled sword when the economy went bust. That part of their life is reflected in the section of their property they now call The Jewel Garden.

The Jewel Garden By Monty Don | Used | 9780340826720 - Wob

Overwhelmingly honest, passionate, inspiring, with prose to die for... a meditation on family and love ( Independent on Sunday) Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth

The jewel city gardens, palaces, planning and achievement its architecture, sculpture, symbolism and music 1915 [Hardcover] is the story of a creative partnership that has weathered the greatest storm, and a testament to the healing powers of the soil. Sarah pulled on her Wellington’s and strode out the front door. She saw her husband lovingly teaching Adam the ancient art of topiary, a skill that would be vital when he started at Eton next year. Monty Don is perfectly content whenever he is working in his home garden. It is when he is away from it too long or the winter months make it impossible for him to putter as he likes among the flowers, the vegetables, and the trees that his crippling depression, always lurking like a beast in the shadows, seizes the opportunity to storm the cells deep in the dungeons of his mind and release the creatures of self-doubt, dissatisfaction, recrimination, and lassitude and allow them to run freely through his mind, overturning pots, tearing up rose bushes, and smashing down fences.