What Does Monty Don's Garden Look Like

BBC Two's Gardeners' World welcomes a special guest this week, as Monty Don shows Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, round Longmeadow.

Friday's episode (20th August) will see Camilla exploring the Jewel Garden at Longmeadow; Monty's beautiful garden at his Herefordshire home.

Monty speaks to Camilla about her long-standing love of gardening and the importance of attracting wildlife, which is something she's keen to develop in her own garden.

'I've got a little bit of a woodland garden that I've started and I would love to build that up more, I would love to put down swathes of bulbs, and I would also like to have a proper wildflower meadow,' Camilla tells Monty. 'At the moment I've got a bit, but the grass has taken over and we're going to have another go this year of planting more seeds, because I think, especially now, it's ever more important to have these wild flowers – if we're going to keep on attracting butterflies and bees – I think that's very important.'

And when it comes to a garden's less welcome visitors, Camilla is just as susceptible to the same challenges that affect everyone.

monty don welcomes the camilla, hrh duchess of cornwall, to longmeadow, where she shares her love of gardening

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'I'm very lucky I've got a big vegetable garden, but you get the mice; the voles this year all ate the asparagus roots and got into the strawberries, so you can never win, there's always something.'

As a result of the pandemic, there has been an increased interest in gardening, with the pastime helping to ease anxiety and provide some respite in challenging times.

A previous study conducted by the RHS found that 6 in 10 people (57 per cent) value their gardens more than they did before lockdown, with 71 per cent saying their outdoor space has helped their physical and mental health.

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'I think gardens got people through Covid, they realised how special a garden was and what they could do with it, they could become inventive. Even if they hadn't before, they could start growing vegetables,' said Camilla, on how important gardens and gardening can be for our wellbeing, especially over the course of the past 18 months.

'It was a sort of spiritual experience for them, they discovered a sort of affinity with the soil – you can go into a garden and you can completely lose yourself, you don't have to think about anything else, you're surrounded by nature, you've got birds singing, you've got bees buzzing about – there is something very healing about gardens.'

Watch Gardeners' World on Friday 20th August at 8pm on BBC Two.

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