My Garden World: the Sunday Times bestseller

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This book is personal, selective, and based on my own particular interests rather than trying to be a reference book of any kind. From a very early age I loved the countryside as much as any garden and was fascinated by the life that I saw all around me from trees, wildflowers, birds, insects and mammals. this is a very timely and relevant celebration of the world immediately around us - at a time when we really need it.

His lifelong enthusiasm and fascination with nature (the cute bits and the harsh bits) shines through. Dedicated to ‘Nigel, 2008-2020’, it pensively follows with the opening lines of ‘Afterwards’, by Thomas Hardy. The book is presented almost as a yearly diary annotating the events and interactions with wildlife - both flaura and fauna. I bought it with the hope that it would be about Monty Don's garden and about gardening and plants but it is actually more about animals and wildlife which was ok, but not what I had hoped to read about.If, in our own modest back yards, we can help preserve and treasure our natural world, then we will make this planet a better place ~ not just for ourselves but for every living creature. My Garden World is Monty Don taking us through the year in his garden and farm, made up of tasty vignettes and morsels. From the dust-jacket front flap:🍃 ‘From a very early age I loved the countryside as much as any garden and was fascinated by the life that I saw all around me from trees, wildflowers, birds, insects and mammals.

I paid much more attention to their behaviour this year as I learnt what to expect on a monthly basis.I'm not comfortable with his ambivalence about huntin' and shootin', but then I don't own a large estate in Shropshire and a farm on the Welsh hills.