Monty Don's British Gardens (2025) Seen on March 2026, 5 episodes (1 hr. each) Programme: Monty Don’s British Gardens Broadcaster: BBC Format: 5-part documentary series Year: 2025 Date watched: March 2026 Status: Completed Overall reaction This series turned out to be much more than a tour of beautiful gardens. For me, it became a way of clarifying what I actually value in gardens: collaboration, love of plants for their own sake, layered planting, eccentricity, personal expression, and the idea that a garden can be both designed and emotionally alive. Across the five episodes, I moved away from admiring formal design for its own sake and toward wanting a garden with formal structure but naturalistic, looser, more rewilded feeling. The series itself ran in five episodes from Scotland/Northumberland to the South West, with Monty visiting around 60 gardens across Britain.  Episode 1 — Scotland to Northumberland What stayed with me most in the first episode was the idea of gar...
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