Monty Don

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Career

Don and Erskine founded Monty Don Jewellery, a London-based company that created, manufactured, and sold costume jewelry. The corporation was a success, and over the five years, it operated from a store in Knightsbridge employing hundreds of outworkers and having grown to 60 outlets around the United Kingdom, including Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Liberty. Boy George, Michael Jackson, and Princess Diana were among their clients. However, the 1987 stock market crash resulted in a near-total bankruptcy, as it cut off American sales, the country's largest market. Don was inspired by the situation to begin a career in writing and broadcasting. "We were lambs to the slaughter and we lost everything," he said, "We lost our house, our company." At Leominster's market, we sold every stick of furniture we encountered. He was unemployed from 1991 to 1993, and he spent all of 1992 on the dole. Some of the jewellery on display at the V&A Museum is on display.

Don had written several gardening books and even provided writers access to his back garden, which had been featured in various journals by mid-1989. Due to this increased exposure, Don wrote a gardening column for the Mail on Sunday, a book contract, and an invitation to a screen test for a new weekly live gardening segment on ITV's This Morning. Don landed the show and his first segment aired in October 1989, earning £100 a show. Don landed additional television work as a host on the BBC Television shows Holiday and Tomorrow's World after 26 spots on This Morning. Although he had reservations about being a host, he took the jobs as he was hungry for work. Don and his wife appeared segments on growing and preparing organic vegetables in November 1999. Don Roaming's three other series were broadcast between 1999 and 2003: Real Gardens, Lost Gardens, and Don Roaming.

Don has been the new lead presenter of its long-running series Gardeners' World from 2003, succeeding Alan Titchmarsh. Don is the first self-taught horticulturist host in the show's history. Don hosted the show until he had to recover from his minor injury in 2008, and the program continued with Toby Buckland as host. During Don's first stint, viewing figures fell from 5 million to 2 million, with the BBC's decision to change the show's format shortly after Don's arrival. Following viewer numbers that dropped below two million in 2009 for the first time in 2009, the BBC revealed further updates to the show in order to entice viewers back. Don announced his return as host for the 2011 series in December 2010. On the program's blog, reactions to the news were split.

Don started filming episodes of Gardeners' World in Berryfields, a rented garden in Stratford-upon-Avon. Don began to host Longmeadow in Ivington, Herefordshire, in 2011. Until the dog's death in May 2020, just before its 12th birthday, he was often seen on film with his Golden Retriever Nigel. Don introduced viewers to Nell, his latest golden retriever. In April 2020, Patti, a Yorkshire Terrier, was introduced to the family. Don signed a three-year deal with the BBC in 2020 to continue presenting Gardeners' World.

Don is also known for writing and presenting his own book. He established a 6-acre (2.4 ha) smallholding in Herefordshire in 2005 to house a group of young drug offenders. The initiative was chronicled for the BBC series Growing Out of Suffernce, which first aired in 2006. This was followed by the 2005 BBC series Around the World in 80 Gardens, where Don visited 80 gardens in a variety of styles around the world. Don established My Dream Farm, a Channel 4 series that taught people how to be successful smallholders, and Mastercrafts, a BBC series that celebrated six traditional British crafts. Monty Don's Italian Gardens aired on the BBC in 2011, which was followed by Monty Don's French Gardens in 2013. Don performed an episode of Great British Garden Revival later this year. Don became the lead presenter for the BBC's flagship Chelsea Flower Show coverage in 2014, replacing Titchmarsh.

Don hosted the four-part BBC series The Secret History of the British Garden, charting the growth of British gardens from the 17th to the twentieth century. Don has authored three series of Big Dreams, Small Spaces, where he assists amateur gardeners in designing their own "dream spaces" on a domestic basis. Don's next series was Monty Don's Paradise Gardens in 2018, who travelled around the Islamic world and abroad in search of paradise gardens and contemplating their place in the Quran. Monty Don's Japanese Gardens in 2020 were followed by Monty Don's Japanese Gardens, Monty Don's American Gardens in 2020, and Monty Don's Adriatic Gardens in 2022.

"Who happens to have a lot of television work," Don has referred to himself as a writer. Don had written two unpublished books, The Clematis Affair and An Afternoon in Padua by the early 1990s. Later, he referred to them as "excruciatingly bad." Allen Jenkins, then editor of The Observer, invited Don to write a weekly gardening column for the newspaper in January 1994. Jenkins began in February and ran until May 2006; he was his editor for seven years. Don wrote a piece from 2004 to celebrate the column's tenth year "It has been more life-changing than any other work I've done in my adult life." Since 2004, Don has written articles for the Daily Mail and Mail Online.

Routledge published The Jewel Garden: A tale of Despair and Redemption, a joint autobiography and the tale of their home and gardens at Longmeadow, by Don and his wife Sarah in 2005.

In 2016, Hodder Books published Don's Nigel: My Family and Other Dogs, a book about the author.

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