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My Garden World: the Sunday Times bestseller

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A journey through the natural year , month by month, season by season, observed from the immediate world around him. This book is an amazing naturalists account of all the many birds, plants, and mammals that are to be found at different times of the year and in all the many places, in and around farms, gardens, woodlands and environments both familiar, and unfamiliar. Monty Don observes with detail the animals, birds and wildlife that come and go throughout the year, encouraging us to help and preserve the world around us. I also found his way of talking about hunting/killing a bit brutal, but then he is a farmer - and living in Devon, I know that death is a part of farming and most farmers talk about it as they would any other part of life.

This is not sentimental but rooted in the lived experience of the last thirty years or so based in Herefordshire. Best Christmas Releases* -- While some gardeners appear bent on suppressing nature, Monty Don loves and works with it. Yet no other creature owns the sky more than the swift and they used to grace us with their supersonic, sleek version of the still ubiquitous swallows and martins. If I’m honest, I’m not sure I’d have chosen this book for myself, but I was given it so felt obliged to read it.

Many of you, like me, will know Monty Don through his TV documentaries and Gardener's World - and viewers came to love his gentle golden retriever, Nigel who died the day after Monty finished writing this book.

We may be totally unaware of what is going on if we do not connect with nature using our own powers of observation. This was slightly different to his usual flower/plant based books, about his gardening endeavours at Longmeadow. I really enjoyed this book as it was a revelation into the personality of Monty as well as a wonderful account of the nature he encounters throughout the year in his garden.this is a very timely and relevant celebration of the world immediately around us - at a time when we really need it. Divided into sections, each one headed by the main subject of the piece, I really like the style of writing that is often nostalgic. If, in our own modest back yards, we can help preserve and treasure our natural world then we will make the world a better place — not just for ourselves but for every living creature. I will keep this book and revisit it over time, I feel I learnt so much from it and hopefully will be able to filter it along to others. Dedicated to ‘Nigel, 2008-2020’, it pensively follows with the opening lines of ‘Afterwards’, by Thomas Hardy.

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