We're back at Longmeadow tonight with Monty and Ned for another hour of spring delights. Join us at 8pm on BBC Two if you can or afterwards on BBC iPlayer 😎🌷🐾 #GardenersWorld #Gardening #FlowersOnFriday #Spring

In the Cottage garden

This is both heartbreaking & maddening.
The creative industries account for more than £100bn to UK economy, 15.9% of all UK service exports.; there is more production space here than anywhere in world outside of Hollywood. RT if agree!
#supportthearts theguardian.com/education/2024…

Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy. That’s more than car and oil industries together. They employ 2.3million people. To cut funding for creative arts at university level is fudge-brained, cack-hearted thinking pitched very much at the highest level of economic…

There seemed to be lot of stone when planting- explored further - discovered concrete foundations fit for skyscraper. Gentle gardening has become major excavation.

The River Wye is facing collapse – due in part to intensive chicken farming. And other UK rivers are at risk from this expanding industry🐔

We urgently need government action to save the Wye and all our rivers

Sign our petition✍️soilassociation.co/rivers_tw

theguardian.com/environment/20…

If you're new to gardening, it can seem daunting - with Latin names, various soil types and seasonal requirements, it's a lot to learn! Take the confusion out of garden with the guidance of Monty Don's #TheGardeningBook 👉 bit.ly/3QVU8II

Happy New Month! April is one of the most beautiful, exciting and busy months for gardeners and for tips, advice and inspiration visit my freshly updated website montydon.com

This is one of the very best essays on the sorry state of Britain after 14 years of Conservative government. Among many insights, the most revealing is Osborne’s gleeful declaration that austerity worked brilliantly in political terms - ignoring the damage to public services

If you're not sure what you should be getting on with in the garden this weekend, here's Monty Don with a few ideas. Happy Easter 🙂 🐰 🐣 #GardenersWorld #Gardening

Introducing the 'Gardening with Monty Don' BingePass on hoopla Digital! Dive into a world of gardening wisdom, tips, and inspiration with Monty Don at hoopladigital.com/title/16721798. 🌱

Monty Don's Spanish Gardens arrives on DVD & Download from 22nd April!

Pre-order: tinyurl.com/spanishgardens…

In this fantastic new series, Monty Don takes viewers on a stunning journey across Spain, covering more than 4,000 kilometres!

See you later 🙂 🌷 🌿 #GardenersWorld #FridayFeeling #Gardening #SpringIsHere

Friday 8pm on BBC Two. Is it a date? 🤩 #GardenersWorld #Gardening #FlowersOnFriday #Spring

Ned

Thanks for all the kind comments about Spanish Gardens - it was fun and fascinating but of course I was just one part of a brilliant team. The same team will bring you a 5 x 1 hr series on British gardens next year.

Gardens come in all shapes and sizes... Join me tonight in the North of Spain for the final programme of 'Spanish Gardens' BBC2 8 pm

Ned loves bale- hopping!

As part of my journey in Northern Spain on tomorrow's third and final programme in the series, I visit Pazo de Rivadulla in Galicia, which, as well as a superb garden and Spain's biggest Camellia nursery, has the most beautiful approach you can conceive . #montydon

First day back filming for Gardeners World ( next Friday, 8 pm BBC 2)