Gardeners' World: Can I visit Monty Don's Longmeadow garden?

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Don's garden Longmeadow always looks its best on the popular BBC show, but it leaves fans asking if they can visit.

The short answer is no, Longmeadow is not open to the public – but Don spoke of another way to visit the garden, which is near Leominster.

Posting a message on Twitter, Don said: "Can I make clear that Longmeadow is not open to the public.

"Not on Fridays or any other day. You can 'visit' via Gardeners' World only."

Monty Don says Longmeadow is a private garden and not open to the public. Picture: Richard Hanmer/BBC

He added that as Longmeadow is a private garden, bought by Don and his wife Sarah in 1991, it cannot be visited by anyone at any time.

When one fan of the show said it was on her wish list to visit, Don replied saying that it was not possible and the public could only see Longmeadow on screen.

Another asked for a plan of the garden, which Don said had been printed in the Gardeners' World magazine "on a number of occasions".

Don, who has spent most of his time during the coronavirus pandemic at Longmeadow as he rarely ventures out, also called on gardeners, especially men, to ease off the “obsession” with a tidy lawn.

He said keeping the grass in order tends to be a male trait, which is about “control”.

Monty Don thinks men need to ease off the obsession with a tidy lawn. Picture: BBC

But the 65-year-old told Radio Times magazine that having a neat and tidy, striped lawn, free of flowers, damages wildlife and the environment.

“Cutting grass burns lots of fossil fuel, makes a filthy noise and is about the most injurious thing you can do to wildlife,” Don said.

“Whereas letting grass grow, which is, after all, a pretty passive thing to do, is probably the single most effective thing you can do in any garden of any size to encourage particularly insect life, but also small mammals, invertebrates, reptiles.”

The presenter said he is not anti-lawn, telling the magazine: “I like walking on a lawn with bare feet as much as the next person.”

But, he added: “The obsession, which tends to be male, which is controlling rather than embracing, with making a lawn that is pure grass without any filthy and foreign invading plants in there, making sure it’s stripy and neat, and – phew! – just one aspect of life that’s under control.

“That just doesn’t cut the mustard. It’s just not good enough. We’ve all got to get beyond that.”