Accompanies a 10-part BBC2 television series for January 2008. The gardens chosen will include recognisable gardens of supreme beauty and interest as well as Monty's personal eclectic choice. The journey is as important as Monty's knowledgeable observations on the gardens - his diary will record the ups and downs, expectations and realities and the people he meets on his travels. Part Palin, part Cruickshank, part Gardener's World, this programme will be the first of its kind and will feature an extraordinary range of places, people and plants.
Monty Don is the main presenter of BBC-TV's Gardener's World and one of the UK's most respected gardeners and gardening writers. He has been gardening correspondent for the Observer since 1994 and is at the forefront of the environmental and organic gardening debate.