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  • Down to Earth

  • Gardening Wisdom
  • By: Monty Don
  • Narrated by: Monty Don
  • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (57 ratings)

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Down to Earth

By: Monty Don
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Publisher's summary

Unrivalled gardening wisdom from Monty Don, including essential tips, knowledge, and musings from his 50 years of gardening experience.

This is Monty Don right beside you in the garden, challenging norms and sharing advice.

Discover Monty's thoughts and garden ideas around nature, seasons, color, design, pests, flowering shrubs, containers, and much more. Hear about the month-by-month jobs he does in his own garden that he hopes are relevant to you.

Monty's warm voice brings this most intimate book to life - an enriching listen for any gardener.

"I have written many gardening books, but this is the distillation of 50 years of gardening experience. It has all the tips and essential pieces of knowledge that enable you to make your garden grow well, and it also shares my view that gardening is the secret to living well, too." (Monty)

©2019 Monty Don (P)2019 Random House Audio
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Can't wait to hear it again!

Monty Don is a real pleasure to listen to, informative and very inspiring! Loved it!

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All of it

At my age, I still would like to consider myself a beginner gardener. I do not possess any of the great knowledge that is in this book. I have definitely learned several things from listening to this audible book. I greatly appreciate the information.

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Wonderful audiobook

Listening to Monty Don read his own words is quite satisfying and very informational. I'm enjoying his own practical experience and the meaning gardening has had in his life being deposited into mine. It will enrich my own gardening life. Thank you Monty.

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Quiet Joy in a Trying Time

This Audio book did more than educate me in the Garden, it brought a quiet joy. I so enjoy how they incorporated nature sounds into the book reading. I was able to learn in an unpretentious way new garden ideas. It was a pleasure to listen and so wonderful in this strange time in history.

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Lovely gardening narrative

Very soothing reading voice-easy listening. Interesting gardening information especially for a novice like myself- I learned a tremendous amount and my garden is benefiting.

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Not designed for audiobook

I love Monty Don very dearly, and his confident and soothing voice made this audiobook no trouble to listen to. However, this book is really more of a reference guide than a narrative, and if I had it in hard copy I’d be flipping back and forth through the sections to get the information I need when I need it. Monty giving precise details on how to prune various shrubs in order of their flowering habits is not the best way to learn that information. Also there are phrases and sentences repeated verbatim in different sections, which is of course no problem when you’re reading a reference book but jarring when you listen.

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