Monty Don Quotes


Sweet peas should smell. Half the point of growing sweet peas is to cut them for the house; they should fill a room with an almost painful olfactory inarticulateness. But most sweet peas smell of nothing. This does not stop them being beautiful, but they are like food with no flavour.


Citations

Don, Monty. The Complete Gardener. Dorling Kindersley, 2003.

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Monty Don
Monty Don
  • Born: July 8, 1955
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Television Presenter, Gardener, Writer

Montagu Denis Wyatt "Monty" Don OBE is a British broadcaster and writer on horticulture who is best known as lead presenter of the BBC gardening television series Gardeners' World since 2003.