Monty Don admits he worked until his hands were bleeding during ‘rocky’ period

Monty Don presents Gardeners’ World

Monty Don threw himself into gardening and he sold everything he owned when the family went bankrupt.

The Gardeners’ World presenter said his failed business venture with his wife Sarah Don forced the young couple to sell their home.

“I spent a lot of time thinking about [my garden] and drawing up plans but in fact, what I now realise, a particular circumstance in my life,” Monty explained. “We had this jewellery business and we did go bankrupt. We certainly went through rocky times and we had to sell it.”

He added: “We had to sell our house. Basically, everything. We had to sort it out.”

Back in the 1980s, Monty and his wife Sarah ran a fashionable jewellery store, named Monty Don Jewellery, which specialised mostly in costume jewellery.

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Famous clients included the likes of Boy George and Michael Jackson, while Princess Diana herself was said to be a customer but everything changed after the Wall Street financial crash of 1987, and the entrepreneurial couple lost everything.

The 68 year old said he threw himself into gardening during a candid interview with Cambridge University Society titled In Conversation with Monty Don back in 2021.

The UK’s leading garden writer and broadcaster said he pushed himself working in his garden to the point his hands would bleed.

He continued: “So my life was slightly in freefall. I had three small children. I didn’t have enough work.

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“It was really difficult so I was ordering my life in my garden. I was rescuing my life by creating this ordered space that I could control.

“And I was enormously physical about it. But I threw myself into it. I wanted to work as hard as possible. If my hands were not bleeding, I was not working hard enough.”

Monty admitted he would never advise anyone to push themselves to that point due to the toll it took on him both physically and mentally.

He has since gone on to have a successful career as a gardening expert, writer and broadcaster having joined Gardeners’ World in 2003, making him one of the UK’s most recognised horticulturalists.

Gardeners’ Worls airs tonight on BBC Two at 8pm.

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