Monty Don

Monty Don OBE VMH
Don in 2011
Born	George Montagu Don (1955-07-08) 8 July 1955 (age 68) Iserlohn, West Germany
Nationality	British
Other names	Montagu Denis Wyatt Don
Alma mater	Magdalene College, Cambridge
Occupations	Horticulturist broadcaster writer
Years active	1989–present
Television	Gardeners' World
Spouse	Sarah Erskine (1983–present)
Website	montydon.com

Montagu Denis Wyatt Don OBE VMH (born George Montagu Don; 8 July 1955) is a British horticulturist, broadcaster, and writer who is best known as the lead presenter of the BBC gardening television series Gardeners' World.

Born in Germany and raised in England, Don studied at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he met his future wife. They ran a successful costume jewellery business through the 1980s until the stock market crash of 1987 resulted in almost complete bankruptcy. In 1989, Don made his television debut as a regular on This Morning with a gardening segment, which led to further television work across the decade including his own shows for BBC Television and Channel 4. Don began his writing career at this time and published his first of over 25 books, in 1990. Between 1994 and 2006, Don wrote a weekly gardening column in The Observer.

In 2003, Don replaced Alan Titchmarsh as the lead presenter of Gardeners' World, only leaving the show between 2008 and 2011 owing to illness. Since then he has written and produced several garden series of his own, the most recent being Monty Don's Spanish Gardens which aired in 2024.