The person who got me through 2021: Monty Don inspired my new, obsessive love of gardening

My admiration for the Gardeners' World presenter took seed in lockdown and kept growing, thanks to his calming aura amid the mayhem Years ago I collected my new prescription glasses and walked home staring up like a person who had time-travelled from a pre-aeroplane era: I had no idea trees had individual leaves that could be seen from the ground. Before 2020, I had never noticed gardens, either: they were things that old people liked and neighbourhood dads mowed constantly. The garden attached ...