Congratulations to Monty Don on winning the PPA’s Columnist of the Year award. It’s reassuring to see that first class writing still wins out in a media world largely driven by scoops, stories, sleaze and sex. Over the years Monty’s Observer columns helped me see the beauty beyond the banal practicalities of what and how in my garden and the simplistic colour combinations of my early experiments. He definitely played a part in prising open the mind-doors to the lifelong voyage of discovery I’m now on. Thank you, Monty.

Link to PPA awards listing

August 21, 2009