Gardeners’ World presenter Monty Don has shared the two simple ways he manages to stave off his worst health fears.
Monty, who has been a staple on our screens for years thanks to the hit BBCshow, has revealed the two ways he manages to keep his health in-check with simple exercises.
Thanks to spending decades on his knees as he tends to plants, he admitted that they’ve ‘decayed’ down the years, but has said that he has been able to protect them by using rowing machines as well as weightlifting.
Meanwhile, the celebrity gardener says he fully intends to keep doing what he loves, travelling the world with his 87-year-old photographer for his books, Derry Moore.
Monty said: “And we travel the world together. I fully intend to carry on gallivanting like that for as long as my knees will allow it.”
Despite giving much time and thought to his health, the garden guru counts himself lucky to be born in the era that he has: “Having said that, there’s never in the history of humanity been a better time to be in your seventies. We’ve had fantastic healthcare, a really good diet, by and large a freedom from the cloud of war that no generation ever has had.
“My parents died in their fifties, and when I was a child anyone who was 70 was old, anyone who was 80 was very old and it was barely heard of anyone reaching 90, whereas now it’s so common as to not be worth discussing,” he told the Times.
As avid gardeners tune into his weekly episode of Gardeners’ World on BBC Two, they’ll have become accustomed to his pearls of wisdom on all things gardening. He recently enlightened listener’s of the shows podcast on how they should deal with ‘unsightly’ black spots on flowers this autumn, saying: “The only practical thing you can do is, don’t water overhead. You can’t stop the rain, but don’t wet the leaves, keep the leaves dry,” the Daily Mirror reported.
Monty, who was awarded an OBE in 2018 for his services to charity, broadcasting, and horticulture became a household name in the early 1990s when he presented BBC shows Holiday and Tomorrow’s World having previously featured on ITV’s This Morning.