Meet Sara Don. Wife gardeners worldPresented by Monty Don. In 2022 he spoke with gardeners world magazine podcast with editor Lucy Hall and revealed that she is “totally supportive” when it comes to working in her Herefordshire garden, Longmeadow. The presenter revealed that they disagreed on several occasions, but they support each other a lot.
During the interview, Monty recounted and reflected on the time in 1993 when he accidentally bought 1,100 trees at auction instead of 12. Lucy asked about Sarah’s reaction to the 1,100 trees. He said: “She wasn’t entirely happy about it, mainly because we couldn’t afford it and it took a lot of effort for her to raise the money. But in those days, of course, everything was paid by check, and I did it on Saturday, so there was no danger of the check bouncing before Wednesday. I had three days to collect the money, which I did.”
Monty later praised his wife, saying: “Sarah has always been very supportive of her partner in crime. One of the things I always say in private, and should say publicly whenever I can, is that it’s her garden as much as it is mine. This is not my garden, it is our garden. It’s always ‘us’.”
He added: “Every big decision, even a lot of small ones, we both agree on and we have the principle that we both have the right to veto everything. It’s a really good way to make the system work because what it means is if you don’t agree Okay, and we do a lot of things, you can’t just do it and say ‘Live with it’.
Monty concluded: “You may have terrible arguments, you may have to do a lot of convincing, it may mean negotiating. The plant may take two years to seed, but when it does, you’ve made a deal. But for the most part we get along, and sometimes it happens that you accept a quiet life, and then, really irritatingly, you realize that they were right all along.”
Below you will find information about her age, job, maiden name, and her ex-husband.
Meet Sarah Don, wife of Monty Don
gardeners worldHost Monty Don is married to his wife Sarah Don. They have been married for 39 years after meeting at Cambridge University before getting married in 1983.
speaking to abbreviated version, Monty said: “Shortly after we met, he needed help with his little garden, so I told him I would mow his lawn; the lawn was not big enough to justify the purchase of a lawn mower. She dumped me, but all I could find for the job were scissors. I got to my knees and was about to finish when she came back. I will never forget the look on her face, a look I have come to know well over the past 37 years. It was a mixture of utter disbelief mixed with, dare I say, approval.”
The gardeners shared a sweet snapshot of him and Sarah on their wedding day on July 28, 2022. Monty captioned the post: “We got married 39 years ago today – the picture is a little faded, a little wrinkled, just like us, but love is evergreen now and as strong as it was all those years ago.”
He previously described how he used kitchen shears to cut all of Sarah’s grass to seduce her. Monty claimed that he was unable to locate the keys to the shed at the time of the romantic gesture and had to improvise. He was willing to spend hours mowing the lawn by hand to impress his future wife. Monty then revealed that Sarah believed him to be a “romantic goofball”.
Monty added: “I met my wife and I was courting her by cutting her lawn, with her kitchen shears, because I couldn’t find the key to the shed where the lawnmower was. She thought then, as now, that I was a fool. But a romantic fool. We were only 25, but we bought a house with the biggest garden we could afford,” he told the 2013 Edinburgh Literary Festival.
The couple have three children, Tom, Adam, and Freya, and are even proud grandparents to George and Daisy Rose.
Sarah Don’s first husband
In Monty Don’s book The Jewel Garden, he revealed that his wife was “the one”. When they met, Sarah was married and a divorce was needed to “work things out”. Monty added: “It took a bit of time and a divorce to fix things, but he was right.”
Sarah also revealed how she left her first husband for gardeners world leader. She met Monty, who was a student, and his ex-husband was a graduate student at the same university.
“In 1979, I left my well-to-do husband for this penniless student,” she admitted. “Trying to escape the inevitable mess we had created, Montagu and I fled together to the North York Moors, where we were offered rooms in a house for the winter.”
Sarah, who refuses to call her now-husband by his first name, recalled that they used to pay rent by riding the landlord’s horse every day and painting all the windows as payment. Despite the idyllic love story, she admitted that they ran into financial difficulties after the elopement.
“Now we look back on that time as a rich experience,” he said. “But there were real difficulties.”
It is also later revealed that Monty and Sarah’s first husband are related. The second discovery is a royal connection: that Sir Alexander Erskine of Gogar, guardian of James VI and I, who was King of Scotland for 36 years when he became King of England and Ireland, was one of the Don’s ancestors.
Monty said: “I am a direct relative of my wife’s first husband. I didn’t find this out until I made the show. That’s pretty remarkable.”
In Monty’s favor was the fact that her husband was in Nepal at the time and had not contacted her for three months.
sarah gift age
As of September 2022, Sarah Don is 68 years old.
What is Sarah Don’s date of birth?
Sarah Don’s exact date of birth is unclear. However, she was born in February 1954.
Where is Sarah Don from?
As of 2022, Sarah Don currently resides in Herefordshire, England.
sarah don work
Sarah Don, after meeting her husband Monty, started a jewelry business. Monty shared: “We employ 20 people internally and hire hundreds of outside workers. We had a store in Beauchamp Place, SW1 and we sold in 30 countries, with 60 points of sale in the United States”.
Vogue gave them its stamp of approval, and Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Liberty stocked their creations. “Jewellery has its value solely by its design and appearance, not by the price of the material. Our jewelery is still in the V&A.”
Diana, Princess of Wales, Boy George and Michael Jackson were among his patrons, and even Monty and Sarah were welcomed to Downing Street. Although she tried to keep a low profile, Sarah was a skilled jeweler and contributed 75% of the creative ideas. Her husband made up the other 25%, he was a super salesman and very passionate.
Monty added: “When we fly, we really fly. In our prime, we were the best in the world at what we did. But we were never as successful as our publicity brought to other people, and to ourselves. We were hopelessly undercapitalized and constantly in debt.”
With the US being their main market and stores canceling orders for which the Dons had previously contracted with their own suppliers, and obtained loans, they were completely destroyed by the Wall Street Crash of 1987. “Our crash was spectacular. All the time we pretended to be businessmen, and now our mask has been exposed.”
They were only able to pay off their debts by selling the house.
“The jewelry business was a lot of fun for three of our nine years,” Monty says. “I worked with someone I loved. And I loved the tools and skills that came with it. We certainly learned a lot from the whole experience.”
Although the venture was a team effort, Sarah revealed in her book The Jewel Garden that she often felt ignored by customers compared to super salesman Monty. “She spent months working on creating, drawing, refining, going back and forth to the factory, checking samples, sorting in public,” she wrote. “It’s always been a collaboration, although the owner of the factory that made our jewelry seems to only listen to Montagu (Monty’s name).”
She added: “I was invisible.”
Now Sarah helps her husband with the gardening. She has also worked for companies such as Flux Media Limited as a designer, writer and secretary at The Monty Project Limited. In addition, she wrote several books with her husband.
Sarah Don net worth
In 2022, Sarah Don’s net worth should be over £500,000.
Related FAQ
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When is Sarah Don’s birthday?
Sarah Don’s birthday is in February.
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What is Sarah Don’s maiden name?
Sarah Don’s maiden name is Erskine.
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Is Sarah Don on Instagram?
No, Sarah Don doesn’t seem to be on Instagram.
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