A new series in which Monty Don is in conversation with six of the country's leading gardeners.

Dr D.G. Hessayon, author of the bestselling Garden Expert books.

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Dr DG Hessayon (known as Dave to his friends) is the first of Monty Don's (above) Gardening Gurus (2.45pm R4). A shy and treasured specimen, he emerges from the shrubbery of anonymity to grant a rare interview and proves to be an attractive, robust, blooming and hardy perennial, originally of Armenian-Cypriot stock but rooted in Manchester. Selling an astonishing 42 million Garden Expert books has allowed him to progress from a tiny, semi-detached plot to 24 rolling Essex acres, where he seems to grow everything with, as you'd imagine, considerable success.
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