Monty Don trapped in Herefordshire dwelling by flooding

Celeb gardener Monty Don has revealed he and his spouse have been caught inside their home earlier this week as they turned flooded in.

The horticulturist and broadcaster, 69, stated the growing frequency of flooding within the UK was “proving to be a a lot larger drawback than drought”.

“I stay in Herefordshire. We stay on a flood plain, so flooding has at all times been a part of life there,” he stated.

“However it’s positively bought worse. It is positively bought extra frequent.”

Don is the principle presenter of TV present Gardeners’ World, which he hosts from his personal backyard, Longmeadow.

He has not too long ago been filming for a brand new collection, Monty Don’s British Gardens, by which he travels throughout the UK to find what gardens can inform us concerning the nation.

“I feel gardeners in all places are having to take care of [climate change],” he stated.

“One of many issues of filming from the north of Scotland, proper by means of Britain, is you are seeing, wherever we went, individuals have been having to take care of adjustments.

“And floods are proving to be a a lot larger drawback than drought truly.

“Twenty years in the past, in case you’d requested me about local weather change, I’d have stated that we’ll be in a Mediterranean local weather, and we have to adapt to that.

“I feel what’s shaping up is, we’ve got these huge occasions, and our gardens are very moist, and so they’re very dry, and so they’re very chilly, and that is tough.”

Don added: “What’s so odd is it isn’t like we have had weeks and weeks and weeks of rain. It may be virtually in a single day and the waters come up.

“On Monday, for instance, my spouse and I could not get out of the home or backyard. We have been flooded in.

“No-one might are available, no-one can exit.

“That is tremendous [but] I’ve a 97-year-old neighbour. If something had occurred to him, it could have been a helicopter time, I suppose.”