BBC Gardeners' World star Monty Don and wife 'flooded in' unable to leave home

The presenter is famous for being the face of Gardeners' World
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Monty Don has spoken out about the increasing frequency of flooding in the UK after he and his wife were stuck in their house earlier this week. The UK has been battling snow and ice with weather issued for most of the country and even a rare amber cold weather alert in place until Saturday.

The celebrity gardener opened up about his ordeal in an interview with BBC Radio 4 earlier on today. He said: "I live in Herefordshire. We live on a flood plain, so flooding has always been part of life there, you know, forever, but it’s definitely got worse. It’s definitely got more frequent. And, I mean, I’ve lived where we have for 34 years, and I’ve just observed that."

The presenter is famous for being the face of Gardeners' World. Having been a familiar presence to viewers since 2003, and hosting the show from his Herefordshire garden for more than a decade, Monty Don has also found success as an author, writing bestsellers like 'Nigel: My Family and Other Dogs' and 'Down to Earth'.

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Monty spoke about his new BBC Two show, 'Monty Don's British Gardens', a show that will follow him as he travels across the UK to discover what gardens can tell us about the nation. Talking about the issue of climate change, Monty added "Twenty years ago, if you’d asked me about climate change, I would have said that we’re going to be in a Mediterranean climate, and we need to adapt to that.

"I think what’s shaping up is, we have these big events, and our gardens are very wet, and they’re very dry, and they’re very cold, and that’s tricky. It’s these big dumps of rain that come down. What’s so odd is it’s not like we’ve had weeks and weeks and weeks of rain.

“It can be almost overnight and the waters come up. I mean, on Monday, for example, my wife and I couldn’t get out of the house or garden. We were flooded in. No-one could come in, no-one can go out. Now, that’s fine."

Last year, Monty took to Instagram to share the 'devastating' scenes of flooding at his Hertfordshire home. He said: "This is effectively liquid mud. Experience shows that when it subsides there will be a thick mud slick covering every leaf and every blade of grass - until heavy rain washes it away and, er, causes more flooding."