Yew must be joking!

From: The Daily Mail (London, England) | Date: April 26, 2008 | Copyright information

Byline: Rebecca Camber

THEY say you reap what you sow.

And when Monty Don returned from a tour of the world's greatest gardens toextol the virtues of British plants above others, he presumably hoped toinspire.

Instead, the BBC presenter has ignited controversy by telling growers to stickto our native species and turf out foreign ones.

Don - who recently hosted the Around The World In 80 Gardens series - nowstands accused of trying to uproot thousands of years of plantcollectinghistory in the UK.

At the Oxford Literary Festival, he told his audience: 'British ...

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