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ITV is on the lookout for Amateur Gardening readers deserving of a full garden makeover by Alan Titchmarsh.
As Alan revealed in AG’s 4 February issue, his Love Your Garden series will be extended to six, hour-long episodes when it returns this summer.
For the first time, former Ground Force host Alan will makeover an entire garden for people who deserve a helping…
Gardeners must not be “snooty” about bedding plants and should fill plots with a riot of colour, telly gardener Alan Titchmarsh has said.
Former Ground Force host Alan told AG that gardeners will be forced to try different bedding plants this year, as retailers stop selling busy Lizzies due to the downy mildew crisis.
“It’s time to look again at bedding begonias…
The Daily Telegraph has published a list of Britain’s top 30 most influential gardeners – but it contains a few surprises.
Alan Titchmarsh leads the great and good of the gardening world, even though he stood down as lead presenter of Gardeners’ World almost a decade ago.
Readers on The Daily Telegraph website bemoaned the omission of AG’s Bob Flowerdew, as well…
The AG team delivers its verdict on 2011′s gardening TV. Do you agree? Have your say at the end of this article:
BBC GARDENERS’ WORLD – reviewed by AG editor Tim Rumball
ANY GARDENING programme on telly is a good thing, and I like Monty Don, so I watch Gardeners’ World regularly.
He’s intelligent, thoughtful and enjoys growing crops and ornamental plants. Monty…
Green groups have lashed out after an influential organic gardener demanded the right to use peat.
Writing in AG, Bob Flowerdew, the BBC Radio 4 Gardeners’ Question Time panellist, made the ultimate organic taboo: he confessed to using a small amount of peat in loam-based sowing compost.
Bob argued that peat was a renewable resource and suggested: “Why not let us have…
Gardening is to get its own version of Comic Relief.
The first Garden Re-Leaf Day will take place on 13 March with a nationwide programme of fund-raising events aimed at gardeners of all levels of expertise.
All proceeds will be donated to Greenfingers, the garden industry charity that creates gardens at children’s hospices.
Organiser Boyd Douglas-Davies said Garden Re-Leaf had been inspired by…
A new National Gardening Week aims to get Brits sowing, hoeing and mowing in 2012.
Set to take place on 16 to 22 April, nurseries, garden centres, garden clubs, charities, schools and the media are all being urged to get involved.
The initiative was devised by the Royal Horticultural Society, which will give away 20,000 gardening starter packs with free seeds.
Gardeners will…
Alan Titchmarsh has claimed his new ITV series outperformed expectations, but brushed aside critics’ claims that it’s lightweight on horticultural content.
Speaking exclusively to AG, Alan said Love Your Garden attracted average audiences of 3.5million viewers, peaking at 3.8million.
As well as returning for four episodes this autumn, a second series will run in 2012.
“It’s quite scary to do a new programme,” said Alan.…
Another influential gardening expert has defended his use of peat.
Nigel Colborn, gardening columnist for the Daily Mail and chair of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Trials Advisory Committee, said he uses peat “sparingly and carefully.”
His comments come after Alan Titchmarsh admitted he “sometimes uses peat” as alternatives such as coir had “used up too many air miles” (AG, 30 April).
Following a…
After months of waiting, Alan Titchmarsh’s new ITV1 series Love Your Garden is underway.
And here at Amateur Gardening, we’d love to know what you thought of it.
It’s no secret that telly gardening has been in the doldrums in recent years.
So with Alan’s first programme looking at traditional English gardens in normal streets, has it inspired you to get outdoors this…
