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…
A study has claimed that Brits are ripping out timber decking and falling in love with lawns again – but timber experts say the survey is as rotten as old grass clippings.
Lawn firm GreenThumb quizzed 2,000 people and concluded that decking, made popular by Ground Force, is “becoming a distant memory”.
“Thankfully, having decking appears to have just been a fad,”…
Alan Titchmarsh plans to avoid the gardens of the great and good – and focus on plots made by ordinary Brits in his new ITV1 series.
Love Your Garden, which starts at 8pm on Friday 10 June, will see Alan travel the UK to track down inspirational home gardens.
The former Ground Force star will show viewers how to recreate the look…
One of gardeners’ favourite exotic plants is being wiped out by an evil-smelling frothy-orange slime.
Royal Horticultural Society experts have been inundated with “hundreds” of enquiries from gardeners whose dying cordyline palms are displaying unusual symptoms.
The cause has been identified as slime flux: a bacterial infection that’s attacked palms for the first time in the UK, following the coldest December in…
Alan Titchmarsh is to host a prime-time gardening show on ITV to rival Gardeners’ World.
The two-year deal will earn the green-fingered star a reported £5million.
Alan’s earnings could be much higher, as ITV plans to launch Titchmarsh-branded products, which will be introduced to gardeners over five years.
The new programme may even go head-to-head with Gardeners’ World on Friday nights.
ITV, however, has…
Alan Titchmarsh’s former family home and garden, the location for Gardeners’ World for seven years, is for sale.
Barleywood, at Alton in Hampshire, is on the market for £925,000. From 1996 to 2002, the 1.2 acre (0.5ha) plot was the most recognisable garden in the UK.
Four million viewers tuned in on Friday nights to watch Alan tend Barleywood with Chris Beardshaw,…
