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atdening expert Alan Titchmarsh is a man who , ■ likes some order in his life - and away from the hectic celebrity world
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lines in the garden and my house lends itself to a bit offomnality.
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“My garden’s relatively formal," he admits. “I like good -
“There’s quite a lot of clipped box and yew, but as you
get further away from the house it winds and wends and is more inform^. ■
^ “It has good hard lines, with overflowing borders with perennials, lavenders and all kinds of plants. I do like order. I have to stop myself from having OCD but within
hard lines I do like areas where plants can billow and bubble out.” Alan says such rigid order has an extremely calming
effect on him. “The garden has always been an oasis. There are some great sweeps of lavim. I love lawn. I love ' ■
the moronic task of mowing and the fact that I know I’ll ■ have to do it again next week. It’s lovely that I can create *? strips - it gives me a sense of order and calm.”
' The one-acre garden surrounds his old Georgian '
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create a garden that is in-keeping with the farmhouse but ■ not too regimented, he says. It’s crammed with sumptuous fruit and vegetables such
as apple, pear and plum trees, and there is also a small v^etable patch where the presenter grows onions, ■ climbing French beans, courgettes, carrots and parsnips. I ve not gone to the point where I don’t have anything
in the garden which isn’t Georgian, but it does look comfortable with th© hous6.”
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There’s arguably no place like home, but tor TV presenter Alan Titchmarsh, life revolves around the back'yard. HANNAH STEPHENSON visits his secret garden...
to begin filming a new BBC senes, Alan’s Garden Secrets, has an even more important family project in hand. He’s - growing several varieties of lilies for eldest daughter Polly’s
wedding in July. Family is all-important to the
season^ horticulturist, who dotes on his two grown-up daughters,
Polly and Camilla. ■ “When you get to my time of life,
' you’verworked out what’s really important to you and what you really love. I’m very close to my
family. I’ve worked for 45 years now and been to a heck of a lot of places. I don’t think anything would persuade me to
^go and work abroad for three months. It just couldn’t match what I’ve got at home.” Of course, with his busy
■TV schedule, hosting his own chat show, recently co-presenting Popstar To
When we moved from Barleywood I said
this one’s ours. We’d had so'many years of camera crews in the;ga[den I felt that i owed it to myself and to my family.’
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Alan, 60, who has his own ITVI chat show and is soon v Operastar with Myleene Klass and filming his latest 'gardening series,- he doesn’t spend as much time as he’d,
like in his ovim garden. ■ He’s reluctant to expose too much of his own personal space to the TV-masses, so you won’t see pictures of his
garden or his house on the screen. When he was the main presenter of Gardener’s World,
he allowed cameras into his former garden, Barieywood, a couple of miles away, but when he moved to.his present house seven years ago he decided not to allow filming there. “When we moved from Barieywood I
said this one’s ours. We’d had so many years of having camera crews in the _ ■ garden most days and I felt that I T owed it to myself and to my family
‘ \ to have a more private garden.” He is, however, working on a
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' book about his latest garden so y people can see pictures of it. ‘TTie difficulty is that I love
sharing it. If you have something % P.
coming out, you want to say, come . and look at this! But it’s been nice to have used rny present garden as an oasis rather than a workshop.” The son of a plumber,
Titchmarsh grevv up in the ■:: ' Yorkshire Dales and worked ,as an apprentice gardener with llkley . Council before studying horticulture at several colleges and later gaining a place at the
Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, where -
he both studied and worked before Alan with fellow Ground Force ; /
'■ presenters Tommy Walsh and’Charlie ^ Dimmock enjoyed a ratings winner
pursuing a career in gardening journalism. He presented Gardener’s World for seven years and Ground Force for six, but will not comment on the news that Gardener’s World is to return to its roots after its more youthful relaunch proved a ratings failure with the viewing public. “It’s for the public to say what they think and for the viewing audience to vote with their eyes or not. “I don’t really want to comment, except to say that I
think gardening programmes do need to be lucid and clear and instruct. But I don’t think it’s my place to criticise cunent regimes.” He’s also quashed rumours that he is returning
to the show, although his latest BBC series, scheduled to be shown in the autumn, will demonstrate how to recreate some of Britain’s showpiece gardens. As well as a keen horticulturist and broadcaster, he has
also made a name for himself as an author of many gardening books and has just added another five titles to his latest series. How To Garden. He has wntten three. . -
^ autobiographies and a stnng of romantic fiction novels, - including Mr MacGregor, Love And Dr. Devon and Folly.. , He’s also working with the Royal Horticultural Society, providing funds to give grants to primary schools to make ■ gardens and nature areas and has so far funded more ■. ■
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than 500 gardens. “It’s good to put something back,” he says simply. :' He writes in a converted stone bam next to the house,
overlooking the garden, and you’ll often see him looking - out of the skylight above his desk. He also does some : ■ writing at his second home in the Isle of Wight., He has help from two gardeners who maintain a further
35 acres of field and wood beyond the old house at, Barieywood, which has been kept as a nature reserve, and a further three acres on top of his acre of garden ■ surrounding the existing house, which contains a wild • flower meadow and avenues of beech trees. . ■ “Being out there and pottenng has got more important
to me as I’ve got older,” he continues. “I find great solace in it. I like being a part of nature.”
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