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ardening expert Alan Titchmarsh is a man .who ;/ likes some order in his life - and away from th e . hectic celebrity world of TV presenting, his •- :


Hampshire garden provides him with just that opportunity. - "My garden’s relatively formal,” he admits. “I like good


: lines in the garden and my house lends itself to a bit ■ offonmality.


‘There’s quite a lot of clipped box and yew, but as you M i t, I 'i k t w . • - •-


get further away from the house it winds and wends and is more informal.


. “It has good hard lines, with overflowing borders with perennials, lavenders and all kinds of plants. I do like . Older. I have to stop myself from having OCD but within


hard lines I do like areas where plants can billow and bubble out.” Alan sa)/s such rigid order has an extremely calming


effect on him. ‘Th e garden has always been an oasis. There are some great sweeps of lawn. I love lawn. 1 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 stops - it gives me a sense of order and calm.” The one-acre garden surrounds his old Georgian


farmhouse, where he lives with his wife, Alison, his cat. Spud, half-a-dozen chickens and six quails. He’s'tried to " create a garden that is in-keeping with the farmhouse, but ^ not too regimented, he says. ■


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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 parenips. “I’ve not gone to the point where I don’t have anything


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in the garden which isn’t Georgian, but it does look ' comfortable with the house.”


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There’s arguably no place like home, but for TV presenter Alan Titchmarsh, life revolvesaround the back'yard. HANNAH STEPHENSON visits his secret garden...


Alan, 60, who has his own ITV1 chat show and is soon 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


seasoned horticultunst, who dotes on his two grown-up daughters. Polly and Camilla, “When you get to my time of life,


you’ve'worked 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 Barieywood I said


this one’s ours. We’d had so many years of' camera crews in the:ga[den I feit that owed it to myself arid to myfamiiy.’


K K * 5Essssaa rA : Operastar with Myleene Klass and filming his latest


i gardening series, he doesn’t spend as much time as he’d like in his own 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


r owed it to myself and to my family 1 to have a more private garden.”


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shanng it. If you have something


coming out, you want to say, come , and look at this! But it’s been nice ' to have used my present garden as an oasis rather than a wortehop.” The son of a plumber,


Titchmarsh grew up in the


• Yorkshire Dales and worked as an I apprentice gardener with llkley , ■ Council before studying horticulture at several colleges ■ and later gaming 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


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> book about his latest garden so / , . V people can see pictures of it. “The difficulty is that I love


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 instoict. But I don’t think it’s my place to criticise current regimes.” He’s also quashed rumours that he is returning


to the show, although his latest BBC senes, 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 senes. How To Garden. He has wntten three • autobiographies and a string 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 ■ than 500 gardens.


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“It’s good to put something back,” he says simply. . ■ ■ • He wntes 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 wnting at his second home in the Isle of Wight. :


' v 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 • sunounding the existing house, which contains a wild flower meadow and avenues of beech trees. “Being out there and pottering 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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