Alan Fred Titchmarsh CBE is a Gardener, Author and TV Presenter of a range of programmes including Love Your Garden.
Alan was born in Ilkley, West Riding of Yorkshire on 2nd May 1949, his Father was a plumber and part time fireman, his Mother was a textile worker.
His father was a typical Yorkshireman and they both instilled in him very strong family values.
Sunday afternoon walks on the moors around Wharfdale and a childhood surrounded by nature gave Alan a love for the outdoors.
Alan's Grandfather was a gardener but his father was not so keen as he was made to do all the weeding as a child!
As a child Alan enjoyed growing plants in the family back garden and his childhood hero was Perch Thrower.
Alan sang treble in the choir at his local church and also took to the stage with his local Amateur operatic society and also the Ilkley Players.
Alan Titchmarsh left Ilkley County Secondary School at 15 and his first paid green fingered experience was as an apprentice gardener for 4 years.
Alan enrolled full time at Shipley Art and Technology Institute to study for a City & Guilds in Horticulture.
He then went to Hertfordshire College of Agriculture leaving with a National Certificate in Horticulture.
A national Diploma in Horticulture at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew was his next step, where he was then employed as a supervisor and staff trainer.
Alan Titchmarsh and wife Alison Titchmarsh met performing amateur dramatics and the pair got married in 1975.
Alan Titchmarsh has 2 daughters, Camilla and Polly Titchmarsh and four grandchildren.
Alan first appeared on our screens as the Horticulture expert on Nationwide.
In 1983 he was to present the BBC coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show for 30 years until 2013.
Alan then went on to be a regular on our screens appearing on BBC news and Pebble Mill at One before he was to become the host of Gardeners' World.
Ground Force with Charlie Dimmock and Tommy Walsh brought a new wave of gardening makeover shows to the masses of amateur armchair gardeners.
One of the most memorable episodes was when they flew out to South Africa to makeover Nelson Mandela's garden.
How to be a Gardener ran for 2 series and took us back to common sense garden and away from decking and quick fix solutions.
Alan Titchmarsh hosts Love your Garden, the show first aired in June 2011 but with a very different format to the garden makeover show we all know and love.
In series 1 Alan visited themed gardens around the UK, each week featuring a different specific theme.
Series 2 saw the start of the much loved format of creating inspirational gardens for people that deserved them most.
Alan was joined by his trusty team of gardeners including David Domoney, Katie Rushworth and Frances Tophill,
Love Your Garden ran for 13 series and ended in 2022 and has changed the life and gardens of the recipients and inspired gardeners to makeover their own gardens.
Alan career has taken many turns from his TV appearances presenting Songs of Praise, Documentaries, Popstar to Opera Star and even being the voice of a gnome in Gordon the Garden Gnome for CBeebies!
Alan has also had his own chat show The Alan Titchmarsh Show, hosted the Antiques Roadshow and presented Secrets of the National Trust.
Alan Titchmarsh career also includes events, his Radio shows for Radio 2 as well as his many novels.
Alan presented a 2 part series The Queen's Garden which was filmed over a year at Buckingham Palace gardens.
In 2026 Alan Titchmarsh will be having a garden at RHS Chelsea Flower show as an RHS Ambassador and for the Kings Foundation.
The Curious Garden will be designed by Frances Tophill with Alan and Sir David Beckham helping her!
Alan Titchmarsh is now well into his 70's and although slowed down somewhat with Love Your Garden and Alan Titchmarsh's Gardening Club not being shown anymore he still busy with his weekend programmes and looks like retiring is not happening just yet!
Alan Titchmarsh has moved from his house near Alton in Hampshire with 4 acre garden and has down sized to a more manageable home and Garden.
Alan new house a 16th Century Cottage in Surrey garden transformation is being documented on his social media.
Alan also has a house on the Isle of Wight at Cowes, where he does his writing.
Alan Titchmarsh Awards
2000
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
2001
Deputy Lieutenant of the County O Hampshire
2004
Royal Horticultural Society's Victoria Medal of Honour
2008
High Sheriff of the Isle of Wight
2025
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Currently I am only listing gardening related programmes and books. Alan has had a very varied career as a presenter, chat show host, poet and author.
Alan Titchmarsh TV Shows
1983 - 2013
RHS Chelsea Flower Show
1996 - 2002
Gardeners' World
1997 - 2002
Ground Force
2002 - 2026
How to be a Gardener
2004
A Year at Kew - Narrator
2010
Alan Titchmarsh's Garden Secrets
The Seasons with Alan Titchmarsh
2011 - 2022
2011
Love Your Garden Series 1
Love Your Garden Series 1 Episode 1: The Traditional British Garden
Love Your Garden Series 1 Episode 2: The Country Garden
Love Your Garden Series 1 Episode 3: The Formal Garden
Love Your Garden Series 1 Episode 4: The City Garden
Love Your Garden Series 1 Episode 5: The Fantasy Garden
Love Your Garden Series 1 Episode 6: The Flower Garden
Love Your Garden Series 1 Episode 7: The Entertaining Garden
Love Your Garden Series 1 Episode 8: The Exotic Garden
Love Your Garden Series 1 Episode 9: The Seaside Garden
Love Your Garden Series 1 Episode 10: The Rose Garden
Love Your Garden Series 1 Episode 11: The Secret Garden
Love Your Garden Series 1 Episode 12: The Cottage Garden
2012
Love Your Garden Series 2
First aired 26 June 2012
Love Your Garden Series 2 Episode 1: Hampshire
Love Your Garden Series 2 Episode 2: Brecon Beacons
Love Your Garden Series 2 Episode 3: Barking Iris Insole
Love Your Garden Series 2 Episode 4: Wendy ang Graham Pott
Love Your Garden Series 2 Episode 5: Norwich The Costello Family
Love Your Garden Series 2 Episode 6: South Yorkshire Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice
2013
Love Your Garden Series 3 Episode 1: Hurst Green The Dean Family
Love Your Garden Series 3 Episode 2: Cambridge The Sola Family
Love Your Garden Series 3 Episode 3: Morden The Nwosu Family
Love Your Garden Series 3 Episode 4: Winchcombe Cheltenham The Mason Family
Love Your Garden Series 3 Episode 5: Woking Surrey The Phillips Family
Love Your Garden Series 3 Episode 6: Hereford The Nixon Family
Love Your Garden Series 3 Episode 7: Tonbridge Kent The Webb Family
Love Your Garden Series 3 Episode 8: Ulverston Cumbria The Pyne Family
2014
The Queen's Garden
Love Your Garden Series 4 Episode 1: Manchester The Chan Family
Love Your Garden Series 4 Episode 2 Cambridge The Estick Family:
Love Your Garden Series 4 Episode 3: Burton-upon-Trent The McGinn Family
Love Your Garden Series 4 Episode 4: Runcorn The Weller Family
Love Your Garden Series 4 Episode 5: Bideford The Woods Family
Love Your Garden Series 4 Episode 6: London Joan Myers OBE
Love Your Garden Series 4 Episode 7: The Chapman Family
Love Your Garden Series 4 Episode 8: The Simpson Family
2015
Britain's Best Back Gardens
Titchmarsh on Capability Brown
First aired on 23 June 2015
Love Your Garden Series 5 Episode 1: Walsall, The Seedhouse Family
Love Your Garden Series 5 Episode 2: Moorland, Somerset, The Colquhoun Family
Love Your Garden Series 5 Episode 3: Cornwall, The Finney Family
Love Your Garden Series 5 Episode 4: Chessington, The Rendall Family
Love Your Garden Series 5 Episode 5: The Iqbal Family
Love Your Garden Series 5 Episode 6: Hull, The Simkiss Family
Love Your Garden Series 5 Episode 7: Wiveliscombe, South West, The Golden Girls
Love Your Garden Series 5 Episode 8: Dorset, The Drake Family
Love Your Garden Series 5 Episode 9: Wild Garden Special at Keech Hospice, Luton
2016
First aired on 28 June 2016
Love Your Garden Series 6 Episode 1 - Hull, Iris
Love Your Garden Series 6 Episode 2 - Nottingham, Tilly & the Sawford Family
Love Your Garden Series 6 Episode 3 - Canterbury, Magar Family
Love Your Garden Series 6 Episode 4 - Bolton, Caroline Hall
Love Your Garden Series 6 Episode 5 - Eastleigh near Southampton, Rosie & the Frost Family
Love Your Garden Series 6 Episode 6 - Durham, Sam & the Hunter Family
2017 - 2019
Love Your Home and Garden
Love Your Garden Series 7 Episode 1 - Plymouth Mark
Love Your Garden Series 7 Episode 2 - Salford Betty & Rita
Love Your Garden Series 7 Episode 3 - Chandlers Ford Richardson Family
Love Your Garden Series 7 Episode 4 - Shrewsbury Gina
Love Your Garden Series 7 Episode 5 - Eastbourne Jack's Garden
Love Your Garden Series 7 Episode 6 - Southampton Jordan Family
Love Your Garden Series 7 Episode 7 - Hythe Isabelle's Garden
Love Your Garden Series 7 Episode 8 - Blackpool Zoo zookeeper John Paul Houston
Love Your Garden Series 7 Episode 9 - Nottingham Baz
2018
First aired 16 February 2018
Love Your Garden Series 8 Episode 1 - Betty Richards From Fareham
Love Your Garden Series 8 Episode 2 - Nathan Cumberland from Newark
Love Your Garden Series 8 Episode 3 - Pat Wade from Basildon, Essex
Love Your Garden Series 8 Episode 4 - Roisin Pelan from Preston
Love Your Garden Series 8 Episode 5 - Irene Hicks from Cardiff Wales
Love Your Garden Series 8 Episode 6 - Fiona Kirlew from Nottingham
Love Your Garden Series 8 Episode 7 - Jim Thompson from Yorkshire
Love Your Garden Series 8 Episode 8 - Jeroume, Onessa & Elijah Cariazo from Hackney
2019
Fifty Shades of Green with Alan Titchmarsh
First aired 27 August 2019Episode 1 Daniel, Jordan Lola & Jasper Bradbury from Hucknall near NottinghamEpisode 2 Rob & Margaret Isdale from Grantham, LincolnshireEpisode 3 Jack & Margaret Parrott from Grassmoor, DerbyshireEpisode 4 Icolyn Smith MBE from OxfordEpisode 5 Rachel, Ped, Isla, George & Betsy from FolkstoneEpisode 6 Lorraine Tilston-Brookes, Doris & Poppy from Swindon WiltshireEpisode 7 Chris Garlick, Karran, Molly, Daniel & Mairwen Pontypool South WalesEpisode 8 Georgie Moseley Sheldon near Birmingham
2020
First aired 25 February 2020
Episode 1 Harri & Erica Torr from Hull, East Yorkshire
Episode 2 Kath Ryan from Hall Green, Birmingham
Episode 3 Kirsty, Phoebe & Sam from Farncombe, Surrey
Episode 4 Age UK Day Centre in Croydon
Episode 5 Pip, John & Harrison from Middlesbrough
Episode 8 Venessa and Raia Sunshine from Waltham Abbey, Essex
First aired 01 September 2020
2021
First aired 07 September 2021
Episode 1 Mel & Theodore from near Taunton. Dunkirk Memorial House
Episode 2 Steve, Eve, Billy and Emmie from Manchester. Sue and Georgia from Liverpool
Episode 3 Jo, Kerry, Flynn & Dogs from Leighton Buzzard. Dawn from Salford.
Episode 4 Carl, Elle, Theo, Ebony & Kenzo from Macclesfield Cheshire. Norma from Accrington. Episode 5 Dale, Laura, Liam, Mathew & Louis from Barry Wales. Krystina, Sienna, Max & Andre from Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.
Episode 6 Margaret Mary from Salford. Tim and Charlotte from Leicester. Episode 7 Donna from Leicester. Jen from Huddersfield.
Episode 8 Shabnam and Amelia from Wakefield. Lesley-Anne from Swansea.
Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh
Alan Titchmarsh: Spring into Summer
2022
First aired 22 March 2022
First aired 19 April 2022
Love Your Garden Episode 1 Burnley
Love Your Garden Episode 2 Sheffield
Love Your Garden Episode 3 Leeds
Love Your Garden Episode 4 Bicester
Love Your Garden Episode 5 Hinckley
Love Your Garden Episode 6 Enfield
Alan Titchmarsh Books
1984
The Allotment Gardener's Handbook
1984
Cacti
1984
Pruning
1984
Healthy House Plants
1984
Bush Roses
1984
Garden Pools
1984
Lawns
1984
Climbing Plants
1985
The Rock Gardener's Handbook
1985
Gardening Under Cover
1986
All About House Plants
1986
Growing and Using Herbs
1986
Bulbs for every Season
1987
Climbers and Wall Plants
1990
1000 Handy Gardening Hints
1993
RHS Garden Techniques
1993
Avant Gardening in the 90s: he New Guide to One-Upmanship in the Garden
1994
How to be a Supergardener
1998
Favourite Gardens
2000
The New Super Gardener: The Nation's Favourite Gardener
2001
Gardeners' World Complete Book of Gardening
2003
The Complete Super gardeners
2004
Royal Gardeners: A History of Britain's Royal Gardens
2005
The Gardener's Year
2005
The Complete How to be a Gardener
2008
The Kitchen Gardener - Grow Your Own Fruit & Veg
2009
How to Garden: Gardening in the Shade
2009
How to Garden: Vegetables and Herbs
2009
How to Garden: Container Gardening
2009
How to Garden: Garden Design
2009
How to Garden: Lawns, Paths and Patios
2009
How to Garden: Pruning and Training
2010
How to Garden: Growing Fruit
2010
How to Garden: Flowering Shrubs
2010
How to Garden: Climbers and Wall Shrubs
2010
How to Garden: Greenhouse Gardening
2010
How to Garden: Perennial Garden Plants
2010
How to be a Gardener: Secrets of Success (Book 2)
2011
How to Garden: Small Gardens
2011
How to Garden: Growing Roses
2011
How to Garden: Wildlife Gardening
2011
How to Garden: Growing Bulbs
2011
How to Garden: Pests and Problems
2012
How to Garden: Small Trees
2012
How to Garden: Allotment Gardening
2012
How to Garden: Instant Colour
2012
How to garden: Weekend Gardening
2012
Love Your Garden
2012
My Secret Garden
2013
How to Garden: Water Gardening
2013
How to Garden: Grow Your Own Plants
2013
How to Garden: Flowers and Foliage for Cutting
2017
RHS Great British Village Show: What goes on Behind the Scenes and How to be a Prize Winner
(Thane Prince, Matthew Biggs)
2021
Grow your own Fruit & Veg
2022
The Gardener's Almanac
2023
Chatsworth: The gardens and the people who made them
(Johnathon Buckley photographer)
Biographies
2002
Trowel and Error
2006
Nobbut A Lad
2009
Knave of Spades
2016
Collected Memoirs
