The height of early 1960s ambition would be a rose bed filled with Hybrid Teas and Floribundas emerging from a smoothly raked carpet of grey dust. It would be a good few years before the ‘mixed border ...

Broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh soared to stardom in the 1990s on his beloved BBC gardening shows - but it hasn't always been ...

the garden shed Back to his roots: Alan Titchmarsh designed a garden at Chelsea this year, 29 years after he won a ... what was taken for the norm in his early career in the Ilkley Urban District ...

Alan Titchmarsh ... 48 years ago - and it was just around then that he picked up a trawl and a watering can for the first time. They first met when they were both in their early 20s at an amateur ...

My early days of apprenticeship in the nursery involved the winter ... if you want a reminder of the way things were done 150 years ago. You can still find pre-1940 moulded-clay flowerpots on online ...