CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews the weekend’s TV: Alan Titchmarsh shovelling time fillers like manure

Love Your Weekend Rating: Louis Theroux: Life On The Edge  Rating: Out in the gardens of Highgrove, Gloucestershire home to the Prince of Wales, the hollyhocks and late hydrangeas are murmuring to each other: ‘People said Charlie was mad to talk to the likes of us. They’re not laughing now!’ His Royal Highness is equally … Read more

Gardening guru Alan Titchmarsh will go head-to-head with veteran journalist Andrew Marr

It’s Titchmarsh vs Marr! Gardening guru Alan Titchmarsh will go head-to-head with veteran journalist Andrew Marr for Sunday morning TV crown Andrew Marr’s programme interviewing political heavyweights airs at 9am Mr Titchmarsh will present Love Your Weekend on ITV at 9.25am as it airs Mr Titchmarsh’s two-hour show is being compared with the BBC’s Countryfile  … Read more

Alan Titchmarsh, Jeremy Hunt and Phil Spencer blast plans for waste incinerator

A string of high profile names including celebrity gardener Alan Titchmarsh have submitted furious objections to plans for a ‘ruinous’ waste incinerator.   Waste contractor Veolia submitted plans in June to convert its site on the A31 near Alton in Hampshire into a waste incinerator.  But it has sparked a backlash from home owners in the … Read more

Alan Titchmarsh reveals he has lost a STONE since having to work his own four-acre garden

Alan Titchmarsh reveals he has dropped a STONE in lockdown and credits weight-loss to tending his own four-acre garden for NINE hours a day By Isabella Nikolic For Mailonline Published: 01:10 BST, 19 May 2020 | Updated: 01:13 BST, 19 May 2020 He has spent lockdown tending to his garden and filming a new ITV … Read more

How Alan Titchmarsh felt ‘teary’ after garden centre owner gives away £500,000 worth of plants

How Alan Titchmarsh felt ‘teary’ after garden centre owner gives away £500,000 worth of plants instead of binning them during lockdown TV gardener Titchmarsh ‘had a tear’ when Hampshire homes were given plants Kirton Farm Nurseries, of Winchester, is handing out free flowers to households Its ‘Plants for People’ scheme has seen volunteers deliver to … Read more

Unlock our garden centres – and feed the nation’s souls, says ALAN TITCHMARSH

Like the majority of the population, I have been hunkered down at home for the past month, determined to do my bit to reduce the spread of Covid-19. Aside from the odd walk for exercise, I have been nowhere, but seldom have I felt more in tune with nature and ‘real life’ thanks to my … Read more