How to be a gardener

Are your perennials perennially disappointing? Are your daisies looking dazed? And are your daffodils looking a bit daft? Well never fear, Alan Titchmarsh is here. Gardening. It's what sets us from the animals (well, it's either that or the opposable thumbs). It's civilised, inspirational, creative and most of the time, downright annoying. But now you can stop swearing at your sweetpeas. You can stop whacking your wisteria. Alan Titchmarsh brings us 'Back to Basics' with the clearest look at how to garden ever. The Ground Force star is taking the art to it's simplest forms and teaching you the very basics. All too many shows and books ...  Read the complete review

My wife first started watching this so she got a good reference guide to gardening and that what she was doing was right. Now, I'm not much of a fan of gardening, I'll do some of the heavy work under protest to get it out of the way, but not too interested in the flowers and all the fancy plants that there are. Too many latin names, too many plants to remember, too many situations need to be different. In short, I didn't know a*** from elbow from one plant to another. Gardening programmes left me even more in the dark and there wasn't a definitive book out there that would help. Along comes Titchmarsh, who sometimes comes ...  Read the complete review

Did you know plants were sexual beings? Well maybe I am just too innocent but when ever I’ve thought of sex and the garden I’ve always told myself (and hubby too) that the fences really aren’t high enough! Alan Titchmarsh however seems to manage to bring sex into his new TV show, How to be a Gardener, rather a lot. Now it has not escaped my thinking that this same man has written one or two rather raunchy novels I believe so maybe that is where he gets his inspiration. First though let me tell you just a little about Alan Titchmarsh, he grew up living beside Ilkley Moor and it seems to me he is one of the lucky people who ...  Read the complete review