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Alan Titchmarsh Column
Greenfingers…
The Alan Titchmarsh Column
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He’s a brilliant presenter, accomplished gardener, talented novelist, and all-round horticultural inspiration. is month, Alan Titchmarsh discusses the next generation of green-fi ngered gardeners.
You’ll fi nd me talking quite a bit about the new breed of gardener coming through. For me, it’s a natural evolution that presents to me two di erent things – fi rstly, the art of gardening is much more interesting and much cooler than it ever was in my day; and secondly, it seems as though I am becoming more and more aware of my own mortality!
Percy rower was the one who inspired me most when I was a kid. I watched him on Gardening Club on the box, and as the years have gone by, I have been lucky enough to work with a number of the horticultural greats. Christopher Lloyd was a friend,
Beth Cha o is a friend who
I really value and whose work I really admire.
A er a while you realise you have progressed from the student to the teacher, and I’ve always been very proud to be that person. Ultimately, I want to inspire everybody to get into the garden, because I think there are so many benefi ts.
When I am presenting, I never have a set section of society or type of person in mind. I guess, in a way, I am presenting to myself - I want anybody and everybody to start thinking about ge ing into the garden. We need to show people that it isn’t di cult or boring, that is it is exciting, and that most of it is just common sense.
And I do admit, the likes of James Swi , James Wong, Annemarie Powell, Katie Rushworth and Frances Tophill all have a knack of conversing to young audiences that I probably don’t have… and that’s great.
We have to keep evolving what we say and who we want to position it to, because as I have said before there are so many other distractions for young people these days.
I want to see our gardens and our outside spaces continue to fl ourish over the decades to come, despite the noise and appeal of doing other things elsewhere; and you know what, I’m sure they will.
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