It comes as Alan says he is still considering the “planting scheme” in his garden, which he says currently has a Mediterranean feel to it. Alan admits that when looking at a new garden, it can be easy to make smaller “tweaks” to a garden instead of making big changes.
Although the star admits it can sometimes be “good for us all” to accept that you need to do some bigger work in your plot.
He continued: “It’s all too easy, as a gardener schooled in the vital attributes of patience, to value the slowly developing scene in front of one and to resist dramatic changes preferring, instead to do a little tweak here, and adjustment to the planting scheme there. But every now and then it does us good to make a more dramatic change.”
Alan joked that he wasn’t suggesting his readers go and move house, but consider working on the parts of their garden that, “in their heart of hearts” they know they “turn a blind eye to”. While these parts may no longer “give you joy,” Alan admits it’s easier to “turn a blind eye” and procrastinate.
The former Gardeners’ World presenter has previously described his plot as being like a “classic English cottage garden” with an abundance of “nooks and crannies and beds and borders”. Although he described the woodland surrounding the property as being “like a jungle”.
Writing in a previous edition of BBC Gardeners’ World magazine, Alan said: “Having just taken on an acre of woodland on acid soil, I have the daunting task of rejuvenating a plantation that was established some 50 years ago and which, for perhaps the last 10 years, has ‘got away’.
“Lovely express that: the implication that the plants have yielded to no one in their ability to romp ever upwards to the light, elbowing weaker specimens out of the way. The result? An impenetrable thicket.”
Alan however admitted he was “excited” to take on the “once-attractive woodland garden”. As well as the trees, it has an artificial stream bed and a pond “half-filled with water, leaves and that rampant coloniser of damp earth”.
The TV presenter will return to screens from 9.30am today on ITV One with Alan Titchmarsh’s Love Your Weekend. He will be joined by actor Neil Stuke and actress and singer Marisha Wallace, while florist Jonathan Moseley will be celebrating the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
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