Alan Titchmarsh

ALAN TITCHMARSH

Alan Titchmarsh will be at BBC Gardeners' World Live on Wednesday 16 June 2010. You can reserve seats to see him live in the Gardeners' World Magazine Theatre where you'll be able to sit back and listen to him talk about his passion, gardening. Seats in Alan Titchmarsh sessions are proving extremely popular, so please book early to avoid disappointment.

Gardeners' World Magazine Theatre:
Weds 16 June, 10am; 11:30am ; 1pm and 4:15pm
Seats cost £3 (Show entrance also required)

Alan will also be giving live demonstrations at A Taste Of Greenacre throughout the day. This is a real opportunity to get up close and personal with the horticultural legend himself. Timetables will be available soon.

Alan Titchmarsh Biography

Alan Titchmarsh has twice been named 'Gardening Writer of the Year' and for four successive years was voted 'Television Personality of the Year' by the Garden Writers' Guild. In 2004 he received their Lifetime Achievement Award. He writes regularly in BBC Gardeners' World Magazine.

Alan has appeared on radio and television both as a gardening expert and as an interviewer and presenter, fronting such programmes as Points of View, Pebble Mill, Songs of Praise, Titchmarsh's Travels, The BBC Proms and Ask the Family, and since 1983 has presented the BBC's annual coverage of The RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

For seven years Alan was the main presenter of BBC2's Gardeners' World, which came from his own garden - Barleywood in Hampshire - and took gardening on to BBC1 with the hugely popular Ground Force. During the course of the series, Alan designed over 60 gardens, including one for Nelson Mandela. These programmes were followed by two series of How to be a Gardener, and by The Royal Gardeners, which traced the influence of the kings and queens of England on gardening styles from the Norman Conquest to the present day. In 2004 Alan presented British Isles - A Natural History - a landmark television series for BBC 1, in 2005 he was seen as the presenter of 20th Century Roadshow, about 20th century collectables, and heard as the voice of Gordon the Garden Gnome in a cartoon series for children's BBC.

He was appointed MBE in the 2000 New Year Honours list, for services to horticulture and broadcasting, and a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Hampshire in 2001. In 2004 he was awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's highest accolade - the Victoria Medal of Honour - for outstanding services to horticulture.