Gardeners' Heaven

by Alan Titchmarsh With rising birdseed prices, you may wonder about the best way of feeding feathery garden visitors without breaking the bank. For a start, a lot of kitchen scraps could go out for the birds. They’ll enjoy stale bread, biscuits, cake and pastry, but what’s really worthwhile in winter is fat, so save [...]

by Alan Titchmarsh When you’ve encouraged birds, bees and butterflies into your garden to entertain you in summer, don’t abandon them in winter. Many creatures who have been displaced from the countryside by a lack of wild facilities have come to see gardens as their new habitat, so you can’t let them down now. A [...]

by Alan Titchmarsh Autumn sees a good many householders sighing with exasperation at the prospect of six weeks of blocked gutters, slithery paving and garden paths awash with fallen leaves. No sooner have you cleared one instalment when the wind blows another load down, so you have to do it all over again. Harrumph! But [...]

by Alan Titchmarsh If you’ve ever wanted to do something that ‘makes a difference’, here’s your chance. By taking part in a huge on-line survey of butterflies, you’ll be helping scientists to take the pulse of nature right across the country. The Big Butterfly Count is a citizen science project that relies on information send [...]

by Alan Titchmarsh To people who don’t have one, a pond sounds like the antidote to gardening. Well, they reason, a pond doesn’t need mowing, watering or digging. However ponds do still need some attention because every summer there’s the problem of weeds. Take blanket weed, for example. It forms strands of green filaments just [...]

Alan Titchmarsh is set to bring his unique horticultural skills to ITV1 for the first time – in a new peak time gardening series entitled Love Your Garden. The nation’s favourite gardener will  travel the country with a team of esteemed experts to find some of Britain’s most beautiful domestic gardens and show viewers how [...]

Next time you’re out in the garden, don’t forget your camera.  Enjoying it’s third successful year, the awards recognise the talents of photographers in the UK, while at the same time highlighting the great wealth and diversity of British natural history. The awards also aim to encourage discovery, exploration, conservation and enjoyment of our natural [...]

by Alan Titchmarsh As the days grow longer and brighter and temperatures start to rise, garden wildlife instinctively starts preparing for spring and all that entails. Hedgehogs emerge from their winter hibernation any time in March or early April depending on temperatures. From now on birds begin nesting and gathering their resources for egg laying [...]