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On Love Your Garden episode 9 2017, Alan Titchmarsh and his team head to Nottingham to surprise the inspirational boxing coach Marcellus Baz, with two special garden transformations. First, the team visit Marcellus' gym, where they work to turn a dark alley into a productive kitchen garden, before heading to Marcellus' own home to transform his garden into a Moroccan-inspired outdoor space. Love Your Garden episode 9 2017 Alan Titchmarsh travels around the country seeking out some of Britain's loveliest domestic gardens. He will be focusing not on celebrated public gardens, but on the wonderful outdoor living spaces created by ordinary Britons. Alan looks at how these beautiful gardens - from cottage gardens to traditional rose gardens - have been created, and helps viewers understand how they can get a similar effect in their own spaces. He is helped along the way by a team of experts who will be passing on their own particular wisdom. Food expert Valentine Warner has tips

Alan Titchmarsh and his team in Love Your Garden episode 8 2017 transform an area of Blackpool Zoo for live-in keeper John Paul who resides there full-time, creating a private retreat for the zoo's dedicated keepers.  Alan and the team fill the space with animal and wildlife friendly ideas, and share tips on clever ways to create privacy without building walls and fences. Love Your Garden episode 8 2017 Alan Titchmarsh travels around the country seeking out some of Britain's loveliest domestic gardens. He will be focusing not on celebrated public gardens, but on the wonderful outdoor living spaces created by ordinary Britons. Alan looks at how these beautiful gardens - from cottage gardens to traditional rose gardens - have been created, and helps viewers understand how they can get a similar effect in their own spaces. He is helped along the way by a team of experts who will be passing on their own particular wisdom. Food expert Valentine Warner has tips for those who are hop

In Love Your Garden episode 7 2017, Alan Titchmarsh and his team head to Hythe to create a sensory outdoor space for a four-year-old girl with severely limited vision, who will one day go completely blind.  The team transform the family's current bland garden into a safe family haven where little Isabelle can learn about the outside world in a comfortable environment. Love Your Garden episode 7 2017 Alan Titchmarsh travels around the country seeking out some of Britain's loveliest domestic gardens. He will be focusing not on celebrated public gardens, but on the wonderful outdoor living spaces created by ordinary Britons. Alan looks at how these beautiful gardens - from cottage gardens to traditional rose gardens - have been created, and helps viewers understand how they can get a similar effect in their own spaces. He is helped along the way by a team of experts who will be passing on their own particular wisdom. Food expert Valentine Warner has tips for those who are hoping

In Love Your Garden episode 6 2017, Alan Titchmarsh and the team head to Southampton to turn a featureless suburban back garden into a super-stylish contemporary outdoor space. The garden is for the Jordan family who are coping with the loss of a devoted mother and wife. Shelly-Ann died of cancer in April 2016 aged just 39 leaving husband Tony and their two children Tyler (17) and Amelia (12). Shelly desperately wanted to create a garden for her children to enjoy with their friends and family but died before she could make this dream a reality. Alan, Katie, Frances and David – take on the challenge of creating a garden that will both appeal to teens and tweens, keep their mother’s memory alive and help the whole family through the still very raw grieving process. They pack the space with wonderful ideas and use gorgeous planting to make it one of the most striking gardens of the series. Love Your Garden episode 6 2017 Alan Titchmarsh travels around the country seeking out some of Brita

On Love Your Garden episode 5 2017, Alan and the team surprise a 93-year-old veteran from WW2. Jack King was a Japanese prisoner of war on the infamous Thailand Burma railway. He is now a widower and wants to revive the beautiful garden he shared with his wife Audrey. Jack is also a passionate painter who longs to access the studio he built himself at the end of his garden. Sadly this garden has become a no go area for Jack. The team work hard to create a beautiful garden full of happy memories, art and a stunning new studio that Jack is able to access easily. Love Your Garden episode 5 2017 Alan Titchmarsh travels around the country seeking out some of Britain's loveliest domestic gardens. He will be focusing not on celebrated public gardens, but on the wonderful outdoor living spaces created by ordinary Britons. Alan looks at how these beautiful gardens - from cottage gardens to traditional rose gardens - have been created, and helps viewers understand how they can get a similar

This week in Love Your Garden episode 4 2017, Alan and the team create a garden like no other they've done before.The team head to Shrewsbury in Shropshire to meet Air Ambulance heroine Gina Constable. The former nurse's dedication to this vital life-saving service is unprecedented. For over 21 years she has helped raise more than a quarter of a million pounds - a figure which works out at over 100 life-saving air ambulance missions. To this day, despite crippling arthritis, she remains one of the Services most dedicated fundraisers and will often take her mind off her painful joints by knitting charity soft toys - even through the night.Inspired by the wishes of her late husband Tony, who was equally dedicated to fundraising for the Air Ambulance, the Love Your Garden team build her a breathtaking Japanese garden. The team share the tricks to creating a little piece of Japan in your own back yard - from transforming a run-down summerhouse into an authentic Japanese Tea House,

In Love Your Garden episode 3 2017, the team head to Chandlers Ford in Hampshire to help the Richardson family, who are facing a very difficult future. Father of two Jason survives only by the means of a portable external machine which keeps his heart working and three weekly sessions of kidney dialysis. The whole family are now tied to their home and desperately need an outdoor space on their doorstep that can become an escape.   Love Your Garden episode 3 2017 Alan Titchmarsh travels around the country seeking out some of Britain's loveliest domestic gardens. He will be focusing not on celebrated public gardens, but on the wonderful outdoor living spaces created by ordinary Britons. Alan looks at how these beautiful gardens - from cottage gardens to traditional rose gardens - have been created, and helps viewers understand how they can get a similar effect in their own spaces. He is helped along the way by a team of experts who will be passing on their own particular wisdom. Food

This time in Love Your Garden episode 2 2017, Alan Titchmarsh and the team head to Manchester to turn a concrete patch of dismal cracked pavers and hard edges in to a beautiful classic cottage garden. The transformation is for Salford born identical twins Rita and Betty Mills. It was their friends and family from the Cathedral that got in touch with the programme. They felt that when the sisters moved to their new bungalow for health reasons – the one thing they really deserved and desperately needed was an outdoor space on their doorstep – to match their own outgoing and sunny personalities. Alan believes this was the worst gardens he’d ever seen in the series and therefore, couldn’t resist the challenge. He and the team share all the tips and tricks that will help you turn even the most modest of urban yards into a cottage style retreat. Love Your Garden episode 2 2017 Alan Titchmarsh travels around the country seeking out some of Britain's loveliest domestic gardens. He will be

In the first of this new series, Love Your Garden episode 1 2017, Alan Titchmarsh and the team head to Plymouth to create a show-stopping contemporary garden for an ex-marine and his young family.  Alan Titchmarsh travels around the country seeking out some of Britain's loveliest domestic gardens, focusing on the wonderful outdoor living spaces created by ordinary Britons. Love Your Garden episode 1 2017 Alan Titchmarsh travels around the country seeking out some of Britain's loveliest domestic gardens. He will be focusing not on celebrated public gardens, but on the wonderful outdoor living spaces created by ordinary Britons. Alan looks at how these beautiful gardens - from cottage gardens to traditional rose gardens - have been created, and helps viewers understand how they can get a similar effect in their own spaces. He is helped along the way by a team of experts who will be passing on their own particular wisdom. Food expert Valentine Warner has tips for those who are ho

Love Your Garden episode 6 2016 - When 39-year-old Durham dad Philip Hunter discovered he had terminal cancer, he got in touch with Alan Titchmarsh and his team to build a special garden for him, his wife Sam and two boys, Ethan and Josh to enjoy in his final years.  However, when tragedy strikes earlier than expected, Alan and his colleagues do their best to create the garden Philip would have wanted. By using some clever design, the team fills the modestly sized plot with elegant features and details, but will the family like the result? Love Your Garden episode 6 2016 Alan Titchmarsh travels around the country seeking out some of Britain's loveliest domestic gardens. He will be focusing not on celebrated public gardens, but on the wonderful outdoor living spaces created by ordinary Britons. Alan looks at how these beautiful gardens - from cottage gardens to traditional rose gardens - have been created, and helps viewers understand how they can get a similar effect in their own

In Love Your Garden episode 5 2016, Alan Titchmarsh and his team visit Eastleigh, near Southampton, to transform an uneven patch of lawn into a cruise ship-inspired pleasure garden complete with a patio shaped like the prow of a boat. The project is intended as a `thank-you' to paediatric nurse Rosie Mitchell, whose nominees claim she has gone above and beyond the call of duty for 30 years in support of her young patients. Love Your Garden episode 5 2016 Alan Titchmarsh travels around the country seeking out some of Britain's loveliest domestic gardens. He will be focusing not on celebrated public gardens, but on the wonderful outdoor living spaces created by ordinary Britons. Alan looks at how these beautiful gardens - from cottage gardens to traditional rose gardens - have been created, and helps viewers understand how they can get a similar effect in their own spaces. He is helped along the way by a team of experts who will be passing on their own particular wisdom. Food exp

In Love Your Garden episode 4 2016, Alan Titchmarsh and the team head to Bolton to surprise a 39-year-old RSPCA officer and turn her wasteland of a garden into a spectacular animal-friendly haven. Owner Caroline Hall suffered a near-fatal spinal stroke which turned her life upside down, and her once-beloved garden has become an inaccessible wilderness, but with a clever design and some top tips, the team create an area that Caroline is not only free to move around in, but one she absolutely falls in love with. Love Your Garden episode 4 2016 Alan Titchmarsh travels around the country seeking out some of Britain's loveliest domestic gardens. He will be focusing not on celebrated public gardens, but on the wonderful outdoor living spaces created by ordinary Britons. Alan looks at how these beautiful gardens - from cottage gardens to traditional rose gardens - have been created, and helps viewers understand how they can get a similar effect in their own spaces. He is helped along the

In Love Your Garden episode 3 2016, Alan and his team visit Canterbury to help Gurkha Hari Budha Magar, who lost the use of both his legs in Afghanistan in an IED incident. Though Hari thinks nothing of going out of his way to help others, his own garden is a challenge he has to yet to overcome, so the team transform his overlooked plot into a colourful private sanctuary, and there is a surprise appearance by Joanna Lumley. Love Your Garden episode 3 2016 Alan Titchmarsh travels around the country seeking out some of Britain's loveliest domestic gardens. He will be focusing not on celebrated public gardens, but on the wonderful outdoor living spaces created by ordinary Britons. Alan looks at how these beautiful gardens - from cottage gardens to traditional rose gardens - have been created, and helps viewers understand how they can get a similar effect in their own spaces. He is helped along the way by a team of experts who will be passing on their own particular wisdom. Food expert

In Love Your Garden episode 2 2016, Alan Titchmarsh and the team create a new garden for an eight-year-old girl in Nottingham, despite the worst weather they have ever experienced. Tilly Sawford was severely scalded in a freak accident six years ago and continues to require treatment to aid her recovery, leading to the staff at her local hospital recommending the family have a safe garden created for them, with a bold colour scheme and surprise areas for all of the children. Love Your Garden episode 2 2016 Alan Titchmarsh travels around the country seeking out some of Britain's loveliest domestic gardens. He will be focusing not on celebrated public gardens, but on the wonderful outdoor living spaces created by ordinary Britons. Alan looks at how these beautiful gardens - from cottage gardens to traditional rose gardens - have been created, and helps viewers understand how they can get a similar effect in their own spaces. He is helped along the way by a team of experts who will be

In Love Your Garden episode 1 2016, Alan Titchmarsh and the team head to Hull to makeover the garden of a 90-year-old Land Girl and Ballroom dancing devotee. Age and frailty have seen the twice-widowed great-grandmother lose the ability to tend her once beautiful front and back gardens – so they have become neglected sad no-go areas. After Alan surprises her at an over 80’s Tea Dance at the Darby and Joan, the team cleverly transform her front and back gardens into spaces she can safely garden again. They create two colourful and nostalgic havens full of thoughtful memories and even an outdoor ballroom where she enjoys a waltz with Alan. Love Your Garden episode 1 2016 Alan Titchmarsh travels around the country seeking out some of Britain's loveliest domestic gardens. He will be focusing not on celebrated public gardens, but on the wonderful outdoor living spaces created by ordinary Britons. Alan looks at how these beautiful gardens - from cottage gardens to traditional rose garden

Today in Love Your Garden episode 8 2015, Alan Titchmarsh and the team are in Dorset creating an exciting garden for a young family. His idea for the Drakes is to give them an outdoor space that reflects terminally ill dad Andrew's love of the great outdoors and his passion for working with wood. He opts for a garden with a frontier-land theme that Andrew, wife Rachel and their young son Lucas can enjoy, creating a prairie-inspired back yard of big scale rustic wood structures, agricultural motifs with craftsmanship and the spirit of adventure at its core. Love Your Garden episode 8 2015 Alan Titchmarsh travels around the country seeking out some of Britain's loveliest domestic gardens. He will be focusing not on celebrated public gardens, but on the wonderful outdoor living spaces created by ordinary Britons. Alan looks at how these beautiful gardens - from cottage gardens to traditional rose gardens - have been created, and helps viewers understand how they can get a similar

This time in Love Your Garden episode 7 2015, Alan Titchmarsh and his team come to the aid of nonagenarian Roberta and her 86-year-old best friend and carer Enid, who live together in a retirement bungalow in Wiveliscombe, Somerset. Originally from Liverpool, the two plucky pensioners have helped each other out countless times throughout the course of their friendship, which has lasted seven decades. However, they now find themselves trapped in their home by a treacherous slope in their garden, so Alan plans to set them free by designing a future-proofed garden in a vintage style. Love Your Garden episode 7 2015 Alan Titchmarsh travels around the country seeking out some of Britain's loveliest domestic gardens. He will be focusing not on celebrated public gardens, but on the wonderful outdoor living spaces created by ordinary Britons. Alan looks at how these beautiful gardens - from cottage gardens to traditional rose gardens - have been created, and helps viewers understand how th

In gardening programme Love Your Garden episode 6 2015, nurse Maggie Simkiss cares for end of life patients and treats their emotional well-being as well as their direct medical needs.  To say thank you for her hard work, Alan Titchmarsh and his team of green-fingered experts arrive at her Hull home and help transform the unkempt garden into a grown-up Mediterranean hideaway. Love Your Garden episode 6 2015 Alan Titchmarsh travels around the country seeking out some of Britain's loveliest domestic gardens. He will be focusing not on celebrated public gardens, but on the wonderful outdoor living spaces created by ordinary Britons. Alan looks at how these beautiful gardens - from cottage gardens to traditional rose gardens - have been created, and helps viewers understand how they can get a similar effect in their own spaces. He is helped along the way by a team of experts who will be passing on their own particular wisdom. Food expert Valentine Warner has tips for those who are hop

In gardening programme Love Your Garden episode 5 2015, Alan Titchmarsh and the team are in Hemel Hempstead, where they meet deaf couple Asif Iqbal and wife Sabina. The green-fingered experts attempt to turn a boring lawn and crumbling patio into a Bollywood dream garden with an outdoor kitchen for Asif, Sabina and their family. Love Your Garden episode 5 2015 Alan Titchmarsh travels around the country seeking out some of Britain's loveliest domestic gardens. He will be focusing not on celebrated public gardens, but on the wonderful outdoor living spaces created by ordinary Britons. Alan looks at how these beautiful gardens - from cottage gardens to traditional rose gardens - have been created, and helps viewers understand how they can get a similar effect in their own spaces. He is helped along the way by a team of experts who will be passing on their own particular wisdom. Food expert Valentine Warner has tips for those who are hoping to grow their own, wildlife expert Charlotte

In gardening programme Love Your Garden episode 4 2015, Alan Titchmarsh and the team head to Chessington to create a car-themed garden for hospital worker and automobile fan Alan Rendall. In July 2014, he managed to rescue his unconscious neighbour, Roy Whiteway, from his burning house, but was unable to save Dorothy, Roy's wife, as the fire was so intense. To recognise his bravery, Alan and the team surprise the whole Rendall family and turn their featureless plot into an automobile-inspired haven.   Love Your Garden episode 4 2015 Alan Titchmarsh travels around the country seeking out some of Britain's loveliest domestic gardens. He will be focusing not on celebrated public gardens, but on the wonderful outdoor living spaces created by ordinary Britons. Alan looks at how these beautiful gardens - from cottage gardens to traditional rose gardens - have been created, and helps viewers understand how they can get a similar effect in their own spaces. He is helped along the way b