Love Your Garden and have a fantasy with Alan Titchmarsh
, by Geoff Hodge
Alan Titchmarsh presents Love Your Garden on ITV1 on Friday evenings at 8pm
This week’s episode of Love Your Garden (8th July), presented by Alan Titchmarsh on ITV1 on Friday at 8pm is a bit of a fantasy – no, really!
If you want your garden to be a magical place full of ideas and creativity, a place where your imagination runs wild, then the fantasy garden is for you! Alan goes to The Magic Garden in Bradmore, Wolverhampton, which is a place full of grottos, sculptures, follies and artistic design.
Now this episode should also be worth watching for those people with small gardens, as this one measures just 22.5 × 6.3m (75 × 21ft). Alan will be looking at making a grotto, choosing obelisks and ornaments and planting magic or crazy, mad-looking plants, such as eucomis – the pineapple lily.
Alan will also be looking at giving the garden a strong evergreen background, to ensure it has year-round structure and interest – particularly important in small gardens.
The Magic Garden opens on certain days of the year for the National Garden Scheme (NGS), and is open this Saturday, 9th July. So, if you want to see the garden in the flesh, find out the full details on the NGS website or find the details in the Scheme’s Yellow Book.
If you watch the programme or go to see the garden yourself during the open day on 9 July, let us know what you think.
Gardener of the Year
If you think your garden is great, enter the Garden News Gardener of the Year competition. You can download the application form here
As the judge of the competition, if your garden is shortlisted you’ll get a visit from me. It may not be the same as having Alan meet you and wander around your garden – but it could be a close second!
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Tina
(314 days ago)
I was very interested about the living roof of last weeks prog, and where to get the particular materials Alan used. I have a 6×8ft metal shed and thought maybe it would do as it didnt look weighty. Can you help and advise please??
Geoff Hodge (author)
(314 days ago)
Tina
Alan used the Wallbarn mixed sedum modular green roof system, available from the Wallbarn website – http://wallbarn.com/green-roof-systems.htm
Or you could try Enviromat from Q Lawns – http://www.enviromat.co.uk
Hope that helps.
clare
(312 days ago)
I loved the look of the architectural salvage yard featured in the programme, can you tell me where it was please?
Geoff Hodge (author)
(312 days ago)
Clare
Great wasn’t it. Sadly, we don’t know where it is. Does anyone else know where it is?
pauline mcdonald
(308 days ago)
Dont know if I put my last queston in the right place so here goes again. Any idea where Louise from Whitehouse Cottage gets her pebbles from for the mosaic tiles as they all seemed graded the same size. Hope you can help.
Geoff Hodge (author)
(308 days ago)
Pauline
Here’s my reply to your previous comment:
Go to a builders’ merchant or a garden centre with a hard landscaping department. You’ll find bags of various types of aggregates that will be suitable, including different colours.
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