Love Your Garden

Love your Garden is the UK most popular Gardening Programme  with over 4 million viewers.

Love your Garden first aired in June 2011 but with a very different format in the first series to the garden makeover show we all know and love.

In series 1, Alan Titchmarsh visited themed gardens around the UK, with each episode featuring a different theme. 

Frances Tophill

Frances Tophill is a Horticulturist, Author and TV Gardening Presenter who was born in Deal, Kent and she has two sisters. 

Early attempts at gardening for Frances did not go well when her mother gave her a planter and it wasn't until much later that the idea of being a gardener was even dreamed of.

On leaving School Frances started a job at Marks & Spencer as a shop assistant. 

Frances Tophill was to spend 3 years working in the same shop before a complete change of career was to beckon.


An apprenticeship at The Salutation Gardens in Sandwich attracted the interest of Frances. 

At £2 less an hour she was not sure but after a trip to the gardens Frances knew the outdoor life of a gardener was for her. 

The Salutation is now better known as the past home of Dom and Steph from Gogglebox.

After 18 months at the garden Frances went to Edinburgh to study at Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) and obtained a B.sc degree in Horticulture and plantmanship.

Whilst at SRUC, Frances Tophill received a email from Love Your Garden telling students they were on the look out for presenters to join Alan Titchmarsh for the second series. 

After a trip to London to audition in front of the cameras, Frances was given the job along with David Domoney and Katie Rushworth, and Love Your Garden ran for 11 years and 13 series.

in 2021 Danny Clarke joined the Love Your Garden Team making his Debut in a Love Your Garden Themed special 2021 first aired 13 July 2021 Love Your Small Garden Special.

Frances Tophill moved to Devon where she volunteered and was later employed by Dawlish Garden Trust for gardeners with a learning disability.

Frances became a Gardeners' World presenter in 2016.

Frances has also been representing the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) for their School Gardener of the Year Competition. RHS School Gardeners of the Year Winners 2019

Frances has previously lived in Folkstone with her partner and rescue dog Rua and her garden was created and featured in Grow Your Own at Home with Alan Titchmarsh.

In August 2022 Frances became Temporary Head Gardener covering for maternity leave at The Sharpham Trust in Totnes Devon, and she still works there.

Frances bought her first house nearby that featured on Gardeners' World 2023 when she was presenting as well as her new allotment.

In 2026 Frances Tophill is to join another long running Garden Makeover programme Garden Rescue as a Garden Designer.

The show is 10 years old in 2026 and for the new run of Series 11 it will feature Frances Tophill, Diarmuid Gavin, Sue Kent and Joe Swift all competing against the existing Garden Rescue Team.

Charlie Dimmock is the Queen of garden makeover shows and her team of Chris Hull, Lee Burkhill and Flo Headlam combined with the new designers are going to make the ultimate Garden Makeover Team.

Frances Tophill also continues to be a popular presenter on Gardeners' World along with her dog Rua who regularly joins The Animal Co-stars of Gardeners' World.

Frances has the nickname Frinky.  Frances likes to keep her life very private so we may never know why!

Awards

2022

Gardeners' World Live

Best Show Garden & Platinum Award

Frances Tophill TV Programmes

2012 - 2023
Love Your Garden

2023

Series 13

First aired 19 April 2023

2022

Series 12

First aired 22 March 2022

Love Your Garden Episode 1 Beauty  Mary Stevenson from County Durham

Episode 2 Colour  Julie Richards  from Leicester 

Episode 3 Wildlife  Peter Hill from West Bromwich

Episode 4 Water  Russ, Alex, Zach & Lily Peacock from Southampton 

Episode 5 Wirral   Conrad, Pauline & Keiron Toohey from Heswall

Episode 6 Sudbury   Eileen & Roy Baldwin from Sudbury, Suffolk

Episode 8 Greenford Sybil from Greenford, West London

Series 11

First aired 07 September 2021

Episode 1  Mel & Theodore from near Taunton.  Dunkirk Memorial House

Episode 2  Steve, Eve, Billy and Emmie from Manchester. Sue and Georgia from Liverpool

Episode 3 Jo, Kerry, Flynn & Dogs from Leighton Buzzard. Dawn from Salford.

Episode 4  Carl, Elle, Theo, Ebony & Kenzo from Macclesfield Cheshire. Norma from Accrington.

Episode 5  Dale, Laura, Liam, Mathew & Louis from Barry Wales.  Krystina, Sienna, Max & Andre from Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.

Episode 6  Margaret Mary from Salford. Tim and Charlotte from Leicester.

Episode 7  Donna from Leicester. Jen from Huddersfield.

Episode 8  Shabnam and Amelia from Wakefield. Lesley-Anne from Swansea.

Series 10
First aired 25 February 2020

Episode 1 Harri & Erica Torr from Hull, East Yorkshire

Episode 2 Kath Ryan from Hall Green, Birmingham

Episode 3 Kirsty, Phoebe & Sam from Farncombe, Surrey

Episode 4 Age UK Day Centre in Croydon

Episode 5 Pip, John & Harrison from Middlesbrough

Episode 6 Richard & Lynn Warren Chippenham

Episode 7  James, Joanna & Laurie from Dudley

Episode 8  Venessa and Raia Sunshine from Waltham Abbey, Essex

Series 9
First aired 27 August 2019

Episode 1 Daniel, Jordan Lola & Jasper Bradbury from Hucknall near Nottingham

Episode 2 Rob & Margaret Isdale from Grantham, Lincolnshire

Episode 3 Jack & Margaret Parrott from Grassmoor, Derbyshire

Episode 4 Icolyn Smith MBE from Oxford

Episode 5 Rachel, Ped, Isla, George & Betsy from Folkstone

Episode 6 Lorraine Tilston-Brookes, Doris & Poppy from Swindon Wiltshire

Episode 7 Chris Garlick, Karran, Molly, Daniel & Mairwen Pontypool South Wales

Episode 8 Georgie Moseley Sheldon near Birmingham

Series 8
First aired 16 February 2018

Series 7
First aired 21 June 2017

Series 6

First aired on 28 June 2016

Series 5

First aired on 23 June 2015

Series 4

First aired on 24 June 2014

Series 3

First aired on 25 June 2013

2016 -  Present
Gardeners' World


2019
Eat, Grow, Love

2020
Gardeners' World 2020

2020

Grow Your Own At Home With Alan Titchmarsh

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6


2020
Love Tour Garden Themed Episodes 

 first aired 01 September 2020

Love Your English Country Garden

Love Your Family Garden

Love Your Exotic Garden

Love Your Wildlife Garden

Love Your Coastal Garden

Love Your City Garden

2021

Gardeners' World 2021

Episode 2: 26 March 2021

2021

Love Your Garden Themed Specials 2021

Love Your Small Garden Special

Love Your Cottage Garden Special

2022

Gardeners' World 2022

2023

Gardeners' World 2023

Gardeners' World Winter Specials 2023/24

2024

Gardeners' World Compilations 2024

Gardeners' World 2024

2025

Gardeners' World 2025

2025

Gardeners' World Winter Specials 2025/2026

2026

Gardeners' World Compilation 2026

Frances Tophill Books

2015
The First time Gardener: How to plan, plant & enjoy your garden

2017
Container Gardener: Inspirational ideas for pots & plants to transform any garden

2019

Container Gardeners' Handbook: Pots, Techniques, and Projects to Transform Any Space

Rachel Warne (Photographer)

2020
Rewild Your Garden: Create a Haven for Birds, Bees and Butterflies

2022

The Modern Gardener: A practical guide to gardening creatively, productively and sustainably

2024

Gardeners’ World: A Year in a Small Garden: Creating a Beautiful Garden in Any Space

2025

How to Grow a Garden: Find a Plant for Every Place

Charlotte Ager (Illustrator)

2025

A Wildflower Year: A Guide to Wildflowers, their Habitats & Histories

Francis Tophill   Instagram Facebook

Alan Titchmarsh

Alan Fred Titchmarsh was born in Ilkley, West Riding of Yorkshire on 2nd May 1949. 

His Father was a plumber and part time fireman, his Mother was a textile worker. 

His father was a typical Yorkshireman and they both instilled in him very strong family values.

Katie Rushworth

Katie Rushworth is a gardener who was born in Leeds on 9th May 1983. 

Katie Rushworth's parents were not gardeners but her grandparents were. In the tiny back garden of their terrace house.

They filled it with plants in containers and plants just about everywhere they could. 

David Domoney

David Domoney is a gardener who was born in 26th March 1963 in Devizes Wiltshire. 

David has 3 siblings and his father worked for BT as a Senior Executive and his mother worked as a Tupperware Area Sales Manager.

David attended Moseley School in Birmingham leaving at 16 to attend Warwickshire Agricultural College. 

Love your Garden Series 9 Episode 1 He's one of ours

Landscape Gardener Daniel Bradbury was diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's Disease 2 years ago at the age of just 30.

For the first episode of Love Your Garden series 9, Daniel was surprised at his home in Hucknall near Nottingham by Alan Titchmarsh in what turned out to be the most emotional Love your Garden episode ever shown.

Love Your Garden Series 9 Episode 2 The Secret Garden

In this episode of Love Your Garden Series 9 we meet Rob and Margaret Isdale from Grantham, Lincolnshire who as well as bringing up their own family, have fostered over 150 children during the last 42 years.

Rob and Margaret now in their 70s started fostering in 1977, they have fostered children, babies and mothers but now mostly have babies, often newborns awaiting adoption.

Love Your Garden Series 9 Episode 3 The Humble War Hero

This week on Love Your Garden Series 9, the team are in Grassmoor in the Derbyshire Dales to surprise an extraordinary Hero.

Alan Titchmarsh first surprises Margaret on the doorstep and then he surprises Jack who is still in bed.

Love Your Garden Series 9 Episode 4 Ma to all she Feeds

This week Love your Garden Series 9, Alan Titchmarsh is in Oxford at the Asian Cultural Centre where 2 times a week they have a community Soup kitchen.

For nearly 30 years, 88 year old Icolyn Smith MBE has been feeding those in need.  

Alan surprises her whilst peeling spuds with her son Gary for tomorrows lunch. 

Love Your Garden Series 9 Episode 5 A garden for Isla

This week episode of Love Your Garden Series 9,  Alan Titchmarsh is in Folkstone Kent to see mum Rachel's extraordinary family. He surprises Rachel returning from the school run with her children Isla 5 and Betsy 2.

Rachel is shocked to see Alan and cant believe he is there to see her. Also in the household is Husband Ped and 11 year old George. 

Love Your Garden Series 9 Episode 6 A Dog's Paradise

This week in Love Your Garden Series 9 Episode 6,  Alan Titchmarsh is in Swindon, Wiltshire to surprise Veteran Lorraine Tilston-Brookes and her special dogs Doris and Poppy. 

A shocked Lorraine opened the door and Alan was warmly greet by Lorraine and her dogs. 

Love Your Garden Series 9 Episode 7 A Healing Family Garden

In Love Your Garden Series 9 episode 7, Alan Titchmarsh is in Pontypool South Wales to surprise a family. 

Mum Karran Garlick is not in but as Alan rings the doorbell he is hoping Dad Chris Garlick and the children are in.

The door is opened by 6 year old Mairwen, who led Alan to meet and surprise her Dad Chris. 

Love Your Garden Series 9 Episode 8 Harry's Mum

In this week's episode of Love Your Garden, Series 9  Alan Titchmarsh is in Sheldon near Birmingham to surprise Georgie Moseley.

Georgie is founder of the Cancer Support Charity Help Harry Help Others (HHHO) named after her late son.

Alan arrives at the Charity's  Drop in Centre to surprise hardworking mum Georgie who has dedicated her life to helping others at the centre she started.

Carol Klein

Carol Klein was born in Walkden, Lancashire on 24th June 1945.

She got her early love of gardening from her grandfather who had an allotment and from her mother.

Carol has 2 brothers and her father had a TV shop in Walkden.

Early memories include carrying around buckets of mud to bring into the house to make her own kitchen garden.

Ann-Marie Powell

Ann-Marie Powell is a garden designer, gardening presenter, author and journalist from Hampshire, who was born on 7th August 1971.

Ann-Marie Powell is married with two children and lived in Petersfield in Hampshire. 

Real Gardens

Real Gardens was a gardening TV show that was on our  television screens on Channel 4 from 1998 - 2000 and ran for 3 series. 

It was to be a different sort of garden makeover show than the popular Ground Force that had appeared on our screens the previous year.

Real Gardens: Episode 1

Ann-Marie Powell - Stockport, Mike & Alison, back garden

In the outskirts of Stockport lives Mike Woodall a TV Engineer in a 3 bed semi, bought a year ago. 

With plans to redesign both the interior and garden over the summer.

 His fiancée Alison Buckley a Chef, who will move in after they are married next year both have lots of work to do in their 125ft overgrown garden.

Real Gardens: Episode 2

Ann-Marie Powell - Harrow London, Lisa Dominic Sophia & Grace, Children's Garden

Lisa Jacobson bought her terraced house in Harrow, from her mother 2 years ago. She lives there with her husband Dominic and daughters Sophia and baby Grace. 

Sophia loves being out in the garden and helping her mum to weed. Lisa after being pregnant last summer has yet to start work on the small, narrow back garden.

Real Gardens Episode 3

In this weeks episode of Real Gardens episode 3, Ann-Marie Powell is in Stockport, to visit Mike & Alison.

Returning to Mike & Alison's back garden from Episode 1 where the couple are not only doing a garden makeover but the house as well as they are due to move in after their Spring Wedding.

In Episode 1 Ann-Marie Powell played lumberjack and cleared the trees blocking the lovely views.

The couple have been busy clearing the bottom of the garden, they are now ready to start the vegetable beds

Real Gardens Episode 4

In this weeks Real Gardens episode 5 Ann-Marie Powell is in Harrow London, to visit Lisa, Dominic Sophia & Grace.

We return to Lisa Jacobson small back garden from Episode 2. Lisa has a young family and struggles to make time for the garden. 

She tries to do things in the garden with the Sophia her eldest daughter or when the children are playing safely in the garden. She wants a bright fun garden for the children.

Real Gardens Episode 5

In this weeks Real Gardens episode 5 Ann-Marie Powell is in Stockport, to visit Mike & Alison.

With the UK having the wettest April on record we return to Mike & Alison back garden from Episode 1 & Episode 3. 

The engaged, young couple are not only transforming their house but also their back garden for when they move in, after their wedding next year.

Real Gardens Episode 6

In this weeks Real Gardens episode 6 Ann-Marie Powell  is in Harrow London, to visit Lisa Dominic Sophia & Grace.

Lisa Jacobson from Episode 2 and Episode 4 has been busy in her Harrow small back garden making a safe child friendly garden for her 2 young children.

In the last Episode Ann-Marie Powell helped Lisa move and customise a unique style shed playhouse! 

Real Gardens Episode 7

In this weeks Real Gardens episode 7 Monty Don is in Guernsey, to visit Liz & Rod, in their garden with a lake view.

Liz Collenette lives on the island of Guernsey which is 80 miles south of Dorset and has a wonderful climate.

Liz & Rod moved to Vale Pond House, 20 years ago and the garden had been neglected. 20 years on it is looking very different. 

Real Gardens Episode 8

In this weeks Real Gardens episode 8 Carol Klein is in Devon. to visit Adrian & Debbie and look at their hanging baskets'

Adrian & Debbie Taylor sloped Dartmoor garden we last visited in Episode 6 when the orchard was planted. 

They love entertaining on their large deck but Debbie wants the garden to have more WOW factor and would like to open her garden to the public.

Real Gardens Episode 9

In Real Gardens episode 9, Ann-Marie Powell is in Harrow, to visit Lisa, Dominic, Sophia & Grace.

Its now June, when we return for the final time to Lisa Jacobson small Harrow back garden which featured in Episode 2, Episode 4 and Episode 6.

Real Gardens Episode 10

In this weeks Real Gardens episode 10 Monty Don is in Guernsey, to visit Liz & Rod, in their Garden with a lake view.

Liz Collenette has adapted working in her Guernsey Lake side garden around her back problems of 12 years. 

She no longer does any hard manual digging but relies on a 4 inch trowel to keep her amazing garden weed free.

Real Gardens Episode 11

In this weeks Real Gardens episode 11 Monty Don is in Huddersfield, to visit Adam & Katie & family.

Adam Waterman met Katie a Solicitor while working at Huddersfield University. That was 5 years ago, they are now married with 4 young children, Poppy-Anna, Harmony, Zack and Tarais. 

Real Gardens Episode 12

In this weeks Real Gardens episode 12, Carol Klein is in Devon at Adrian and Debbie's garden.

Debbie and Adrian Taylor sloped garden in Devon has amazing views of Dartmoor from their decked terrace. 

The busy police officers and parents to baby Emily moved to the bungalow 3 years ago.