Alan Titchmarsh's Gardening Club

Alan Titchmarsh's Gardening Club

Alan Titchmarsh welcomes us to the first episode of a whole new gardening programme Alan Titchmarsh's Gardening Club on Monday 4 March 2024 on ITV.

This 1 hour long programme is to run for 10 episodes on a Monday afternoon starting at 2 pm, an unusual time slot for a weekly gardening programme but will also be repeated on Sunday lunch time on ITV.


The new daytime gardening programme will appeal to all types of gardeners, with whatever size garden they have.

It will showcase new garden trends, visit innovative gardens throughout the UK, share gardening tips and cover indoor to allotment gardening as well as meet keen amateur gardeners showing us their own garden spaces.


Alan Titchmarsh's Gardening Club


Garden Club Experts
Alan will be joined by a team of gardening experts covering all fields and some familiar faces from Love Your Garden and Alan's Love Your Weekend Programme as well as up and coming new Gardeners.

David Domoney

David Domoney a familiar part of the team on Love Your Garden  as well as Love Your Weekend  and David will be sharing his gardening knowledge as well as how to attract birds to the garden and how not to attract garden pests like slugs.

David will also be answering questions in a 'Ask the Gardener' slot.


Camilla Bassett-Smith

Camilla Bassett-Smith is a Horticulturist who has appeared with Alan on Love Your Weekend and will be encouraging us all to grow our own vegetables as well as visiting other gardens to give us inspiration for our own with tips and advice, from herself and the Head Gardeners she meets.

Tayshan Hayden-Smith

Tayshan Hayden-Smith is well known for his community gardening and sustainable gardening and is Founder of Grow2Know.

Tayshan was a garden designer on Your Garden Made Perfect, as well as numerous gardening and presenting roles and in the programme he will be visiting community projects as well as sharing with us the health and wellbeing aspects of gardening.


Sarah Gerrard-Jones

Sarah Gerrard-Jones is a House Plant expert, RHS Chelsea Gold medal winner, YouTuber  and Author of The Plant Rescuer.

Sarah will be showing us how we can turn the inside of our homes into its very own houseplant oasis of colour.


Anna Greenland

Anna Greenland is an Organic Eco Gardener, Author, Blogger and Cook, whose organically grown fruit and vegetables are used by many top chefs.

Anna will be sharing her expert knowledge on how to garden organically and on a budget as well as taking some of the hard work out of growing your own with showing us how to create a no-dig plot.


Lucy Willcox

Lucy Willcox  is an award winning Garden Designer specialising in Contemporary Garden Design.

A change of career saw Lucy obtain a Diploma in Garden Design from Inchbald School of Design and she worked as a Garden Designer before opening her own Design Business Lucy Willcox Garden Design in 2007.


Garden Club Members
Alan also has his members who have been working on and filming their own gardens to show us their experiences of gardening.


Alex Smith started his gardening project last year and will be on the programme every week to show us exactly how much food an amateur gardener can produce.

He has a plot in his parents garden where he is living and he has made a plan of what he is growing and when to sow.

We will follow him through the whole process from wondering how many of each vegetable to grow to hopefully a good harvest!

For the programme they are using existing YouTube videos from Alex's Channel

Alex Smith   YouTube   Instagram  TikTok


Jason Williams

Jason Williams AKA 'The Cloud Gardener' is a Social Media Gardener, Award winning Garden Designer, Balcony and small space Gardener.

Jason turned his small balcony into a green oasis to benefit wildlife and his own Mental Health during the Covid-19 Pandemic.  He is an award winning designer of small space gardens and visits an Alley garden in his home town that inspired one of his designs.


Danni Gallacher

Danni Gallacher is a Organic Gardener, Permaculturist, Allotmenteer, Forager and Skateboarder.

Danni has an organic Allotment in Sheffield which she uses the no dig method, encourages wildlife, forages and has her own skate ramp on.  Danni has been foraging for over 20 years and is sharing her advice and experience on the programme.


Ramona Jones

Ramona Jones is an Author, Content Creator, Cottage Gardener.

She has had her current Somerset Garden for approximately 4 years and has turned it from an overgrown, bamboo filled garden into a garden with areas for Cottage Garden flowers, vegetables and an Orchard.


Ashley Edwards

Ashley Edwards is a Head Gardener at Horatio's Garden, Horticulturist, Horticultural Therapist

Ashley role at Horatio's Garden London & South East is to manage a team of Volunteers in the Charities fifth Garden, at the London Spinal Injury Centre in the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Stanmore.


Garden Club Plant-Fluencers
Each week a different viewer will share their garden and gardening tips with us as Plant-Fluencers!

These also seem to be from existing YouTube / TikTok videos.


Garden Club Horticultural Heroes
Each week a different Expert will answer 5 questions from the viewers in 'Gardening in Five'.


Alan Titchmarsh


Alan Titchmarsh will of course be fronting his programme from his own beautiful garden and giving his own vast gardening knowledge to the viewers.

As an ex presenter of Gardeners' World will this new innovative Daytime Gardening Programme give the BBC competition?

Beechgrove Gardens have gone through a re-vamp the last few seasons bringing in new and younger Gardeners to the Team and adding new features that have proved popular and some less popular ideas like the Beechgrowers.

Are the viewers happy already with Monty Don and his Team of familiar Gardeners or is it time for 74 year old Alan Titchmarsh to take Garden programmes on a whole new walk down the garden path and take the 'Best in Show' title?

No-one has mentioned pets, will there be any furry additions to the Team?


'Pour yourself a cuppa and get comfy'.


Garden Club Experts







Garden Club Members
Alex Smith  YouTube   Instagram  TikTok


Garden Club Plant-Fluencers
Beth Bird  from East Yorkshire

Martha Swales  from London

Niall McCauley Gardening Tips





Garden Club Horticultural Heroes - Gardening in 5
Fran Clifton Head Gardener Sir Harold Hillier Arboretum


Andy Lewis Head of Ornamentals & Fruit Garden The Newt

Darren Dickey Head Gardener  Trebah Garden



Emily Hazell Director of Horticulture & Curation Birmingham Botanic Gardens





Garden Club Special Guests
Chandrika Dalpat Project Manager  The Meanwhile Gardens
Hermione Byrt Community Gardener Volunteer

Andy 'Apples' Lewis Head of Ornamentals & Fruit Garden The Newt
Samuel Harris Head of indoor Gardening

Elaine Butler RBL  Armed Forces Community Garden
Squadron Leader Dave Kerrison No1 School of Technical Training
Lloyd Bagshaw Former Warrant Officer / Staff Sergeant Major
Laura Hosking  RAF Veteran Membership Engagement Officer RBL
Neil Marshall

Darren Dickey Head Gardener  Trebah Garden

Thomas Volunteer Coordinator
Katie Volunteer

Fran Clifton Head Gardener Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and Arboretum 

Yasmine & Gemma from Cloudy Alley M14 Moss side

Mathew Pottage Curator RHS Garden Wisley

Emily Hazell Director of Horticulture & Curation Birmingham Botanic Gardens
Bethan Collerton Senior Alpine & Woodland Horticulturist

Khan Odita Social Entrepreneur Urbanscape Community Garden 
Pauline Volunteer Gardener member of Goodgym
Lizzie Salter Community Engagement Worker

Susie Sandover Volunteer Garden Designer  Age UK Hammersmith & Fulham Centre
Emily cook Volunteering Manager
Julie, Janet & Petunia Visitors 

Geraint Reynolds  Chairman  Forgeside Rugby Club Community Gardens
Victoria Wade Garden Designer
Leighton Williams Player

Tom Clarke Head Gardener Exbury Gardens

Kevin Martin Head of Tree Collections  Kew Gardens

Charlotte former patient

Paul & Julia from Farnham
Hannah Lawn Specialist

Danny Clarke school garden with Grow2Know
Luca and Jas
Ellie Dowthwaite, Head and Louise Wilson, Deputy Head

Brie Langley Botanical Horticulturist  Kew Gardens


Garden Visits





Episode 1  4 March 2024

Presenters

Garden Club Members
Alex Smith

Garden Club Plant-Fluencers
Beth Bird  from East Yorkshire

Garden Club Horticultural Heroes - Gardening in 5
Fran Clifton Head Gardener Sir Harold Hillier Arboretum

Garden Club Special Guests
Chandrika Dalpat Project Manager  The Meanwhile Gardens
Hermione Byrt Community Gardener Volunteer

Andy 'Apples' Lewis Head of Ornamentals & Fruit Garden The Newt
Samuel Harris Head of indoor Gardening

Garden Club Members
Alex Smith

Garden Club Plant-Fluencers
Martha Swales  from London

Garden Club Horticultural Heroes - Gardening in 5
Mathew Pottage Head Gardener RHS Wisley

Garden Club Special Guests
Elaine Butler RBL  Armed Forces Community Garden
Squadron Leader Dave Kerrison No1 School of Technical Training
Lloyd Bagshaw Former Warrant Officer / Staff Sergeant Major
Laura Hosking  RAF Veteran Membership Engagement Officer RBL
Neil Marshall

Darren Dickey Head Gardener  Trebah Garden


Episode 3  18 March 2024


Garden Club Members
Alex Smith

Garden Club Plant-Fluencers

Garden Club Horticultural Heroes - Gardening in 5
Andy Lewis Head of Ornamentals & Fruit Garden The Newt

Garden Club Special Guests
Thomas Volunteer Coordinator
Katie Volunteer

Fran Clifton Head Gardener Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and Arboretum 



Garden Club Members
Alex Smith

Garden Club Plant-Fluencers

Garden Club Horticultural Heroes - Gardening in 5
Darren Dickey Head Gardener  Trebah Garden

Garden Club Special Guests
Yasmine & Gemma from Cloudy Alley M14 Moss side

Mathew Pottage Curator RHS Garden Wisley


Episode 5  08 April 2024

Garden Club Members
Alex Smith

Garden Club Horticultural Heroes - Gardening in 5

Garden Club Special Guests
Emily Hazell Director of Horticulture & Curation Birmingham Botanic Gardens
Bethan Collerton Senior Alpine & Woodland Horticulturist

Khan Odita Social Entrepreneur Urbanscape Community Garden 
Pauline Volunteer Gardener member of Goodgym
Lizzie Salter Community Engagement Worker


Episode 6  15 April 2024


Garden Club Members
Alex Smith

Garden Club Horticultural Heroes - Gardening in 5

Garden Club Special Guests
Susie Sandover Volunteer Garden Designer  Age UK Hammersmith & Fulham Centre
Emily cook Volunteering Manager
Julie, Janet & Petunia Visitors 


Episode 7  22 April 2024

Garden Club Members
Alex Smith

Garden Club Plant-Fluencers

Garden Club Horticultural Heroes - Gardening in 5
Emily Hazell Director of Horticulture & Curation Birmingham Botanic Gardens

Garden Club Special Guests
Geraint Reynolds  Chairman  Forgeside Rugby Club Community Gardens
Victoria Wade Garden Designer
Leighton Williams Player

Tom Clarke Head Gardener Exbury Gardens


Episode 8  29 April 2024

Garden Club Members
Alex Smith

Garden Club Plant-Fluencers
Beth Bird  from East Yorkshire

Garden Club Horticultural Heroes - Gardening in 5

Garden Club Special Guests
Kevin Martin Head of Tree Collections  Kew Gardens


Episode 9  6 May 2024

Garden Club Members
Alex Smith

Garden Club Plant-Fluencers

Garden Club Horticultural Heroes - Gardening in 5

Garden Club Special Guests
Charlotte former patient

Paul & Julia from Farnham
Hannah Lawn Specialist


Episode 10  13 May 2024

Garden Club Members
Alex Smith

Garden Club Plant-Fluencers

Garden Club Horticultural Heroes - Gardening in 5

Garden Club Special Guests
Danny Clarke school garden with Grow2Know
Luca and Jas
Ellie Dowthwaite, Head and Louise Wilson, Deputy Head

Paul & Julia from Farnham
Hannah & Andy Lawn Specialist

Brie Langley Botanical Horticulturist  Kew Gardens


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