‘if you emulate nature, you’re on to a winner’

He left school with one O-level but is now our best-loved gardening guru. As he launches his YouTube show, Alan Titchmarsh reveals the down-to-earth secret of his success

The gardener, author and YouTuber on the joy of growing his own fruit and veg

I take a walk down memory lane and compare our veg plot with my mum’s modest patch

This South West garden has gone from dark, shady and overgrown to lush and romantic

Take a peek at Stephen Matthews’ chirpy, happy place in Essex

For almost 30 years, Valerie Finnis was a distinguished and charismatic teacher at the Waterperry Horticultural school for Women, near Oxford, founded in 1932 by the fearsomely smocked and gaitered Be