Chichester and Arundel Lifestyle Mar - Apr 2020
Spring has awakened and our magazine is alive with a bountiful bouquet of features - from interviews with famous faces, delicious Easter recipes, travel to Santa Barbara, UK staycations, a bathroom and tile guide plus advice on choosing the right school.
Spring has awakened and our magazine is alive with a bountiful bouquet of features - from interviews with famous faces, delicious Easter recipes, travel to Santa Barbara, UK staycations, a bathroom and tile guide plus advice on choosing the right school.
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What about going into where the<br />
Queen’s perfumer was working?<br />
That was wonderful! I use the aftershave<br />
now! I was terrified of course, when I<br />
arrived there.<br />
Alan will be at BBC Gardeners’<br />
World Live on Saturday 20th<br />
June <strong>2020</strong><br />
You cannot hide your emotions can<br />
you?<br />
No, I’m not very good at that! It was a joy<br />
though.<br />
Of the gardens that you’ve visited, do<br />
you have a special one? Or do you find<br />
that different gardens affect different<br />
moods, a bit like music?<br />
They do. There are aspects of every<br />
garden where you think ‘Oh I like that’, or<br />
‘I wish I had that’. I love Chatsworth, I’ve<br />
always loved Chatsworth, it’s a special<br />
place. The Prince of Wales’ garden at<br />
Highgrove. Sissinghurst is another one.<br />
Gardens that reflect the soul of their<br />
makers are really special.<br />
You are attending Highgrove again<br />
aren’t you? For Talking Gardens. Are<br />
you excited about that, as you go there<br />
quite regularly don’t you?<br />
I seem to go there every year. I’m a<br />
regular! I will be discussing the way we<br />
look at our gardens <strong>and</strong> the way they can<br />
help us <strong>and</strong> we can help them. It’s not<br />
just analytical, it’s getting to grips with<br />
a garden <strong>and</strong> what a garden can offer. I<br />
get so dispirited when I see gardens laid<br />
to paving blocks. I know that cars are<br />
precious, but you don’t have to pave the<br />
whole thing. There are all kinds of things<br />
you can do to make room for nature.<br />
When we spoke last time, you talked<br />
about your poetry with Debbie<br />
Wiseman from Classic FM.<br />
Yes, the book is coming out! Well I’ve<br />
written poetry for years before that<br />
but mainly for Christmas. But Debbie<br />
suggested I write something about<br />
plants, so we did The Glorious Garden<br />
which happened to go to No.1 in the<br />
classical charts - not that I like to boast!<br />
So that’s what got me going on writing<br />
poetry other than just for Christmas.<br />
So yes, I have put all these poems plus<br />
a load of new ones into a book called<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>igolds, Myrtle <strong>and</strong> Moles.<br />
Do you think you have any more<br />
poems up your sleeve?<br />
Well I really enjoy writing them, so we’ll<br />
see how this one goes down. I might do<br />
another one!<br />
Will we be seeing any more of ‘Love<br />
Your Garden’?<br />
We’ve got four episodes that will be<br />
coming out in the Spring, <strong>and</strong> we will<br />
start filming more in <strong>Apr</strong>il. We filmed half<br />
the series last year in September <strong>and</strong><br />
the other half will be done in Spring as<br />
they split the recordings, <strong>and</strong> they have<br />
commissioned another two series which<br />
is very nice!<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>igolds, Myrtle <strong>and</strong> Moles by Alan<br />
Titchmarsh is published by Hodder<br />
& Stoughton<br />
Below, from left: Highgrove, Chatsworth<br />
<strong>and</strong> Sissinghurst<br />
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