Alan Titchmarsh
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Alan Fred Titchmarsh, , HonFSE (born 2 May 1949) is an English gardener, broadcaster, poet, and novelist.
After working as a professional gardener and a gardening journalist, he established himself as a media personality through appearances on gardening programmes.
He has developed a diverse writing and broadcasting career.
Personal life
Titchmarsh has been married to Alison since 1975 and they have two children, Polly (born 1979) and Camilla (born 1981).
In addition to his extensive television and writing work, Titchmarsh is also trustee of a charity, 'Gardens for Schools', and others, including 'Seeds for Africa'. Gardens for Schools helped fund gardens and green spaces in and around schools, while Seeds for Africa encourages sustainable vegetable gardening. It provides community groups with the tools, seeds and training they need to start their own vegetable gardens including providing water installation and preparing the land. Gardens for Schools has since been merged with the RHS Campaign for School Gardening. Away from horticulture, Titchmarsh has been involved with the Cowes inshore lifeboat, where he was patron until 2008, and with the National Maritime Museum, where he was a trustee until December 2008.
In 2004 Titchmarsh became the president of Perennial, officially known as the Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Society. Perennial is one of the UK's oldest charities and was created in 1839 to help gardeners and horticulturists facing times of difficulty.
In 2010 Titchmarsh became president of the plant conservation charity Plant Heritage (previously the NCCPG).
Titchmarsh has a wax statue at Madame Tussaud's.
In August 2014 Titchmarsh was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue. Titchmarsh is a monarchist.
Titchmarsh is an occasional practitioner of church bellringing. In 2011 he rang a quarter peal in Holybourne, Hampshire, to celebrate the marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.
In 2011 he participated in an Elm Tree Planting Ceremony to promote urban greening in London. He returned to the Marylebone and Fitzrovia area to plant a project's 1000th new tree in 2022.
Titchmarsh moved to his home, a grade II listed Georgian farmhouse in Hampshire, in 2002. He also has a coastal home, near Cowes on the Isle of Wight, where he spends about a third of the year.
Early career
Alan Fred Titchmarsh was born in Ilkley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, on May 2nd, 1949. He is the son of Bessie (née Hardisty), a textile mill worker, and Alan Fred Titchmarsh senior, a plumber. Titchmarsh left school at 15, with one O-level in Art, before graduating in 1968, aged 18 at Shipley Art and Technology Institute in Shipley, Yorkshire, to study for a City and Guilds degree in Horticulture.
Titchmarsh continued to study at Hertfordshire College of Agriculture and Horticulture for the National Certificate in Horticulture, before heading to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew to study for a Diploma in Horticulture. After graduating, he stayed on at Kew, first as a boss and then as a staff trainer. In 1974, he began to work in gardening journalism. His passion for English literature and writing led him to apply for a position as assistant editor of gardening books at Hamlyn Publishing, where he began writing gardening books of his own in 1976.