Love your Garden

On Friday I watched the first of Alan Titchmarsh's series on ITV1 "Love your garden".

This first programme was on the traditional British garden. The garden we were shown was "a little larger than average size" but no mention what average size was! It looked bigger than mine (and I am twice average size for my area).

I am presuming he will do a programme on cottage gardens, and perhaps one on edible gardens. But large gardens don't have the problem with shade that I, and so many others, have.

If we want to grow ferns and hostas, fine, but if we want vegetables and cottage garden plants then we have problems. At least my garden is big enough for a vegetable plot in the middle and enough space round that for some flowers.