Alan Titchmarsh

Alan Titchmarsh CBE, DL, VMH has been President of the National Garden Scheme since 2025. He is a gardener, writer, novelist, poet, concert presenter and broadcaster best known for programmes such as Ground Force, Gardeners’ World, Love Your Garden and The Chelsea Flower Show. He has also presented the BBC Proms and hosts the Saturday afternoon show on Classic FM. His own chat show The Alan Titchmarsh Show ran for eight years on ITV and he currently presents Love Your Weekend on Sunday mornings and Alan Titchmarsh’s Gardening Club. Alan has written more than fifty gardening books, three volumes of autobiography, several books on royalty including The Queen’s Houses and twelve novels, ten of which have made the Sunday Times Best-seller list. His latest books are Chatsworth: The Gardens and the People Who Made Them and The Gardener’s Almanac. Alan was made MBE in the Millennium New Year Honours List and CBE in the New Year Honours list 2025. He is a retired Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire and was Chancellor of the University of Winchester from 2016-2021. From 2008-9 he was High Sheriff of the Isle of Wight. In 2004 he was awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour, one of the Royal Horticultural Society’s two most prestigious awards.