Alan Titchmarsh: The gardener and broadcaster on Nelson Mandela, financial success and the...

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Gardening used to be what you did if you couldn't do anything else I became an apprentice gardener in 1964 and I used to say to people that I was in horticulture, as it sounded better. So it's been interesting to watch the situation change through the 1970s and 1980s, to a point in the late 1990s and early Noughties, when shows such as Ground Force were getting 12 million viewers, and gardening books outsold cookery books for the first time.










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