Love Your Garden with Alan Titchmarsh

Alan and the team head to Hull to makeover the garden of a 90-year-old Land Girl and Ballroom dancing devotee.

Alan Titchmarsh and the team are in Nottingham to create a new garden for an exceptional 8-year-old Tilly Sawford.Six years ago Tilly was so severely scalded in a freak domestic accident that she has spent the time since then in and out of hospital. Her scarred skin doesn't grow like regular skin which has lead to huge mobility challenges as her body grows. Nevertheless, despite the pain and disfigurement of her body, Tilly has remained a sunny, inspirational little girl. The whole family are immensely proud of her. Tilly's two brothers and two sisters all muck in to help with her care and mum Emma and dad Kyle don't know how she remains so upbeat.

This week Alan and the team head to Canterbury to meet an outstanding soldier Gurkha Hari Budha Magar (36) and his young family.Despite tragically losing both his legs in the Afghanistan war in an IUD incident, Hari remains focused on helping others. Most recently, the selfless hero made the journey to Cumbria to help pensioners whose homes were hit by this year's terrible floods.Although he thinks nothing of going out of his way for others, his own garden has remained a challenge he can't manage. So his friends and colleagues asked Alan and the team to help. With Hari's Nepalese homeland in mind, they transform his awkward, overlooked corner plot into a colourful private sanctuary for the whole family. So popular is this young Gurkha even Joanna Lumley pops up to wish him well.

Alan and the team head to Bolton to surprise 39-year-old RSPCA officer Caroline Hall, and turn her wasteland of a garden into something she will love to spend time in. This is the longest, thinnest plot they have ever tackled, and the idea is to transform it into a spectacular animal-friendly haven. Tragically, this outdoors girl and life-long animal lover was left completely paralysed from her neck down following a near fatal spinal stroke at the age of just 33, resulting in her once beloved garden becoming an overgrown and inaccessible wilderness. But with some clever design, and a few top tips, Alan and the team turn it into a garden that Caroline is not only free to move around in, but one she absolutely falls in love with as well.

Gardening guru Alan Titchmarsh and his team of experts head to Eastleigh near Southampton to transform an uninviting patch of uneven lawn into a cruise ship-inspired pleasure garden, complete with a patio shaped like the prow of a boat. They do this as a thank you to extraordinary nurse Rosie Mitchell and her hard-working family. Rosie has been a paediatric nurse for over 30 years, and has consistently gone above and beyond the regular duties of a carer. The grandmother's unique empathy and support for her young patients and their families in the most difficult of circumstances have made a difference to thousands. Not satisfied with that as a full time job, she has also set up a charity that has raised over 1.5 million pounds for the paediatric intensive care unit in Southampton. The money has purchased ambulances, incubators and has saved many lives.

The garden Makeover team, headed by gardening guru Alan Titichmarsh are in Durham this week to create a show-stopping final garden of the series for a family in need.When 39-year-old local lad Philip Hunter discovered he had a terminal cancer he got in touch to ask the team to build a special garden for him, his wife Sam and two boys, Ethan (14) and Josh (9) to enjoy in his final years.His eldest son and keen amateur naturalist Ethan is profoundly deaf so Philip was especially keen for their garden to be a place where he could safely pursue his specific interests – namely wildlife.Sadly, much sooner than was expected, Philip died in January this year – leaving his whole family distraught. Understanding how important the garden was to Philip, Alan and the team decided to go ahead and create the garden he would have wanted for them all. The team get super-creative this week and by using some clever design, fill the modestly sized plot with breathe-taking features and wonderful details which the family love.

In the first of this new series, Alan Titchmarsh and the team head to Plymouth to create a show-stopping contemporary garden for an outstanding ex-Marine, Mark Ormrod, 36, and his young family. Despite tragically losing both his legs and an arm in Afghanistan in an IED incident, Mark made a remarkable recovery and has become an inspiration to injured veterans everywhere.

This time Alan Titchmarsh and the team head to Manchester to turn a concrete patch of dismal cracked pavers and hard edges in to a beautiful classic cottage garden. The transformation is for Salford born identical twins Rita and Betty Mills (87).

Alan Titchmarsh and the team head to Chandlers Ford near Eastleigh in Hampshire this week to turn a neglected suburban back garden into a woodland-style retreat complete with a rustic sunken outdoor living room.The garden is for the Richardson family who are facing a very difficult future. After several very challenging years, father of two, Jason has been taken off the heart and kidney transplant list and survives only by the means of a heavy portable external machine which keeps his heart working and three weekly sessions of kidney dialysis. This means the whole family are now tied very much to their home and desperately need an outdoor space on their doorstep that can become an escape.

This week Alan and the team create a garden like no other they've done before.The team head to Shrewsbury in Shropshire to meet Air Ambulance heroine Gina Constable. The former nurse's dedication to this vital life-saving service is unprecedented. For over 21 years she has helped raise more than a quarter of a million pounds - a figure which works out at over 100 life-saving air ambulance missions.

Alan and the team surprise a 93-year-old veteran from WW2. Jack King was a Japanese prisoner of war on the infamous Thailand Burma railway. He is now a widower and wants to revive the beautiful garden he shared with his wife Audrey. Jack is also a passionate painter who longs to access the studio he built himself at the end of his garden. Sadly this garden has become a no go area for Jack. The team work hard to create a beautiful garden full of happy memories, art and a stunning new studio that Jack is able to access easily.

Alan Titchmarsh and his team transform a garden in Southampton into a super-stylish contemporary outdoor space for the Jordan family, who are still coming to terms with the loss of devoted mother and wife, Shelly-Ann. Alan and the team take on the challenge of creating a garden that will suit the whole family, and also keep Shelly-Ann's memory alive.

Alan and the Love Your Garden Team head to Hythe to create a sensory garden for an inspirational little girl who has severely limited vision and, who will one day go completely blind.

Such is the dedication of 28-year-old inspirational zookeeper John Paul Houston, he chooses not only to work but also live full time at Blackpool Zoo. When he's not raising money for wildlife preservation, the committed conservationist's extraordinary hand-rearing miracles have helped make Blackpool Zoo one of the top centres for ornithological study and bird conservation. Alan meets John Paul in the penguin enclosure and takes on the challenge of transforming an uninspiring scruffy piece of lawn, next to and overlooking the public car park. With a clever design, he turns it into a private retreat for John Paul to share with all the other dedicated keepers at the zoo. Alan and the team fill it with animal- and wildlife-friendly ideas and share their tips on clever ways to create privacy without building walls and fences.

Alan and the Team head to Nottingham this week to surprise Inspirational boxing coach Marcellus Baz (41) with not one, but two garden transformations. First, the team visit Marcellus' gym, where they work to turn a dark alley into a productive kitchen garden, before heading to Marcellus' own home to transform his garden into a Moroccan-inspired outdoor space.

This week, Alan heads to Fareham to surprise 90-year-old Betty Hicks, a fearless life-long volunteer and fundraiser. Betty's garden is a green-free concrete box with so many trip hazards that it's totally off-limits to Betty. The team set about transforming it into a safe and sensory haven for her.

Alan Titchmarsh makes over a garden in Newark for double amputee veteran Nathan Cumberland and his young family. Despite his injuries, Nathan has devoted his life outside the armed forces to supporting older and elderly veterans who are often less likely to seek help for themselves. With lots of tips on how to create a beautiful woodland themed outdoor space, Alan and his team of experts take on Nathan's inaccessible plot and transform it into a show-stopping family garden.

Alan Titchmarsh heads to Essex to surprise retired nurse Pat Wade - who set up a charity for young burn survivors - The Children's Burns Club. The club organises events for children with burn scarring and their families. Since the charity began in 1995, summer camps and outings have become a vital part of young people's recovery. As a thank you from the many children Pat has helped over the years, Alan and his team turn Pat's tiny concrete backyard into a glamorous outdoor entertaining space.

Alan Titchmarsh heads to Preston in Lancashire to surprise a young family facing an uncertain future. With the support of fiance Michael Brown, mum to Ivy, Roisin Pelan is facing stage 3C cancer. Despite enduring challenging treatment, Roisin has raised thousands for cancer charities and is determined to see her young daughter grow up. Alan and his team of experts turn Roisin's dangerous sloping garden into a stunning music festival-inspired haven.

Alan Titchmarsh's makeover bandwagon arrives in Cardiff to create a pretty but practical garden for dedicated fundraiser Irene Hicks. As well as regular bingo events, Irene has set up a virtual charity shop in her own home to raise money for her local Breast Cancer Unit. In just three years, she has raised over 75,000 pounds and is heading towards a target of 100,000 pounds.

In this episode, Alan Titchmarsh heads to Nottingham and gets the best reaction ever when he surprises young foster parent and mother of two Fiona Kirlew. Despite only being 36, Fiona has fostered over 40 teenage children and keeps in touch with all of them. Alan and the team turn this bubbly super-mum's dismal paved-over yard into a lush Caribbean haven that evokes her father's garden in Jamaica.

Alan Titchmarsh returns to his own childhood playground this week as he heads to the stunning Yorkshire Dales to surprise grandfather Jim Thompson (65). Despite Jim's own terminal diagnosis - his commitment to spreading awareness and raising money for Prostate Cancer Charities are legendary in the area. His most attention-grabbing stunt involved him and 22 of his male friends stripping off to create their own 'Calendar Girls' style naked Calendar.

The garden make-over team are in bustling Hackney, East London this week as Alan Titchmarsh surprises the Cariazo family. Nurses Jeroume and Onessa are the utterly devoted parents of nine year old Elijah. The wheelchair-bound only child suffers from Myotubular Myopathy, a rare genetic condition that weakens the muscles to such a degree that even breathing and swallowing are a constant challenge.

Alan Titchmarsh and the team head to Oxford to create a beautiful but productive kitchen garden for inspirational Soup Kitchen founder Icolyn Smith.

Alan Titchmarsh and the team are in Folkestone to surprise Isla - a five-year-old who lives with a form of severe epilepsy.

Alan Titchmarsh heads to Swindon to surprise Lorraine, retired RAF service-woman and devoted charity volunteer by creating a low-maintenance garden for Lorraine and her dogs.

Alan Titchmarsh is in South Wales tackling the most difficult plot the team has ever faced for father-of-three Chris Garlick who has lost his hands and feet to sepsis.

Alan Titchmarsh heads to Birmingham to surpries Georgie Moseley - the founder of Britain's first cancer drop-in centre - with a stunning Ibizan-style hideaway garden.

Alan and the team turn a suburban plot in Hull into an exciting wildlife retreat for an inspiring, nature-loving teenager and his family. With top tips on how to create a beautiful but child-safe wildlife pond, the best small trees for screening an overlooked garden, and the garden must-have of the moment, and Love Your Garden first – an outdoor cinema.

Alan goes traditional with a twist this week, creating an elegant tea-garden for a charity volunteer known as The Cake Lady – a one-woman bakery - who has made cakes for more than 9,000 injured servicemen and women.The twist? This new garden in Birmingham will have a fully equipped kitchen to bake in and raised beds full of fresh ingredients to add to pies and cakes.Alan creates a colourful living wall that's perfect for any gardening novice and Katie shares the tricks to successful balcony and rooftop gardening.

Alan Titchmarsh and the team create a cleverly designed family garden that's full of fun for pre-school tots without being a primary-coloured plastic eyesore.

Alan Titchmarsh surprises a group of senior citizens in Thornton Heath, turning an urban wasteland into a welcoming oasis of swaying grasses and pretty daisy flowers. The experts share tips on how to achieve the look of a miniature prairie even in a tiny space, the tricks to creating a cost-effective water feature from skip material, and how to choose the best low-maintenance shrubs to green up even the shadiest of spots.

Alan Titchmarsh and the garden makeover team head to Chippenham, Wiltshire to create a traditional formal garden for an inspirational couple. Richard Warren has been a serving Special Constable for 52 years, and dedicates his spare time to running marathons to raise money for charity, and caring for his wife Lynette, who has multiple sclerosis. The team shares tips on how to create a formal pond from scratch, screening solutions for unsightly spots in the garden, and reveals how to mark out a perfectly oval lawn.

Alan Titchmarsh and his team turn a suburban plot in Hull into a wildlife retreat for a nature-loving teenager and his family. Plus, tips on creating a pond that is attractive to animals and safe for children, the best small trees to screen an overlooked garden, and a guide putting together an outdoor cinema.

Alan Titchmarsh and team set out to create the ultimate lush Thai garden in Leighton Buzzard for a paramedic's family and their four rescue pugs.

Alan Titchmarsh and the team demonstrate how to bring a woodland into your garden as they create a wonderful cross between a woodland glade and a forest school.

Alan Titchmarsh and team demonstrate how to take inspiration from the gardens of grand stately homes to create a beautiful design that works for a traditional domestic garden. The team set to work transforming the garden of Mel, a Dementia Ward manager working at a Royal British Legion care home. They create a walkway of topiary leading the eye to the end of the garden, and give the outdoor space it's very own stately home inspired garden revamp.

Alan and his team are in Barry, Wales, to create an accessible and flexible family garden for ex-Army soldier Dale, who lost a leg in Afghanistan.

Alan and his team are in Salford to create an eco-inspired kitchen garden, for a community hero who likes to feed everyone and is passionate about recycling.

Alan and the team create a garden celebrating all things textural for a hard-working support worker from Leicester, who looks after young single mothers.

In Wakefield, Alan and the team create a secluded secret garden filled with hidden corners and magical touches for a wheelchair-bound little girl and her family, featuring a playful water feature and plant-petting corner, filled with sensory plants. Meanwhile in Swansea, Katie Rushworth creates a modern, sleek, sunken secret garden for a woman who throws parties for the elderly to ease loneliness.

Alan Titchmarsh and his team reveal how to bring beauty to any size garden, creating a stunning space filled with gorgeous blooms in Peterlee, County Durham for community hero, 90-year-old Mary Ann Stevenson. Taking inspiration from the pretty rose garden Mary would visit as a little girl, Alan transforms one part of Mary's concrete plot into a fragrant seating spot surrounded by scented roses.

Alan Titchmarsh, David Domoney and Danny Clarke transform a small Leicester garden into a Caribbean inspired technicolour paradise, showcasing how colour can reinvigorate outdoor spaces of any shape or size. Meanwhile in a separate garden, Frances Tophill reveals how to use light colour landscaping and shade loving flowers to bring vibrancy to dark and dingy corners

Alan Titchmarsh and his team reveal how adding water can transform any size garden, creating two incredible water gardens, one outside and one inside. In Kent, Alan, Frances Tophill and David Domoney build a stunning outdoor space in a small plot featuring three different but equally spectacular water features. Meanwhile, Katie Rushworth reveals how to build an indoor water feature that can transform a bare corner of a home.

Alan Titchmarsh and his team take on the challenge of creating a wildlife wonderland complete with a giant pond and rockery in a suburban garden in West Bromwich for local hero fund raiser Pete Hill. Elsewhere in London, Danny takes up Alan's challenge of turning a four-metre wide city backyard into a nature haven complete with living walls and a miniature pond.

Alan Titchmarsh and his team are in the Wirral to create a jungle inspired outdoor space for Conrad and Pauline Toohey, who have dedicated their lives to helping others, including severely disabled son Keiron. Their garden is so overgrown some of the family have not used it for decades, so Alan and the team transform the garden into a tranquil retreat with a pond to attract wildlife, and covered pergola surrounded by tropical planting. Meanwhile, Frances Tophill is in Cornwall to visit the UK's only outdoor jungle at the Lost Gardens of Heligan, where she helps head gardener Cindy plant some pond lilies.

Alan Titchmarsh and his team head to Suffolk to transform a garden for charity worker Eileen, who is desperate for a peaceful outdoor space to spend time with her husband Roy, who suffers from Parkinson's. Alan designs an inward-looking intimate area surrounded by beautiful year round colour for Roy and Eileen to enjoy, while Katie Rushworth takes inspiration from their love of pinks and blues to plant a wrap-around border.

Alan Titchmarsh and the team are in Sheffield to create a stunning family garden for Seema and Nawras, who both work shifts for the NHS while also giving 24 hour care to their severely disabled daughter Nour, and two other children. Their neglected outdoor space is more assault course than peaceful sanctuary, so the team create a truly accessible and stimulating space for the whole family to enjoy, with entertaining spaces and lush fragrant planting.

Alan Titchmarsh and his team transform a concrete backyard in Burnley into an Ibiza-inspired sanctuary for James and Barbara, who run a charity providing free plumbing services to elderly and vulnerable families in the area. Katie Rushworth creates a stunning seating area wrapped in foliage, while Danny Clarke replaces James's rather rustic barbecue with a spectacular outdoor kitchen area. Elsewhere, David Domoney is on the Cornish coast to visit Lamorran Gardens.

Alan Titchmarsh and his team come to the aid of Penny and Carl in Leeds, whose devotion to looking after wildlife, including an endangered hedgehog, has taken over their garden. The team get to work creating a wildlife-friendly space that will also be suitable for the children to play in, and at the bottom of the garden, David Domoney designs a wildflower meadow complete with hedgehog-friendly pond.

In West London, Alan and his team meet Sybil, a widow who is struggling to keep on top of the garden she used to care for with the help of her husband, Harold. Alan creates an intimate peaceful space with a water feature, soft planting and parasol trees to create a quiet spot for reflection, while Bruce Kenneth builds a bespoke bench for Sybil to sit and remember her husband. Elsewhere, Danny Clarke visits the Barbican, where gardeners have transformed this urban landscape into a haven of greenery.

Alan Titchmarsh and his team are in Raunds, Northamptonshire, to overhaul firefighter Rebecca's garden, creating a space that can accommodate gym equipment, a play area and a vegetable patch. Meanwhile, Danny Clarke pays a visit to Easton Lodge in Essex where designer Harold Peto also created garden rooms to play in, relax and grow vegetables, but on a much bigger scale.

In Enfield, Hertfordshire, Alan Titchmarsh and his team transform a garden for Yvonne, a woman who has devoted her life to combatting knife crime after the death of her son who was tragically murdered when he was just 17-years-old. Alan's design is all about the garden becoming a healing space, where Yvonne can remember her son, and where the family can come together again. Elsewhere, Katie Rushworth learns just how healing nature can be at the Cascades Gardens in Derbyshire.

Alan and the team head to the town of Hinckley to surprise 96-year-old Second World War veteran Gordon with a stunning garden transformation. Alan sets about bringing a classic beautiful English country garden to this inaccessible space that includes raised beds in dry stone walls, a sociable seating area, a mini-orchard and an outdoor room.

Alan and the team transform a garden in the Oxfordshire town of Bicester for local community heroes Adam and Alice and their two children. With a holiday in Vietnam as inspiration, Alan's design takes the couple and their children on a journey around the Far East with exotic planting, new rockery, and modern water features to transport them to another place. Meanwhile, Katie Rushworth is in Derbyshire at Cascades Gardens where the owners have created an exotic, retreat-like space with clever design and plant selection.