Love Your Garden Season 1, Episode 12: The Cottage Garden

The Traditional British Garden

In the first programme, Alan demonstrates how to create a perfect traditional British garden including a dream summerhouse, fabulous flower beds and a way of producing your own honey.

30 min

The Country Garden

Alan Titchmarsh visits Whitehouse Cottage in rural Berkshire to show how to achieve that country look - from mosaic pathways and climbing clematis to rustic flower beds and ironwork benches. Plus Valentine Warner creates some heavenly flavours from a vegetable patch and Charlotte Uhlenbroek reveals what to do when hedgehogs come calling.

30 min

The Formal Garden

30 min

The City Garden

30 min

The Fantasy Garden

30 min

The Flower Garden

30 min

The Entertaining Garden

30 min

The Exotic Garden

30 min

The Rose Garden

In this episode, Alan visits a garden by the sea in East Wittering that works in harmony with the coastal elements.

30 min

The Small Garden

In this episode, Alan demonstrates how to build a rose garden, and visits one in Wendover, Buckinghamshire. Plus Laetitia Maklouf reveals ways to extend the life of a rose into winter by making rosewater, Valentine Warner shows how roses can even be the key ingredient in a spicy sauce, and Alan suggests stunning ways to display the flower – from rustic pergolas to pavilions from paradise

30 min

The Traditional Cottage Garden

Alan is in Harlow in Essex, where he shows how the smallest of gardens can be turned into a private sanctuary. He also transforms a tiny hot tub area into an intimate tropical garden. Matt James demonstrates how to make the very best out of a humble basement and, as autumn arrives, Laetitia Maklouf uses dried petals to keep the summer alive, and there is a look at the ultimate garden status symbols, from deluxe hanging baskets to five-star hot tubs.

30 min