In 2002, Alan Titchmarsh — gardener, gardening writer, radio/television presenter, novelist, bellringer, poet, polymath and all-round national treasure — and his wife, Alison, bought their much-loved Hampshire home, Grade II-listed Manor Farm House at Holybourne, near Alton, ‘not only because we wanted a Georgian house, but also because I felt that I had one more garden in me’. Since then, he has renovated the former manor house, restored and extended the outbuildings and created a wonderful four-acre garden, described in Country Life’s October 30, 2024 issue as ‘a place of endless delights and charm ’.

Now that his work there is done, he and his wife plan to downsize to another Hampshire village house with a couple of acres, not only to be closer to their daughters and grandchildren, b

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