Knave of Spades

When Alan Titchmarsh left school at 15 he found his spiritual home in the ancient greenhouses of the local nursery. He journeyed south to college and then to Kew Gardens where he encountered rare plants collected by Captain Cook. Then fate took a hand when he landed a job on BBC's Nationwide as their gardening presenter. His childhood dream of inheriting the mantle of gardening god Percy Thrower was beginning to come true ...