Alan Titchmarsh yields to no-one in his striving for garden perfectionism — and he's helped in his task by a cunning strategy that helps him avoid weeding almost completely. There are those who ...

Alan Titchmarsh is to be made a CBE in the New Year Honours (Yui Mok/PA ... He has written more than 40 gardening books and his bibliography boasts more than 10 novels and three memoirs.