alan titchmarsh says, "i hate..." he's listened to you.of british gardening "thrown out of the window "because people think the only way forward "is to leave our gardens to go wild." he says, "people are being brainwashed "that gardens really should only exist for birds, "bees and other forms of life. "they should belong to us." mm. well, you know, that's very short—term thinking, isn't it? because here we are with a global crisis that is going to affect our very survival. and alan titchmarsh is thinking about his patios and his decking. you know, we have to look at... well, to be fair to alan titchmarsh, he's not about decking and patios, but he's about managing what he regards to be a beautiful environment created by man with intervention, the sorts of intervention that you are arguing against. we have to think, you know, the planet is on fire. we've got to think of gardens for the future that are not going to require huge amounts of fertiliser, peat, compost and watering. we've got to think of how we can have beautiful gardens — absolut