Love Your Garden

Alan Titchmarsh and his team are in the Brecon Beacons where they attempt to create a garden suitable for a big family. Rob and Rachel Jones have five children, including an autistic son and a daughter with cerebral palsy. The couple particularly want a space where the whole family can all gather together. Alan gets some inspiration from a wonderful family garden in Monmouthshire with winding paths. He sets David Domoney onto the task of creating similar pathways, and building a bespoke stone barbecue to match the house. Alan orders a huge gazebo where the family can gather for those special outdoor occasions, and gets some sensory plants which are particularly good for children with special needs.

Alan Titchmarsh and the team are in Barking, where they hope they can coax 90-year-old Iris back into her garden. Since her husband died, the garden has become neglected, but Iris longs to have somewhere to sit and smell the scent of the roses. David Domoney constructs the perfect pathway, while Katie Rushworth sets to work finding a variety of rose which is wildlife-friendly and Frances Tophill creates a summer house full of memories.

Alan Titchmarsh and the team transform a large garden that once played a central role in a family's life but became neglected following a personal tragedy. Wendy and Graham Pott's son Matt was killed in an accident three years ago, after which the devastated couple sank into a deep depression. However, this summer, Wendy and Graham's eldest son Dan is having a wedding blessing and the Potts think it is time that they returned the garden to its original function - a pleasant open space in which to entertain. That is where Alan and the team come in. This is the biggest plot they have tackled to date, so Alan goes to get some inspiration at another nearby large garden which has a big pond as a focal point. Landscaping expert David Domoney sets to work building a similar water feature, while Katie Rushworth finds plants with flowers that can be used for the upcoming wedding blessing and Frances Tophill creates an orchard area. The icing on the cake is a performance area around the pond.

Alan Titchmarsh returns with a new series of the hit gardening show. He comes to the rescue of a fellow gardener and his family in Hurst Green as they bravely cope with a life-threatening illness. Diagnosed two years ago with motor neurone disease, Malcolm Dean is confined to a wheelchair and unable to go outside and do the gardening he used to love. He, his wife Trish and nine-year-old son George have recently moved into a specially adapted bungalow a few doors down from their old home. But the sloping garden makes it virtually impossible for Malcolm to get much beyond the end of the ramp which his friends and family bought and installed. Alan turns up to surprise the family and to see for himself how unsuitable the current garden is for their needs. He then sends them away whilst his crack team of landscapers and horticulturalists arrive on site, hoping to build a garden that exceeds the family's expectations.

This week, Alan Titchmarsh and his team come to the aid of a Falklands veteran and his wife who need help turning their barren back garden into a planting paradise. Having joined the army aged 15, John Phillips went on to become a bomb disposal expert with the Royal Engineers. Sent to the Falklands in 1982, John was defusing a device onboard HMS Antelope when it exploded, costing John's colleague his life, while he had to have his arm amputated. John was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and continued to serve for another 30 years. Now retired, he and his wife have moved to a bungalow in Woking to be near one of their children, but the task of overhauling their desolate garden is beyond them. With the help of David Domoney, Katie Rushworth and Frances Tophill, Alan delivers some colour, a new greenhouse and a seating area in a cosy corner from where the couple can see the garden's new focal point - a piece of Falkland rock donated and delivered by the Royal Engineers.

Alan Titchmarsh and his team of helpers transform a bare and unwelcoming outdoor space into a wildlife-filled paradise. Rhyanne Nixon has motor neurone disease and is confined to a wheelchair. A bubbly and outgoing lady, she and her family have moved to a small bungalow, whose garden is dominated by a large wooden viewing platform - which she cannot access. Rhyanne loves wildlife and as a former holistic practitioner would enjoy a garden filled with colour and scents. As the team get to work, Alan envisages a wildlife-friendly environment centred around a large new pond, and filling it with water is David Domoney's first challenge. Katie Rushworth and Frances Tophill are looking after the planting as they create borders filled with Rhyanne's favourite flowers and smells. On her return, will the garden be everything she hoped for?