Alan Titchmarsh is known to millions through his career as a television presenter of shows including Love Your Garden, Ground Force, Gardeners' World, The Chelsea Flower Show, Secrets of the National Trust and The Alan Titchmarsh Show. He has written more than forty gardening books, as well as eleven novels and three volumes of memoirs. He was made MBE in the millennium New Year Honours list and holds the Victoria Medal of Honour, the Royal Horticultural Society's highest award.