{"id":664821,"date":"2026-06-29T19:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/664821\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T19:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:16:19","slug":"alan-titchmarsh-says-my-eyes-are-full-of-tears-as-he-shares-real-reason-for-leaving-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/664821\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Titchmarsh says \u2018my eyes are full of tears\u2019 as he shares real reason for leaving home"},"content":{"rendered":"

In recent months Alan Titchmarsh has touched on how he has felt about downsizing from his Hampshire home to one storey bungalow in Surrey, one which comes with a smaller garden\"An<\/p>\n

Alan Titchmarsh has spoken about downsizing(Image: Surrey Advertiser – Grahame Larter)<\/p>\n

Renowned gardener and Gardeners’ World host<\/a> Alan Titchmarsh<\/a> has in recent months spoken about a major change in his life \u2014 his decision to downsize from his Grade II Hampshire home to a single-storey building with a smaller garden in Surrey.<\/p>\n

In the process of this decision, Alan, 77, has been open about the fact that this has not been easy for him or his wife Alison to deal with. He has now gone further as he writes his final article from a garden he has dedicated over 20 years of his life to caring for.<\/p>\n

Writingin the BBC <\/a>Gardeners\u2019 World magazine, Alan opened up about the real reason for such a major change.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cAt the time of writing, this will be my last missive penned from the house and garden into which we moved in 2002. Because\u2026it\u2019s time. Running a large garden \u2013 around four acres of land \u2013 is a huge undertaking. The rewards are enormous but the responsibility is weighty.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I want to carry on writing and broadcasting\u2026there is no way it can be maintained without help. I\u2019ve been lucky over the years to find a handful of people who have been a godsend.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Alan Titchmarsh has spoken about leaving his garden(Image: UK Press via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Alan later admitted that he had taken inspiration from the late monarch Queen Elizabeth II<\/a> when he was trying to work out how to describe what he felt.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIt\u2019s time to leave while I have the choice, rather than being forced out by circumstances beyond my control. It was Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II who reminded us that grief is the price we pay for love.<\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot imagine ever loving a garden as much as the one I am leaving, which has seen my children grow up and echoed to the sounds of grandchildren\u2026and now that I come to write these words I freely confess that my eyes are full of tears.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Alan<\/p>\n

Alan Titchmarsh(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n

This is not the first time Alan has spoken about his time in the garden attached to his and Alison\u2019s five-bedroom home, and how he feels about leaving.<\/p>\n

On the topic of how he feels about leaving the garden, he was once again stoic. He told The Times: \u201cI love that garden more than I\u2019ve loved anything I\u2019ve ever made. I\u2019ve given it a quarter of a century of love and care.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut when we hand over the key and close the gate, I\u2019m not looking back. I can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Alan is downsizing, he is not slowing down. In fact, he has recently launched his own YouTube<\/a> channel, Gardening<\/a> with Alan Titchmarsh, which now has over 100,000 subscribers.<\/p>\n

Expressing his delight at the channel\u2019s success, he said it had stunned him \u201cbecause I\u2019m never terribly confident in what I do, but it\u2019s gaining a thousand subscribers a day, which is kind of wow. I\u2019m thrilled because it\u2019s sharing skills.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In recent months Alan Titchmarsh has touched on how he has felt about downsizing from his Hampshire home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32072,96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-664821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-alan-titchmarsh","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}