He says it will help the planet
Alan Titchmarsh has urged gardeners across the country to plant one type of flower in a bud to help the planet. The TV hardening expert was speaking during an episode of Love Your Garden on ITV1 alongside co-stars Frances Tophill, Katie Rushworth and David Domoney.
While recreating a D-Day veteran's garden, Alan said he is now 'very conscious' of including one type of flower instead of another in order to help insects out, reports YorkshireLive. He told viewers to plant more single-petal flowers such as daisies, dahlias and scabious instead of 'double flowers' like roses, lilac, carnations and peony.
Alan said: "I'm very conscious when we plant gardens at the moment to make sure we've got lots of pollinators. Our insect population in the UK which is vital to the well-being of every single living thing: plants, flowers, humans animals, with double flowers everywhere and lack of flowers and nectars, they've got nothing to feed on.
"So we have lots of single flowers in my borders such as scabious which they love. Single flowers have one row of daisy-like petals around the nectar-rich centre whereas double flowers have layer upon layer of petals which make pollen collection too tricky." He went on to describe several flowers he had added to the borders with clear and easy-to-access nectar in the middle "because that feeds the insects."
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