A morning with Alan Titchmarsh

Alan Titchmarsh and Simon Howard, outside Castle Howard	Lord Selborne (one of the new trustees) joins Alan and Simon in Ray Wood – Castle Howard

	John Simmons, the curator of the arboretum, shows Alan part of the arboretum

Ron Cooke, the chairman of our trustees, joins Simon, Alan and John.	Ron introduces Alan

Alan captures the audience with his fund of anecdotes.		The drawing of the raffle

Some of the audience	Plenty of time was available to meet Alan and have a book signed

Lady Selborne and Mrs. Jane Ingham who has recently become one of our trustees		Lady Clarissa Collin with her gardener Jonathan

After the morning’s entertainment Alan and his wife, Allison, joined our trustees and benefactors for lunch in the Grecian Room at Castle Howard. After lunch Alan regaled us with more tales and then conducted an auction of some extremely rare plants donated by RBG Kew. Afterwards John Simmons gave the vote of thanks and presented Allison with a bouquet of flowers.