Alan Titchmarsh was left in agony after breaking his ankle while in the garden. The star fell over last week and has been hobbling on crutches since. “The thing that occupies me at the moment is the broken ankle I incurred this week when slipping on our dew-laden lawn,” he says.
It’s the latest gardening injury suffered by the star as he says he often has “blackened fingernails, lacerated arms and legs from confrontations with well-armed rose bushes, stabbing pains in the back from carrying paving slabs and large posts.” On another occasion there was a “tree-staking episode.” Writing in his Gardener’s World column, he says: “I was inserting a stout wooden stake into a prepared hole for a standard tree and holding the sledge hammer at the
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