‘Everyone's a gardener!'
TV Times|February 26, 2022
Tayshan Hayden-Smith on how the Grenfell Tower fire inspired him to swap football for horticulture…
HANNAH DAVIES
‘Everyone's a gardener!'

YOUR GARDEN MADE PERFECT

FRI / BBC2 / 8PM (NOT NI & WALES) / EP 5 of 6 / LIFESTYLE

Tayshan Hayden-Smith has already made his mark on BBC2’s Your Garden Made Perfect as a low-cost design specialist, helping families on limited budgets create stunning gardens in small spaces.

However, Tayshan’s road to horticulture fame has been an unusual one. He started out as a footballer, but after the devastating Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, he became a ‘guerilla gardener’ in the local community.

Here, Tayshan, 25, tells TV Times about his career switch and how we can all be green-fingered…

You used to be a footballer, so how did you become a gardener?

I’m still football mad! I played semi-professionally for Brentford and I did a stint at Wimbledon and QPR, so if you’d told me five years ago that gardening would be on the agenda, I’d have said, ‘Good one!’

This story is from the February 26, 2022 edition of TV Times.

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