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Gardening is 'therapy' for green fingered David Beckham who is 'obsessed'

David Beckhan is obsessed with gardening says his green fingered pal Alamn Titchmarsh and reveals how healing the exEngland captain finds it

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Gardening is therapy for Becks(Image: Megan Briggs/Getty Images)

Sir David Beckham has swapped football pitches for wild flower meadows after becoming obsessed with gardening.

So claims garden garden guru, Alan Titchmarsh who has been rummaging around the Beckham family undergrowth and revealed how the England legend likened growing things to "therapy." Ever green telly fave Titchmarsh revealed: Davids a really keen gardener.

Ive been to his garden and talked to him about it. Hes obsessed with it; I have that in common with him as well. David has discovered the therapy of growing things.

Beckham previously described the countryside as his sanctuary admitting: "I'm never happier than when I'm here (in his Cotswold garden)."

[Alan Titchmarsh, King Charles, Sir David Beckham and Frances Tophill in Highgrove Gardens]

Becks and Charles in the garden(Image: PA)

Becks said gardening "makes me feel as if I've done a good job as a father and that I did the right thing in wanting us to have a house here."

Another of Titchmarsh's green fingered celebrity friends also finds gardening healing - King Charles.

The telly presenter revealed: Gardening has given him a lot of solace. But its also good for the planet, for wildlife and natural history and these are things hes passionate about.

He added: The King has done more for horticulture, gardening, natural history and the environment than anybody else, apart from David Attenborough.

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King Charles has done more for horticulture than anyone else

"His energy is mind-blowing. Hes enthusiastic, but also pragmatic. The King gets stuck in he doesnt just say something should be done, he instigates it.

Titchmarsh - who was unwittingly banned by Kim Jong Un on North Korean telly for wearing blue jeans recently - has been 'friends with the King since 1986.

He told the Radio Times: Ive walked around his gardens with him on many occasions, but when he acceded to the throne, I was prepared for horticulture not to occupy quite the same place in his heart and daily life. But nothing could have been further from the truth."

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Titchmarsh was talking to the Radio Times(Image: RADIO TIMES)

Alan Titchmarsh joined King Charles, Sir David Beckham and Frances Tophill in Highgrove Gardens recently.

However, he still can't believe he's digging up weeds with the King, let alone gardening for a living: I live with permanent impostor syndrome, and seeing the King there reinforced my own feeling of, Wait, Im doing what?

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