Alan Titchmarsh:

While the team upscale the shed, Francis is off to find some cool design inspiration at a garden in Preston that's nailed the contemporary look.

Frances Tophill:

It's really noticeable in this garden that the boundaries are as much a feature as the planting. Normally, you would see climbers going up these fences, but they're beautiful in themselves and they've just been left in their full glory. I really like that.

Alan Titchmarsh:

Modern boundaries and a minimal colour scheme create a clean look complemented by the uncluttered greenery.

Frances Tophill:

The planting here is not simple, but there's quite a lot of species but they are all part of the same colour palette. So all these beautiful different shades of green: of the euphorbia, the hydrangea and lambs ears and wherever you do get flower, it's just white, like this lovely geranium. Isn’t that so delicate? And the overall impact of that whole really minimal palette is a calming and harmonising one.

Alan Titchmarsh:

And subtle design tricks separate the garden into different areas.

Frances Tophill:

You can really see in this garden by the different zones or rooms are the level changes, the way, the furniture is placed out really delineates different areas of garden. Now, we don't have to space for that back in Liverpool, but we can still create that sort of idea, just takes a little bit more thinking.

Frances Tophill:

You can really see in this garden by the different zones or rooms are the level changes, the way, the furniture is placed out really delineates different areas of garden. Now, we don't have to space for that back in Liverpool, but we can still create that sort of idea, just takes a little bit more thinking.

Alan Titchmarsh:

Francis’s first plan is to clad the exterior walls. The expanded shed will work as a partition.

Alan Titchmarsh:

This where the shed was. Now, we're gonna put the shed here, which creates a little courtyard here for Georgia. Maybe some planters that you can move?

Alan Titchmarsh:

Portable planters on wheels means the space can be more flexible.

Frances Tophill:

There. That’s a little seating area that should give everyone a space they can enjoy and then just reconfigure it when they want to change things. I'm pretty confident that we can give Sue and Georgia a bespoke really up-to-date garden that will perfectly suit their individual needs.