THE green-fingered Joe Swift is coming to Pershore's Number 8 venue to tell a local audience exactly how his garden grows.

Joe, best known as a BBC "Gardeners' World" presenter, will be talking compost and cuttings on Friday, September 23, from 7.30pm, when he will be, of course, "A Man About the Garden".

A spokesman said: "Viewers of BBC’s Gardeners’ World are in for a treat as garden designer, writer and TV presenter Joe Swift digs deep to share his story.

"From art college and through a rock ‘n’ roll youth to becoming one of the country’s top garden designers and a familiar face on TV, Joe has plenty of entertaining stories to tell. The event will give Pershore audiences the opportunity to discover what made a young bassist in a band decide to take up gardening."

The spokesman added: "Hear what really happens behind the scenes filming Gardeners’ World and find out what it takes to get an RHS Chelsea Flower Show gold medal.

"Joe comes from a family or actors and writers his dad is Clive Swift who most famously played the brow-beaten husband in BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances while his mother is acclaimed novelist Margaret Drabble. Joe’s late uncle, David Swift, was best known as the badly-behaved news anchor Henry Davenport in Channel 4’s classic 90s satire, Drop the Dead Donkey."

Tickets are on sale now from Number 8 Box Office on 01386 555488.