ARE you one of life's perpetual hoarders, with cupboards full of old photographs, magazines, family memorabilia, greetings cards and childhood paintings?

If the waste-not, want-not, it might come in useful mentality' extends to your garden shed, then you might just be able to help award-winning television gardener, Chris Beardshaw, in his quest to unearth old tools and artefacts from a bygone age.

Chris is building a big display garden for the Malvern Spring Gardening Show (May 10 to 13), and is on the lookout for all manner of plants, reclaimed materials and Victorian implements to furnish his authentic Victorian bothy garden.

Top of his most wanted list at the moment are an old tin bath, a treadle pump well and Victorian gardening tools.

Readers able to help Chris should write to him c/o Sharon Gilbert, Press Office, The Showground, Malvern, Worcestershire WR13 6NW.