Carol Klein

Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Kleine episode 3 - Spring into Summer

Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Kleine episode 3 – Spring into Summer

Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Kleine episode 3 – Spring into Summer: In May and June, everything in the garden is surging forwards, full of exuberance. Rather than sitting back to enjoy it all, Carol is planting out sweet peas, picking the first salad leaves and staking perennials.     Blossom drips from the trees, the woodland garden […]

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Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Kleine episode 2 - Spring

Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Kleine episode 2 – Spring

Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Kleine episode 2: March and April is a time of huge change in the garden, as the remnants of winter make way for the hope of spring. Carol is busy clearing away the last of the winter detritus to make way for waves of planting. There’s pruning to be done, and she sows

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Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Kleine episode 1 - Winter

Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Kleine episode 1 – Winter

Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Kleine episode 1 – Winter has come… harsh frosts have shattered Carol’s tulip pots, and her brick paths are ruined. Carol takes shelter in the potting shed and prepares her garlic for spring planting. On finer days, she begins pruning late-flowering clematis, and when the thaw comes she begins a major re-vamp in

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Gardening with Carol Klein episode 2

Gardening with Carol Klein episode 2

Gardening with Carol Klein episode 2: The second of a two-part masterclass in which the horticulturalist shares her knowledge. From her potting shed at Glebe Cottage garden, Carol shows in detail how to sow seed, and then how to bring on the resulting young plants, caring for them until they reach maturity. Outdoors, she explains how to pant vegetables and

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Great British Gardens: Season by Season with Carol Klein

Great British Gardens: Season by Season with Carol Klein

Great British Gardens: Season by Season with Carol Klein – Carol Klein witnesses some of Britain’s most treasured outdoor spaces.     The plantswoman and broadcaster visits Gresgarth Hall, the Lancashire country home of garden designer Arabella Lennox-Boyd. The grounds of the estate comprise the formal garden rooms nearer the house, and a wilder area where Arabella has planted 6,000

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Gardening with Carol Klein episode 1

Gardening with Carol Klein episode 1

Gardening with Carol Klein episode 1: The gardening guru shares her insights on everything from edibles to ornamentals. The writer and expert showed viewers what the garden used to look like before she transformed it.     Carol Klein VMH is an English gardening expert, who also works as a television presenter and newspaper columnist.   Gardening with Carol Klein

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The A to Z of TV Gardening - Letter G

The A to Z of TV Gardening – Letter G

The A to Z of TV Gardening – Letter G: Carol Kirkwood takes an alphabetical journey through the world of gardening, getting inspiration and advice from some of the BBC’s most popular garden presenters and programmes.     In this episode, she is exploring subjects that all begin with the letter G: Garlic, Gooseberries, Geraniums.   The A to Z

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The A to Z of TV Gardening - Letter B

The A to Z of TV Gardening – Letter B

The A to Z of TV Gardening – Letter B: Carol Kirkwood takes an alphabetical journey through the world of gardening, getting inspiration and advice from some of the most popular garden presenters and programmes.     In this episode, she explores subjects that all begin with the letter B: brassicas, berrys, beetroot   The A to Z of TV

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waterlily

Carol Klein’s Plant Odysseys – Waterlily episode 4

In the fourth and final chapter of the series, Carol Klein takes a look at one of the most recognisable and influential flowers in our world, the waterlily. It is a plant of unlikely economic importance, spiritual significance and artistic inspiration.       Carol Klein’s Plant Odysseys – Waterlily episode 4   She travels to the far east to

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iris

Carol Klein’s Plant Odysseys – Iris episode 3

The third leg of Carol’s odyssey takes her on a journey from England to Turkey, to Italy and home again, discovering the intricate biology of the iris flower and its cultural significance to mankind over thousands of years. Carol takes a close-up look into the intimate relationship between bees and irises and, under the guidance of an evolutionary plant biologist,

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tulips

Carol Klein’s Plant Odysseys – Tulips episode 2

There are 6,000 delightful varieties of tulips in the world today, with new colours and forms being cultivated every year. Carol Klein’s odyssey to uncover the colourful history of this popular flower begins high in the mountains of eastern Turkey, where a species tulip, one of the early ancestors of those we grow in our gardens, can be found flourishing

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Carol Klein's Plant Odysseys - Roses episode 1

Carol Klein’s Plant Odysseys – Roses episode 1

Four-part series in which Carol Klein explores the inner secrets and botanical history of four of our favourite garden plants: the rose, the tulip, the iris and the water lily.       Carol Klein’s Plant Odysseys – Roses episode 1   The first episode looks at the rose. The rose has always meant so much to Britain – it

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