Great British Gardens: Season by Season with Carol Klein — Season 2
About this season
Carol Klein witnesses some of Britain's most treasured outdoor spaces throughout the four seasons.
Episodes (8)
1. Arundel Castle Gardens
Aired 14 June 2021 • 60 min
Today, the gardens include huge tropical borders, intricate knot gardens, copious topiary, fantastical architecture, and theatrical water features.
2. Coton Manor Gardens
Aired 21 June 2021 • 60 min
This week, Carol visits the garden of Coton Manor, located in the peaceful Northamptonshire countryside. It was an inheritance that might have intimidated many.
3. Bressingham Gardens
Aired 28 June 2021 • 60 min
Carol visits Bressingham Gardens in Norfolk, home of the Bloom dynasty of Norfolk horticulturists who introduced British gardeners to a wealth of plants and devised a revolutionary way to display them. Carol spends time with Adrian Bloom, whose ethos is to introduce the very best examples of plants that will grace even a tiny garden.
4. Wollerton Old Hall
Aired 5 July 2021 • 60 min
Carol visits the garden of a 16th-century manor house, Wollerton Old Hall in Shropshire, a beautiful and intricate four-acre oasis in the English garden tradition. With its traditional craftsmanship, sympathetic architecture, elegant topiary and hedges, and deep borders, it looks like it's been here for 100 years, but owners Lesley and John only bought the property in 1983, and since then have set about recapturing the spirit and quality of a bygone era.
5. Aberglasny Gardens
Aired 11 November 2021 • 55 min
Set in the quiet valleys of West Wales, the Aberglasney gardens are filled with plants that thrive in some of the wettest conditions that Britain has to offer.
6. Marchants
Aired 18 November 2021 • 60 min
Graham Gough and his wife Lucy started their nursery, Marchants Hardy Plants on the borders of the South Downs in 1998. Today their gardens have become a Mecca for people who love a new style of gardening.
7. Beth Chatto Gardens
Aired 25 November 2021 • 60 min
Creator Beth Chatto, was a pioneer gardener and her 15 acre garden is the embodiment of "right plant, right place" and is situated in one of the driest spots in Britain.
8. Llanover
Aired 2 December 2021 • 60 min
The gardens, set at historic Llanover House, have been tended by seven generations of the same green-fingered family.