Greatest Gardens with Diarmuid Gavin and Carol Klein
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm, Friday, May 15 on BBC Two England (2)
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Season 1, Episode 4
TV presenter and keen gardener Katie Piper joins Diarmuid and Carol to visit three more gardens. The judges head to Colin's surprising rustic garden in suburban Ballymena, before seeing how Adrienne has transformed two acres near the windswept Glenshane Pass in the foothills of the Sperrin Mountains. Their final stop is in Dromore, Co Down, where Julietta has created a garden designed with her young family in mind, including a wild meadow playground and a courtyard filled with edible plants
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Diarmuid Gavin
(Judge)
Carol Klein
(Judge)
John FD Northover
(Series director)
Veronica Cunningham
(Series producer)
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Diarmuid Gavin
(Judge)
Born:
May 10, 1964
in
London
Best Known For:
Creating state-of-the-art designs using contoured concrete and shiny steel
Early-life:
Born May 10, 1964, in London, but was brought up in Rathfarnham, a suburb of Dublin, where he claims gardening wasn't taken seriously. He has an older brother and two younger sisters. Another brother, Conor, was killed in a car accident in 1968. He claims he was a dreamer at school and didn't work hard enough to get to university. Instead, Diarmuid trained in horticulture at the National Botanic Gardens in Dublin, and later set up his own garden design business.
Career:
Gavin's TV career took off after he designed a controversial garden for the Chelsea Flower Show. He made his presenting debut in 1999's The Answer Lies in the Soil and since then has hosted Home Front in the Garden, Real Rakeovers and Home Front Inside Out with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. Gavin has also been voted TV's sexiest gardener by his legion of female fans. Shows such as Planet Patio, Planet Christmas and Diarmuid's Big Adventure have kept him in the public eye. He's also been a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing and Come Dine with Me, written books and newspaper columns, and hosted programmes in Ireland. He also took part in the first series of ITV's diving show Splash!
Quote:
'You don't have to be a plant expert to create or enjoy a garden.'
Trivia:
He appeared in a celebrity edition of The Chase and raised £2,666 for Wicklow Hospice Foundation.
Carol Klein
(Judge)
Best Known For:
Her appearances on all manner of gardening shows
Early-life:
Born in Walkden, Salford, Lancashire in 1945, Carol originally trained as an art teacher and taught in schools in the London area before moving to Devon. There she taught at North Devon College before setting up her own plant nursery, Glebe Cottage Plants.
Career:
She made her TV debut on Gardeners' World in 1989 and has since presented other gardening programmes such as Real Gardens and Open Gardens. Recent projects include Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Klein which follows a year in the life of Carol's garden at Glebe Cottage in North Devon, and Grow Your Own Veg, which encouraged people to start growing their own vegetables. She is known for her cheerful presenting style and is hugely popular among gardeners.
Quote:
"I'll just do whatever I do better. I'll keep on keeping on. Anyway, it's just television, isn't it - it's not real life."
Trivia:
Klein's newspaper columns are highly regarded.
John FD Northover
(Series director)
Veronica Cunningham
(Series producer)
