Carol Klein
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Carol Klein is a British gardening expert, who also works as a television presenter and newspaper columnist.
Born in Manchester, 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.
She made her television debut on Gardeners' World in 1989 and has since presented other gardening programmes such as Real Gardens and Open Gardens
Her current projects include Grow Your Own Veg, a programme for BBC Two encouraging people to start growing their own vegetables. Each week the program looks at a different group of crop plants or techniques suitable for home gardening. She has also been a permanent presenter of Gardeners' World since 2005.
As well as television work, Carol Klein also writes for various gardening publications such as BBC Gardeners' World magazine as well as a column for British newspaper, The Guardian.
[edit] Bibliography
- Plant Personalities: Choosing and Growing Plants by Character with Jonathan Buckley (Cassell Illustrated, 2004) ISBN 1-8440-3046-6
- Grow Your Own Veg (Mitchell Beazley, 2007) ISBN 1-8453-3293-8
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Carol Klein at the Internet Movie Database
- BBC Press Office - Carol Klein
- A firm favourite - Article by her in The Guardian, Saturday July 28, 2007
- Grow your own Veg - BBC television programme
- Portrait of her at the National Portrait Gallery
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