Carol Klein

Carol Klein
Klein at the 2010 RHS Tatton Park show
Born	1945 Walkden, Lancashire, England
Nationality	British
Education	Bolton School
Occupation	Television presenter
Employer	BBC
Known for	television gardening programmes
Home town	Walkden, Lancashire
Television	Gardeners' World

Carol Klein (born 1945) is an English gardening expert, who also works as a television presenter and newspaper columnist.

Born in Walkden, Lancashire, in 1945, Klein attended Bolton School and then trained as an art teacher and taught in schools in Shepherd's Bush, London before moving to Devon. There she lectured at North Devon College and taught art at South Molton Secondary School and Community College before setting up her own plant nursery, Glebe Cottage Plants.

Klein made her television debut on Gardeners' World in 1989 and has since presented other gardening programmes such as Real Gardens and Open Gardens.

Projects include Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Klein which followed a year in the life of Klein's garden at Glebe Cottage in North Devon, and Grow Your Own Veg. Each week the programme looked at a different group of crop plants or techniques suitable for home gardening. Both programmes were made for BBC Two. She has been a permanent presenter of Gardeners' World since 2005.

Klein has been described as having a "weather-beaten face, forthright manner and fruity accent – mainly West Country but with hints of her native Manchester.."

In 2013, she presented two episodes of Great British Garden Revival.

Klein is married to Neil Klein and has two daughters, Annie and Alice.

In 2011 Klein's nursery business, Glebe Cottage Plants, based at her home at Chittlehamholt near Umberleigh, which took orders from all over the UK, was forced to close after a dispute with her neighbour.

As well as television work, Klein has written a number of bestselling books for Mitchell Beazley and writes for gardening publications such as BBC Gardeners' World magazine as well as a column for The Guardian. She writes a weekly column, syndicated through the Trinity Mirror regional's newspaper publishing business, which appears in the "Saturday Extra" magazine given with regional newspaper titles such as the Liverpool Echo and Manchester Evening News.