Presenters
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Toby Buckland
Toby joined the Gardeners' World team in September 2008. This series in the new garden, Greenacre, he's demonstrating lots of useful tips and advice on how to get the best out of your garden as well as steering newcomers through the basics of vegetable growing alongside the Dig In campaign.
Toby's known for his creative but practical approach to gardening. A hands-on gardener with a passion for fruit and vegetable growing he's equally at home in the flower borders and has a reputation for building artistic garden features made from plants and recycled materials.
He trained and worked as a rose and pinks nurseryman and gardener before studying at Hadlow College, Kent and later worked at The University of Cambridge Botanic Garden. Toby has written for many newspapers and gardening magazines and his book, How to Make Your Garden Grow, was reprinted earlier in 2009.
Carol Klein
This season, Carol will be based in her Devon garden, sharing her experience with a group of novice gardeners and taking them through specialist techniques.
A lifelong plant lover and gardener, Carol originally trained as a fine artist and worked as a teacher before setting up her own nursery, Glebe Cottage Plants, 25 years ago. She began exhibiting at Royal Horticultural Society shows in 1990, has won gold medals at Hampton Court, Westminster and Malvern, and six medals at Chelsea. She joined the Gardeners' World team in 2005, although her very first appearance in the show was in 1989 when Geoff Hamilton visited Glebe Cottage.
Carol has also presented Open Gardens for the BBC and Grow your Own Veg which has inspired a series of related books. Her next book, Grow Your Own Garden, will appear in Spring 2010 and she is a regular contributor to The Guardian, The Lady and other newspapers and magazines.
Joe Swift
Throughout 2009, Joe will be showing some novice gardeners how to redesign their established garden, giving them advice and tips to demonstrate the principles of good design.
A professional garden designer, who runs his own company alongside his television work, Joe has been a regular presenter on Gardeners' World for 10 years now, so Greenacre will be the third TV plot he has worked on. He has also presented Open Gardens, Small Town Gardens and coverage of the RHS flower shows at Chelsea, Hampton Court and Tatton Park.
Joe writes for The Times weekend gardening section, and various gardening magazines and has published two books on getting the most out of gardening in cities, a subject he is passionate about. A recent convert to vegetable growing, Joe's latest book tackles the subject of getting to grips with cultivating your own food: Joe's Allotment: Planning and Planting a Productive Plot, available from online and high street retailers.
Alys Fowler
This season sees Alys join the main presenting team, where she's following community gardening projects in Birmingham and sharing some of her thrifty, ethical tips for growing flowers and vegetables.
Alys has been a gardener since her teens, and after leaving school trained with the Royal Horticultural Society, the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the New York Botanical Gardens and studied a masters degree in Society, Science and the Environment. She later worked as a journalist on Horticulture Week and Landscape Review and joined the Gardeners' World team first as a horticultural researcher and later as Head Gardener at the programme's Berryfields garden.
Alys's inspiration from urban gardening projects began during her time in New York. Much of the ethic, thrift and spirit that thrives in such settings is found in her work today. Alys contributes regularly to Gardens Illustrated, and her first book, The Thrifty Gardener was published in 2008.
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