Outspoken, forthright and always entertaining, Guy Cooper and Gordon Taylor, garden designers extraordinaires, travel around the gardens of Britain - the traditional, the eccentric and the contemporary - in a dashing 1960s Alvis sports car, talking in their informed, provocative and witty way about the unusual and interesting elements of design they have found.
They visit a dazzling range of gardens in Buckinghamshire, East Anglia, Yorkshire, the Heart of England, the West Country and Scotland, holding forth authoritatively on, among others, spectacular creations of Capability Brown and Humphrey Repton, a sculpture garden in Devon, herb growers in Hereford and a brave new twenty-first century garden in Norfolk.
They meet people who have invested every spare moment in their gardens and are as passionate about gardening as they are themselves. Their enthusiasm leads to differences of opinion, differences that Cooper and Taylor are not shy to express. They speak their minds, drawing not just on their own design experience and contemporary ideas but also on our heritage of garden design.
'The Curious Gardeners' is a very personal tour through the length and breadth of the land, allowing these two innovative designers to revel in the glory of the country's most outstanding gardens - both the truly grand and the wonderfully individual.
