Carol Ann Klein VMH (born 24 June 1945)[1] is an English gardening expert, who also works as a television presenter and newspaper columnist.

She aspired to art school but her father was opposed and she secured a job as a retail assistant at the Kendal Milne department store in Manchester.

[2] Klein originally trained as a fine artist and spent many years teaching art in schools and colleges.

Each week the programme looked at a different group of crop plants or techniques suitable for home gardening.

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

"[10] Her show garden at the festival was divided into six main habitats: wetland, woodland, hedgerow, meadow, exposed mountain and seaside, plus a small vegetable patch.

[15] In 2011 Klein closed her nursery business, based at her home at Chittlehamholt, near Umberleigh in Devon, after a dispute with her neighbour.