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The entire second series of the popular drama. In 'Memory of Water', Rosemary and Laura are called to Lyvedon manor to restore the now derelict wall gardens by the request of the garden's owner Martin Frazer. In 'Orpheus in the Undergrowth', Rosemary and Laura are asked to design a memorial garden based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice for an old friend. In 'They Understand Me In Paris', Rosemary and Laura are called to Paris by Rosemary's old friend Dorothy, to catalogue the plants in the 150-year-old gardens at her Riviera Villa (Villa Galavany) in order for them to be opened to the public. In 'The Invisible Worm', Rosemary and Laura are called to Stagford Lodge Prep School to investigate the case of the newly planted roses dying, as well as extending the already planted rose garden. In 'The Gongoozlers', Gavin Patterson's TV Garden Makeover show is in need of a desperate boost of ratings so he hires yachtswoman Quinnie Dorell to present the show. In 'The Italian Rapscallion', Rosemary and Laura travel to Italy to prepare the gardens for Emma Standish's new Italian restaurant but find themselves behind with the work. In 'Swords into Ploughshares', Laura is shocked to hear from a news report that Rosemary has been shot dead whilst investigating a problem of dying plants at Engleton Park. Finally, in 'Up the Garden Path', Rosemary and Laura are called to Rowfield to find out the cause of a mysterious blight, which only seems to affect the plants from gardens competing in the local open day competition.
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Rosemary Boxer And Laura Thyme Are Back, Restoring Gardens And Catching Murderers
11 July 2007
Format:DVD
In the first episode of this second in the series, Rosemary Boxer (Felicity Kendal) and Laura Thyme (Pam Ferris) are engaged to restore the walled garden of a mansion belonging to barrister Walter Frazer. He arranges for cheap labor to help them, three inmates from a nearby prison. But when a stranger, before their eyes, jumps into the nearby swift-running river, the two professional garden experts and amateur sleuths find themselves solving more than how to fix a garden. In short order they're mixed up in a nasty case of murder, childhood loyalties that are still being kept, a buried memory box and some complicated relationships. It's all quite satisfying because Rosemary & Thyme are fine examples of that mystery mainstay, the cosy.
Cosies are to mysteries what tea and crumpets are to blood pudding...there's a very different taste involved. It's wise to remember, however, that the tea can be poisoned even more easily than the pudding. Cosies usually feature village or small town settings, good manners, gossip and indiscreet goings-on, a self-appointed detective or detectives who are of a certain age and usually female, often self-conscious puns for titles...and murder.
In the first series, Rosemary Boxer (Felicity Kendal), a botany biologist, had just lost her job at her university...let go by her ex-husband. Laura Thyme (Pam Ferris), had just seen her husband leave her for a younger woman. She's a former policewoman and an avid gardener. Rosemary and Thy...Laura...meet by chance and, with nothing better to do, agree to work together at an estate to save some ailing trees. They save the trees, solve a messy murder and decide to set up a business fixing and restoring gardens. Murders just seem to come along with their work.... Read more ›
Cosies are to mysteries what tea and crumpets are to blood pudding...there's a very different taste involved. It's wise to remember, however, that the tea can be poisoned even more easily than the pudding. Cosies usually feature village or small town settings, good manners, gossip and indiscreet goings-on, a self-appointed detective or detectives who are of a certain age and usually female, often self-conscious puns for titles...and murder.
In the first series, Rosemary Boxer (Felicity Kendal), a botany biologist, had just lost her job at her university...let go by her ex-husband. Laura Thyme (Pam Ferris), had just seen her husband leave her for a younger woman. She's a former policewoman and an avid gardener. Rosemary and Thy...Laura...meet by chance and, with nothing better to do, agree to work together at an estate to save some ailing trees. They save the trees, solve a messy murder and decide to set up a business fixing and restoring gardens. Murders just seem to come along with their work.... Read more ›
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By bernie
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Format:DVD
Finally a program that was built from scratch and not based on a book or writer. They can not do it wrong because this is it. Looks like there is more horticulture than in the Brother Cadfael series.
Two women, each have a Life changing experience just before the series starts. Soon they become friends. One a hands on gardener, with a law enforcement back ground Laura Thyme, (Pam Ferris), the other an academic horticulturist with an old four wheeler vehicle Rosemary Boxer (Felicity Kendal).
The programs are of the two trying to find out who dunnit and how. We do not get bogged down in love interests.
Each episode is unique in its approach. The only pattern I see is that it is like in the movie "A shot in the dark" where everyone is guilty except the maid. In this series there may not be a lit of murderers, however there are a lot of guilty people.
Well sit back and enjoy the view, smell the roses, and buy the series so you can watch again and again.
Two women, each have a Life changing experience just before the series starts. Soon they become friends. One a hands on gardener, with a law enforcement back ground Laura Thyme, (Pam Ferris), the other an academic horticulturist with an old four wheeler vehicle Rosemary Boxer (Felicity Kendal).
The programs are of the two trying to find out who dunnit and how. We do not get bogged down in love interests.
Each episode is unique in its approach. The only pattern I see is that it is like in the movie "A shot in the dark" where everyone is guilty except the maid. In this series there may not be a lit of murderers, however there are a lot of guilty people.
Well sit back and enjoy the view, smell the roses, and buy the series so you can watch again and again.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Maz
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
All I can say is "Why didn't they make more of these"? Pam Ferris was right, they shouldn't have made them all murder mysterys though!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
There are many ways how one can approach mystery stories. Her you find the soft, not bloody and not action overloaded way, but nevertheless intriguing and drawing you into the plot in the first few minutes. There are no hidden brother's cousin's sister who arrives five minutes before the murder and leaves and is discovered at the end. The stories develop in a convincing way. Rosemary & Thyme gain personality not just through her murder hunt, but through background mini-dramas of both character's past relationships and lives. I thoroughly enjoy each episode and can only recommend this DVD box.
Format:DVD
"Rosemary and Thyme" is what I like to call a modern cozy -- it's set in the current day, but has lots of quaint English villages, overgrown gardens and not-too-gory murders. And the complete second season is a thoroughly entertaining little mystery series, especially since Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris are brilliant as gardeners-cum-detectives.
The two-part "The Memory of Water" sees Rosemary (Kendal) and Laura (Ferris) being hired by a prominent barrister to restore an Elizabethan garden on his property. A day after arriving, Rosemary sees his cousin commit suicide by leaping into a dangerous river.... and then later she sees him strolling through the village market. Dirty secrets, mistaken identity and sordid affairs have to be unearthed.
In "Orpheus in the Undergrowth," their latest job is disrupted by vandalism and a suspicious death, even as Laura tries to reconnect with her estranged daughter Helena. "They Understand Me in Paris" when they go to France to help Rosemary's pal Dorothy with a vast formal garden... only to find Dorothy's hubby bludgeoned to death, and a valuable piece of silver missing. And "The Invisible Worm" turns when they are called on to save a dying rose garden at a posh prep school... and find a teacher harpooned through the heart.
"The Gongoozlers" hurls Rosemary and Laura into the world of reality TV -- only for Rosemary to take a near-fatal tumble off a platform, just as a dead body turns up in the nearby pool. So Laura teams up with brusque TV host Quinnie Dorell to find the murderer. "The Italian Rapscallion" has the girls going to the Mediterranean to help a friend open a restaurant, and stumbling across a hotbed of sexual scandal, criminal secrets and dead bodies.... Read more ›
The two-part "The Memory of Water" sees Rosemary (Kendal) and Laura (Ferris) being hired by a prominent barrister to restore an Elizabethan garden on his property. A day after arriving, Rosemary sees his cousin commit suicide by leaping into a dangerous river.... and then later she sees him strolling through the village market. Dirty secrets, mistaken identity and sordid affairs have to be unearthed.
In "Orpheus in the Undergrowth," their latest job is disrupted by vandalism and a suspicious death, even as Laura tries to reconnect with her estranged daughter Helena. "They Understand Me in Paris" when they go to France to help Rosemary's pal Dorothy with a vast formal garden... only to find Dorothy's hubby bludgeoned to death, and a valuable piece of silver missing. And "The Invisible Worm" turns when they are called on to save a dying rose garden at a posh prep school... and find a teacher harpooned through the heart.
"The Gongoozlers" hurls Rosemary and Laura into the world of reality TV -- only for Rosemary to take a near-fatal tumble off a platform, just as a dead body turns up in the nearby pool. So Laura teams up with brusque TV host Quinnie Dorell to find the murderer. "The Italian Rapscallion" has the girls going to the Mediterranean to help a friend open a restaurant, and stumbling across a hotbed of sexual scandal, criminal secrets and dead bodies.... Read more ›
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