Carol Klein is in Bristol and Staffordshire in the Open Gardens going our on Monday 5th November. Stunning Abbots Leigh House on the outskirts of Bristol is home to Becky and Tim Bretell. The vast garden is centred around an imposing cedar which oversees many different features including a pergola walkway, a rose garden, a canal, fruit and vegetable garden and a brand new wildflower meadow. It has a few problems though, to challenge Carol - one being an alley of tall Cyprus trees that have started to lean and a wildflower meadow that is so new it just looks like a field. Carol is there to help them turn this around so they will hopefully get accepted into the Yellow Book. In Staffordshire Liz Forster is creating a cottage garden around 150 year old Moss Cottage. It is a working garden brimming with herbaceous plants, shrubs and fruit trees and designed with wild life in mind. But, though pretty, the garden is not outstanding and she desperately needs to add a lot more interest into otherwise drab looking beds. With Carol on hand can she metamorphasize her garden and bring it up to the necessary standard to be accepted?

Open Gardens - Abbots Leigh House and Moss Cottage - goes out on Monday 5th November at 3.15pm on BBC TWO