"In 1978, she and her husband Neil (who sounds completely splendid) settled in and bought Glebe Cottage, which came with an acre of rough grass, weeds and brambles. Creating a garden there, the first proper one she’d ever had, transformed her life. ‘As much as I made this garden, this garden made me,’ she writes. She discovered she had a knack for propagating plants and started selling them at country markets before creating her own nursery, while also raising her two daughters. Soon she began exhibiting at shows and then was asked to design a garden at the . Before long, a TV producer spotted her potential and she got a job presenting the show Real Gardens. Klein first appeared on in 1989 when the late, great did a feature on Glebe Cottage."
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