Monday, March 06, 2006
A Year at Kew
I've been watching recently a BBC show called "A Year at Kew". So far, there are two years worth of the series available on DVD from the BBC at amazon.co.uk.
It's not available in the US (yet), and the DVD's are PAL encoded. Amazon claims they're not region coded, but it may or may not work on your DVD player.
This is a really engaging series. Basically, it tells stories about maintaining the gardens and glasshouses, plus some of the overseas projects that Kew coordinates, including seed collecting expeditions for the Millenium Seedbank. You get to meet a lot of the people working at Kew and see behind the scenes at their special events. At last - there's a reality show for plant geeks.
It's a great show if you're into botanical gardens, glasshouses, or botanical travel.
12 episodes in two disks per season. Highly recommended.
