Rosemary & Thyme
Housewife and former policewoman, Laura Thyme, loses her husband to a younger woman. Meanwhile, Rosemary Boxer, a university lecturer in horticulture, loses her job. A sudden death and a love of gardening bring the pair together. They join forces to start their own business. But death and mystery seem to follow them wherever they go. The gardeners find themselves acting as amateur sleuths in a series of very cozy mysteries set amongst the stunning gardens of Europe....
- 2003-2006
- 3 seasons
- Suspense, Drama
- TV-PG
Housewife and former policewoman, Laura Thyme, loses her husband to a younger woman. Meanwhile, Rosemary Boxer, a university lecturer in horticulture, loses her job. A sudden death and a love of gardening bring the pair together. They join forces to start their own business. But death and mystery seem to follow them wherever they go. The gardeners find themselves acting as amateur sleuths in a series of very cozy mysteries set amongst the stunning gardens of Europe....
Season 3 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2005 - 2006
Episode 1
The Cup of Silence
Mon, Aug 4, 2008 70 mins
Stuart Blackton owns and operates a posh hotel and restaurant in a converted manor house on an expansive estate and is trying hard to impress influential restaurant critic Angus Fairley. The estate is bordered by a winery owned by Blackton's brother Ben, and although the restaurant is the vintner's best customer, no love is lost between the siblings. Blackton has been struggling to stay out of the red, but Angus' influence and a five star review will insure the hotel's success. Rosemary, an old friend of Fairley's, has been hired along with Laura to help weed the vineyard, and the desperate Blackton asks her to find out if the review will be favorable. Although Angus promises Laura that a glowing review is forthcoming, he never gets a chance to write it and is found dead in his room from an apparent heart attack... with a bottle of the local red wine beside him.
Episode 2
In a Monastery Garden
47 mins
Laura and Rosemary take up residence at a cathedral in order to restore its herb garden for a millennium celebration. They are soon swept up in the intrigue surrounding the inhabitants, including a newly in-charge deacon who is looking into past financial improprieties, his young wife and her younger daughter, the daughter's boyfriend, who has a criminal record, the pair who run the Cathedral gift shop and may be skimming the profits, and the newly crippled dean. When the Catherdral's patron saint's stone statue becomes an instrument of murder, Rosemary and Laura discover that the old adage about bad things happening in threes seems to be coming true.
Episode 3
Seeds of Time
47 mins
While cleaning up the garden of a soon to be sold house, Rosemary and Laura discover a mysterious foreigner dead in the garden. Suspecting that he was interested in the famous seed collection kept inside the house, Rosemary and Laura begin to wonder why the seeds are so popular.
Episode 4
Agua Cadaver
47 mins
An old flame of Rosemary's, a noted scholar of Spanish Islamic history, contracts with the girls to help him restore an old Moorish garden on his estate in Spain but murder and suicide prove to be distractions.
Episode 5
Three Legs Good
47 mins
Rosemary and Laura work on re-planting the historic Regent's Park garden, filled with its colorful flowers and an array of permanent visitors. But hidden amongst these frequenters of the park are many secrets soon to be revealed, all mysteriously connected to a three-legged dog.
Episode 6
The Gooseberry Bush
47 mins
While creating a memorial garden for a woman's soon-to-be-husband's mother, Laura and Rosemary discover an abandoned baby boy. Believing he is the illegitimate son of one of the women in the family, the gardeners come across many surprises, including a dead man.
Episode 7
Racquet Espanol
47 mins
Rosemary and Laura and Laura's son Matthew head to Spain where Matthew will participate in a tennis competition while Rosemary and Laura create a trophy garden. In the midst of their trip, a fellow tennis player is murdered leaving the gardeners with a mystery to solve.
Episode 8
Enter Two Gardeners
47 mins
While gardening for a soon to perform amateur drama theatre, Rosemary and Laura become eye witnesses to a accidental death on the stage. Then, Laura is offered a part in the play leaving Rosemary to finish the garden, and solve the mystery of course!
