United by a common love of all growing things -- and linked together by their two green thumbs -- Rosemary Boxer (Felicity Kendal) and Laura Thyme (Pam Ferris) meet for the first time as Rosemary & Thyme launches its first season. No sooner has their friendship congealed than our two heroines set about to investigate the "accidental" death of Laura's friend Sam, which is somehow connected to Rosemary's investigation of a mysterious virus that is killing all the trees on the estate of Rosemary's chum Daniel Kellaway. Shortly after cracking this case on behalf of the authorities, Rosemary and Laura set up their own gardening shop, but somehow they can't resist doing a bit of amateur sleuthing on the side. In subsequent season one episodes, the ladies look into a mystery inaugurated by the discovery of a horse's skeleton; probe into the curiously erratic "performance" of a water fountain in a fashionable health spa; try to figure out why the campus of a private university is having trouble raising a decent lawn (Could it have something to do with that corpse whose throat has been cut?); they unearth an insidious plot to purchase property via illegal and possibly homicidal means; and in the season's final installment, Rosemary and Laura are confronted with the puzzle of "The Tree of Death." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
