Rosemary & Thyme Rosemary & Thyme Rosemary & Thyme is a British television cozy mystery series starring Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris as gardening detectives Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme. The show began on ITV in 2003. The third series ended in August 2007. The theme is murder mysteries in the setting of professional gardening jobs. It was created by Brian Eastman to entertain his wife, Christabel Albery, who is an avid gardener. The show was directed by Brian Farnham (10 episodes, 2003–2006), Simon Langton (8 episodes, 2004–2006), and Tom Clegg (3 episodes, 2003). Clive Exton, who helped create the show, contributed 10
Pam Ferris played motherly Ma Larkin in the ITV series "The Darling Buds of May", which ran from 1991 to 1993. She has also acted in a succession of television dramas, including "Meantime", in which she played the Cockney mother of Phil Daniels and Tim Roth, "Connie", "Hardwicke House", "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit", "Where the Heart Is" and "Paradise Heights". From 2003 to 2006, she played the gardening sleuth, Laura Thyme, in "Rosemary & Thyme". Her roles in costume dramas include parts in television adaptations of "Middlemarch", "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall", "Our Mutual Friend", "The Turn of the Screw",