How Does Your Garden Grow?

Episode aired Jan 6, 1991
TV-14
50m

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

1.6K

YOUR RATING

Catherine Russell and Anne Stallybrass in Thám Tử Poirot (1989)

Agatha Christie's Poirot: How Does Your Garden Grow?

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At a flower show, an older woman in a wheelchair approaches Poirot, gives him an empty seed packet, and asks him to visit her the next day. When Poirot arrives the next day, the woman is dea... Read allAt a flower show, an older woman in a wheelchair approaches Poirot, gives him an empty seed packet, and asks him to visit her the next day. When Poirot arrives the next day, the woman is dead, murdered with poison.At a flower show, an older woman in a wheelchair approaches Poirot, gives him an empty seed packet, and asks him to visit her the next day. When Poirot arrives the next day, the woman is dead, murdered with poison.

Director
- Brian Farnham
Writers
- Andrew Marshall
- Agatha Christie
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.6/10

1.6K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Brian Farnham
Writers
- Andrew Marshall
- Agatha Christie
Stars

17User reviews

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The red 'WTF' on the Chelsea Flower Show ticket means that the ticket is for admission on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday only. It was the cheaper ticket for the end days of the show, when the flowers were usually past their best.

Goofs
"Regimirov" is not a correct last name for a Russian woman. Most Russian family names originated from patronymics, that is, that father's name usually formed by adding the adjective suffix -ova or -eva for a female. (Peter or Petrov, Ilya or Ilyov for sons, Petrova or Ilyova for daughters). Contemporary patronymics have a -na for female names. For instance, if a single woman's father's last name was Ivanov or Petrov, her last name would be Ivanova or Petrova. So technically, Katrina's last name should have been Regimirova.

Quotes
Chief Inspector Japp: We're doing our own little test right now. Down at the mortuary. Perhaps you'd rather wait in the taxi, Miss Lemon.
Miss Lemon: No, thank you. I did help in the hospital morgue during the war.
Hercule Poirot: More filing, Miss Lemon?
Miss Lemon: Mister Poirot!

User reviews17

Review

Featured review

8/10

Interesting and intriguing

Poirot is at a flower show when he is approached by an elderly lady in a wheelchair, Amelia Barrowby. She anxiously gives Poirot an empty seed packet and asks him to visit her the next day. Poirot does visit her the next day but is too late - she is dead, poisoned. Suspicion immediately falls on Ms Barrowby's Russian assistant, Katrina Reiger, who is now nowhere to be found.

Quite interesting and intriguing. The murderer is not obvious and there are a few decent twists and red herrings along the way. The conclusion is quite animated, and comical.

Nice sub-plot involving Hastings and Miss Lemon switching roles. Hasting proves that he is naive even when dealing with simple things like paying bills.