The Singing Gardener

In , Wilde signed a new record deal with Sony Music Germany. The label released her eleventh studio album, Come Out and Play on 17 August, [25] with "Lights Down Low" preceding that as lead single. Wilde's twelfth studio album, Snapshots , was released on 26 August and features cover versions of songs hand-picked from the last five decades. A double release of " It's Alright " and " Sleeping Satellite " was released on 19 August as the lead single.

Two further singles failed to reach the chart. Kim toured in support of the album in Germany in March Wilde released her next studio album, Wilde Winter Songbook in November While sitting in her garden she noticed something odd about the sky. As she beheld, there was a huge bright light behind a cloud. She curiously walked down the grass to track the source of the light and what she noticed was that the light was swiftly moving back and forth. She thought about it every day and it gave her the idea for her new album. Wilde holds the record for being the most-charted British solo female act of the s, with seventeen UK Top 40 hit singles throughout the decade including her duets with Junior Giscombe and Mel Smith.

A number of artists have performed covers of Kim Wilde songs, ranging from pop and rock to dance and death metal versions.

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Wilde has provided inspiration for other artists, including Charlotte Hatherley , who wrote a song about her entitled "Kim Wilde", and included it on her debut album, Grey Will Fade. In it the main character Marji, a young Iranian girl, sings "Kids in America" in the streets of the Iranian capital. Also, when her parents go on holiday in Turkey, they buy a poster of Kim Wilde and smuggle it into Tehran for Marji. Marji pins the poster on her bedroom's wall and practises emulating Wilde. During her first pregnancy , an old interest in gardening resurfaced and she attended Capel Manor college to learn about horticulture , so as to create a garden for her children.

As a celebrity, she was asked by Channel 4 to act as a designer for their programme Better Gardens. She has also created gardens for Flower Shows across the UK and received, with David Fountain, an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for successfully moving from Belgium and replanting the world's largest tree in January Wilde has written two books as part of her gardening career. The first, Gardening with Children , was released on 4 April by Collins publishers. Wilde broadened her eco-friendly image by taking on advertising jobs for various 'green' companies.

She wrote infomercials for Bold [45] and Timotei, [46] and in , she started advertising 'green kitchens' for Magnet. Wilde currently presents Secret Songs on Magic On 1 September , Wilde married her co-star in Tommy , Hal Fowler, and expressed a desire to have children as soon as possible.

As of , Kim's brother Marty is a landscape gardener [53] and her sister, Roxanne, is a backing singer for Kylie Minogue. I am very lucky when I read of others pond misfortunes that mine has not given me one second of trouble since I finished it, it is healthy and happy with pretty much no help from me and is the easiest gardening I have ever done in that I don't do anything to keep it looking nice.

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What they say about bringing wildlife into the garden is so true, and I have been delighted by the frogs and dragonflies and other things I can't name. I am kind of lacking in pond photos though but here is a rather stark one from when I was just finishing it. Another big change has come in the form of me taking the big decision to lose all the grass in my back garden.

It was not a decision taken lightly but in the end I realised that although it looked beautiful for about 2 months of the year, the other 10 it was a muddy, weedy mess and I had to put wellies on just to pop outside to put washing out. So I set to learning how to lay patios. Yet more back breaking work but it was worth it as I can go out in my slippers now, and although I sometimes miss the look of all that green it is more practical and still looks nice.

Posted by The Singing Gardener at Sunday, 17 May Pond. I've wanted a pond since I was about 6 years old. My mother tells me how at that tender age in 'my' part of their back garden I once dug a small dip, put in a black bin liner and filled it with water then sprinkled some leaves on, you could call this my first pond although I can't imagine it was very successful and only probably lasted 5 days before they discreetly removed it. So my pond plan has developed a lot over the next 40 odd years - as these things do. I am now going to include a bridge over it, this will allow me to make the pond slightly bigger.

I think the view of the little Summer house with a bridge over a pond to it will be rather lovely. The thought of all that digging is a little daunting, but after all that is just hard work and not exactly requiring great skill. I have, as is my nature, been doing my research and decided that a good quality butyl rubber liner will be the best option for me, both from the point of view of price and versatility, that way I can go to the exact shape that I want.

Today I started the process putting the plan down on paper. The raised bed will come out - it has not been a huge success and as it went in before the summer house, it has always been in a slightly annoying place so I'm not sorry to lose it. So between the pond and the summer house will be a gravel garden making access far better and reducing yet further my lawn area fine by me, there'll be none left soon at this rate!

Meticulous planning has always been my best way of success in the garden so here is the first draft of the plan artist I'm not: Wednesday, 8 April Requiem for an Apple Tree.

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I've had to cut down a tree today, it is a bit sad because it was one of the first things I did when I moved in here, planted an apple tree. It felt like a real occasion when I did this Being rather inexperienced when I first came here I did think it was odd that the tree only ever had about 20 leaves, never flowered and didn't produce one apple, but I thought that perhaps these things took a while to establish.

It was only when my mother was here earlier today that she pointed out that it was riddled with canker. Eventually, they got their fences sorted, and planted successful shelter belts, which include a mix of natives and banksias for the birds, especially tui, fantails and silver eyes. However, one of their biggest challenges is erosion. We don't need to go into town to get ripped off for veggies.

We've learnt how it grow it relatively efficiently and it means we can feed a lot of people," he says. In the house, she holds a huge purple kumara with veins like a human being.

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On this largely self-sustainable property their growing methods include crop rotation, seed preservation, companion planting and mulching. They have a flourishing orchard of many fruit varieties, including bountiful citrus trees, and large veggie gardens. She has a strong Christian faith, which developed after her parents died and she found herself in a place with a complete lack of joy, untouched by beautiful days, singing birds and he glorious landscape around her.

She followed her friend's advice and her belief in God was cemented by Evan's near-death escape from falling off the cliff on an all-terrain vehicle. It was a miracle," she says. When she's in the garden, Rosanna talks to God a lot. Walking towards the orchard on a road made by Evan, Mt Taranaki cuts a triangle against a clear blue sky. We wander past nikau palms grown from seed and Rosanna points to one: Under the apple trees, she deters pests by planting nasturtiums, other aromatics and blue flowers for the bees. She sees movement behind the trees: It's like Alice in Wonderland.

We meander and munch. Rosanna offers a crisp and fiery nasturtium flower to crunch, borage flowers that taste like cucumber and parsley to nibble. Look how the light plays on the leaf surface; it's like a tapestry. As hunter gatherers, they also enjoy finding wild food, including wood ear fungus, which she includes in a chilli con carne featuring her own-grown serrano peppers. During the October 26 to November 4 festival, she will have her preserves and pickles for sale and people will be able to see lambs and baby calves in the fields.

On the first weekend of the annual event, the Taranaki Land Girls will be holding a market day at Pukemiro. To get to the stage of being ready for a festival has required a huge amount of work.