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Kim Wilde reports for Better Homes and Gardens

1980s pop icon Kim Wilde, is a guest reporter on Better Homes and Gardens annual Chelsea Flower Show special.

Kim Wilde at ChelseaKids in America, You Keep Me Hangin’ On, Cambodia …..1980s pop icon Kim Wilde, is a guest reporter on Better Homes and Gardens annual Chelsea Flower Show special tonight.

You will also see the award-winning Trailfinders Australian Garden.

Wilde is a well-known garden designer in the UK and won three prizes at the 2005 Chelsea Flower Show for her Cumbrian Fellside courtyard garden: a Gold Medal, a Best in Show in the Courtyard Garden category and the BBC Audience Choice Award.

She returned to Chelsea this week to file a special report for Better Homes and Gardens on the small Artisan and Fresh gardens.

“I was delighted to have been asked by Better Homes and Gardens to go to Chelsea with them, especially in this very special Centenary year. It was a real pleasure and honour to work with one of Australia’s national treasures, the legend that is Graham Ross.”

Wilde also got to meet the award-winning Australian team from Fleming’s Nurseries.

“I was thrilled that the Trailfinders Australian Garden won Best in Show. I had great fun meeting the Oz team who created the wonderful spectacle. Those boys work hard but they sure know how to play hard and I’m still disappointed with myself for not taking them up on their offer of lager for breakfast.”

One of Wilde’s highlights from her visit to Chelsea this year was the ‘What Will We Leave?’ NSPCC garden, a celebration of nostalgic childhood memories.

“It had a lovely fairy-tale quality, with a mix of wildflowers including Honesty, Bluebells, Buttercups and Ox-eye daisies. A collection of vintage toys decorated the rustic treehouse and a small pool at the front was decorated with hand painted pebbles by children. I was reminded of my own garden which has a similar treehouse and also wildflowers. It was my children who inspired me out into the garden in the first place, and they who inspired my book ‘Gardening with Children’.”

7pm Friday on Seven.

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