Kim Wilde was born on 18 November 1960 in Chiswick, West London

At the age of eight, Kim moved with her family to the Hertfordshire village of Tewin where she attended the local Primary School, before moving on to Presdales School in Ware.

In 1979 Kim completed a one-year foundation course at St Albans College of Art & Design as a precursor to an Art Degree but, in 1980, she signed to Mickie Most’s RAK Records and her first single release, Kids In America, was to change her life. This worldwide hit paved the way for a recording career which yielded ten hit albums and in excess of thirty hit singles, bringing success in every major record market. Highlights included performing to over 2 million people on a five month European stadium tour with Michael Jackson and an American Number One with You Keep Me Hangin’ On.

In 1983 Kim was voted Best British Female Singer at the prestigious BPI (Brit) Awards and has received nominations on two further occasions.

In 1994 a brief appearance as stand-in co-presenter of Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast proved an enjoyable diversion, whilst in 1995 Kim made her West End stage debut playing the female lead for twelve months in a successful production of the musical, TOMMY

After a music career which spanned two decades, Kim’s love for gardening - which had it’s origins in her move to Hertfordshire as a small child - began to exert more influence in her life in the early 1990’s when she returned to Hertfordshire and embarked upon renovating a 16th Century barn. Participation in a horticultural course at Capel Manor whilst pregnant with her son Harry, now 9, further fuelled her interest and what began as perhaps an ambitious attempt to provide fresh fruit and vegetables for her family has resulted in a passionate affair. Indirectly, it also lead to an invitation to appear as a guest designer on ITV’s Better Gardens (transmitted from January 2000). Subsequent gardening-led television appearances have included two series of the BBC’s Garden Invaders - in which she appeared as resident designer - co-presentation of the BBC’s daytime coverage of The Chelsea Flower Show, The Great Garden Guide, This Morning and GMTV.
 
Keen to broaden her knowledge, Kim returned to Capel Manor during 2001 and 2002 for a City & Guilds Phase II Course in Planting & Planting Design, graduating in the Summer of ‘02.

In addition to her work within the broadcast media, Kim was Prima Magazine’s resident gardening columnist for three years from 2000 and wrote a monthly column for Bella Magazine throughout 2003. In July 2002 she became a weekly columnist in The Guardian’s Weekend section - a position she retained until resigning in March 2004 - and has contributed ad hoc features to publications as diverse as Elle Decoration and Gardens Made Easy on a freelance basis

In July 2001 Kim co-designed with David Fountain a show garden at the prestigious RHS Tatton Hall Flower Show. Based upon Alice Through The Looking Glass, the scheme was a joint venture with Countryside Properties plc and the ambitious project was rewarded with a Gold Medal and ‘Best In Show’. A further collaboration on a ‘Lord of The Rings’ garden saw Kim collect a Silver Medal at the BBC Gardeners World Exhibition in June 2002 and another Silver at Tatton 2002, and since 2002 has designed gardens at three successive appearances at the Holker Hall Festival in Cumbria.

In early 2004 Kim worked on a permanent Show Garden at Springfields Festival Gardens in Spalding, Lincs. Kim's garden, titled 'A Lifetime Ahead' was co-designed with Richard Holmes, and took its place alongside four other show gardens  -including designs by Chris Beardshaw and Stephen Woodhams - when the scheme opened in May 2004. The Lifetime Ahead garden won a BALI award in the summer of 2004.

Kim's debut as a designer at RHS Chelsea 2005 - with the 'Cumbrian Fellside Garden', co-designed with Richard Lucas - proved to be a tremendous success with the garden collecting a Gold Medal, Best In Category and BBC People's Choice Award.

Kim's first book, Gardening With Children, was published in 2004 to critical acclaim, and her second, The First-Time Gardener, was published by Harper Collins in April 2006.

Kim lives in Hertfordshire with her husband, Hal Fowler an actor and producer, and their two children, Harry, 10, and Rose, 8.