very exciting day today cuz today is the
recording of Alan Titchmarsh the
glorious garden we've kind of been
waiting for this day but we've kind of
been terrified this is all missile
kicked off and Deb is saying to me now I
really would like to write something for
you you don't have signatures at a
secure phone she's agreed to do the
program I was on on television was
already underway so that was done she
said well she discovered I wrote poems
verse and said well what about doing
some about plants and flowers and
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debbie is persistent if you learn one
thing about Debbie Wiseman is she's like
a terrier or a dog with a bone blesser
thankfully so I just sort of jotted some
verses down and we did 12 to 12 verses
different flowers and plants from cedar
and hope to peony and sweet peas which
I've written and recorded and we are
here today tear Debbie's music because
this album will be me reading my verse
and then Debbie's music which typifies
that particular plant or flower whether
it's a majestic sea horn
so I can't tell you exactly and the idea
was you need to have the characteristics
or the personalities of the flowers as
well as well as the poetry and Island
gave me a kind of little breakdown of
what the particular personalities of
each for our world change plants and
that was hugely helpful and I had that
stacked on my piano as I was writing a
music it was lovely because you kept
collecting I haven't quite got the
personalities that sits about the
personality of the flower not just
experience yeah and that some music
tells that story and of course music is
so perfect and being able to do that
you can create a character
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Kazu pestilence of war triumphant still
today Oh see though with your sturdy
frame
let those who gazing or you know see
there is very ground and the English oak
has got such a history so the poems very
and that the English oak is all is a
very patriotic poem really about what
oak has done for us not just making the
ships that sailed the seas and fought
our Wars and kept us free but then they
were turned into planks and beams that
made stately homes and houses so the oak
is really rooted in the ground and it
becomes that and then funny things like
the peony I have always thought of as
this rather powdered lady a bit like
Barbara Cartland so there are voices in
the poems as well and witch hazel is a
story told by a maiden aunt so I get to
do silly voices as well it's not alter
this area it'd be great if when people
listen to the album it helps them
perhaps understand a little bit more
about the plant or flower helps them get
to know them a little bit more maybe
makes them want to go and plant one in
the garden or look at one in a slightly
different way and listen to the music I
think people who love gardening who love
plants and flowers hopefully this will
be the music and little verse that they
take into the get their garden in the
summer the album comprises me reading my
verses in whichever voice I think that
particular plant has followed by the
piece of music that debbie is composed
to turn the personality of each of these
flowers and plants into music it is
about personality and the first time I
heard it it was incredibly moving I
thought comes there is that quietly oh
my I just
writing these words or different meters
different rhymes did some comedy some
moving and then coming it over to
Debian's and waiting not really long
she's very quick very good and then it
coming back in it's kind of what have we
created here I've never I never imagined
that it would be so much to each plant
and flower sort of musically interpret
there's a huge amount within each one to
tell the story musically so it's just
excited and can't wait to hear the
orchestra bring them to life today we
get here it with the real thing 70 piece
Orchestra the best musicians in town
it's gonna be thrilling it's my first
album it's very scary
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