THE GARDENERS GROW UP is the first CD of The Gardeners. It came after the release of the singles 'Words in the Wind' and 'Christiane' both obtained good local acceptance. The quintet of Welwyn Garden City, that soon if would turn quartet due to Nick Willys's short participation, passed the first semester of 1999 recording in the studio given by EMI in Highside Road, London. This album was part of a hazardous contract between the group and the recording in that case THE GARDENERS GROW UP reached the level of 125 thousand sold copies (it arrived to 150 thousand) it would be signed a definitive contract with Virgin, other subsidiary of the British recording. Even though of not counting with a support of the recording, the disc had a good reception on the part of the public that had opportunity of know it because in the most times band shows arrived in the cities before the album. With the national release of the two singles presented previously, The Gardeners began to get larger projection mainly the double Morgan/Stevens, responsible by 13 of the 14 tracks of this CD. The only exception is the ballad romantic/ironic 'Christiane' written by the Hertfordshire�s humorists trio The Therrorists composed by Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic. The humorous line is accompanied by other songs of smaller prominence how '(What?) In' and 'Therere Therere' but what prevails are lover songs based in the typical pop-rock original from commercial radios. It is this case of the hit 'Words in the Wind' and of 'The Girl of the Window', 'Hey, Come On' and 'A Woman As Her'. Some tracks sound a little heavier as the politic 'Gospel Song', the venecian 'The Lady and the Tramp' and the experimental 'The Strange Sounds', only in that the group left the format guitar-bass-drums and seems to demonstrate that possesses more qualities than presented them in this album.