OHMYGOSSIP — Kate Garraway says gardening has given her hope amid her husband’s coronavirus battle.
The ‘Good Morning Britain’ host – whose partner Derek Draper has been hospitalised for seven months after being diagnosed with Covid-19 in March – has opened up about how planting bulbs has helped her and their children Darcey, 14, and 11-year-old Billy.
She told BBC’s ‘Gardeners’ World’: “When you’re living on a knife-edge, doing something that gives you a future just helps with a sense of progress.
“You can’t think short-term in a garden, you have to plan. You have to have hope. By planting something and believing Derek will see it … that gives us a sense of future.”
The 53-year-old presenter had decided to plant bulbs because they are more “long term”.
She explained: “It was rather sad because the radishes came, they’re one of Derek’s favourite vegetables, and we ate them and he still wasn’t better.
“So I then thought, we’ve got to go more long term, planting things that were going to take longer to bear fruit.
“And I’d say, ‘Dad will be better by then’… And of course now that it’s been so long, we’ve got a huge basket of bulbs, so that when dad comes home, the place will be full of colour.”
Derek, 53, was rushed to the hospital and put into an induced coma in March after testing positive for the virus.
He has since tested negative but must remain in hospital due to the damaging impact the virus has had on his body.
Kate recently admitted she sympathises with people who are “fed up” of the pandemic, but she called for people to do their “best” after some have snubbed social distancing and ditched their face masks.
She said: “I have huge sympathy with people who are fed up with it [coronavirus]. I think if you haven’t been touched by it directly, but your livelihood has been devastated, then of course you are going to get frustrated.
“It makes me tempted to show them a picture of Derek in his current state and say, ‘You don’t want this in your life.’
“I think there is huge confusion but we know we should be wearing a mask and social distancing. We have to do our best.
“There are so many shades of grey. If we stick to basics we can hopefully get through it.”

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