‘After Derek’s illness could our garden help improve our health and wellbeing?’ Kate Garraway reveals how the healing power of plants has helped her during her husband’s two-year Covid battle
- Kate Garraway has turned to her garden after her husband, Derek, fell ill
- She said the medicinal plants and herbs in the garden ‘improve our health’
- Her revelations will air on Alan Titchmarsh’s Love Your Garden tomorrow night
After a tumultuous two years for her and her family, Kate Garraway has found solace in creating a garden full of health and happiness.
The TV presenter, whose husband Derek Draper, 54, has been left seriously unwell after he caught Covid in 2020, said his illness has made her view their garden in ‘a whole different way’.
As a result, she turned to medicinal plants and herbs in an attempt to ‘improve our health and wellbeing’.
Kate Garraway has found solace in creating a garden full of health and happiness
Miss Garraway shows off the results of her experiment in a special episode of Alan Titchmarsh’s Love Your Garden tomorrow night
Miss Garraway shows off the results of her experiment in a special episode of Alan Titchmarsh’s Love Your Garden tomorrow night. She says in the programme: ‘We want to make the garden into something more than just space to be. I really want to grow some plants that will actually improve our health and wellbeing.’
In the garden, Miss Garraway, 54, has created three different beds of plants – medicinal, tea and aromatherapy.
She added: ‘If you look past the initial beauty of the plants, it can give you so much more.
‘I haven’t quite proved you can grow yourself well but I think I’ve definitely learnt you can grow yourself happier.’
The TV presenter, whose husband Derek Draper, 54, has been left seriously unwell after he caught Covid in 2020, said his illness has made her view their garden in ‘a whole different way’
Mr Draper spent 374 days in hospital after contracting Covid in March 2020. The former political lobbyist was put into an induced coma for ten weeks, with the family repeatedly told that he may not survive.
His body had been completely ravaged by the disease and doctors who treated him said he was the most seriously ill patient to have survived the virus.
He returned to his family home in north London in April last year.
Love Your Garden: Grow Your Own Special airs on ITV1 tomorrow at 8pm.
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