Kate Garraway details heartbreaking home plans for sick husband he has never seen

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Kate Garraway, 53, has opened up about the changes she has made to her home during lockdown to give herself a sense of “hope”, while her husband Derek Draper, 53, battles on in hospital after being admitted with coronavirus in March. The Smooth Radio presenter revealed she has to “invest in a future” while her partner remains in intensive care.

Dad will be better by then

Kate Garraway

Kate has detailed how she and their children Darcey, 14, and Billy, 11, have been coping at home while Derek has been in hospital for seven months.

The ITV host has turned her garden into a “source of solace” after her other spouse became ill earlier this year.

Kate has been planting bulbs in her garden to give her family a sense of hope during the devastating time.

“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,” she began.

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“So I then thought, we’ve got to go more long-term, planting things that were going to take longer to bear fruit.”

Kate went on to reveal that despite their efforts for him, Derek is yet to see any of it as he is too unwell to leave hospital.

She recalled: “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.”

The TV presenter then opened up about why this space at home is “important” for the three of them now more than ever.

“When you’re living day-to-day on a knife-edge, doing something that gives you a future just helps with a sense of progress, where there is actually none from the direct situation,” she added.

“It’s been the most important space for us. It’s been a place to find joy, hope, go a bit crazy and feel a bit unleashed in a stifling physical and emotional time that we’ve all lived through.”

Kate added that having a “plan” has helped her think more positively about the future for her family.

“It just gives you that sense of positive moving forward,” she shared.

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“You can’t think short-term in a garden, you have to plan. You have to have hope. You have to invest in a future.”

She explained: “You don’t plant something unless you believe it’s going to come up, so by planting something and believing Derek will see it when it comes up, that gives us a sense of future.”

Kate also spoke on Gardeners’ World – set to air tonight – about how lovely it was to sit in their garden of hope while FaceTiming her partner.

“I’d sit in the garden and do that and talk about the things that he loved. It’s a lovely thing to do,” she shared.

ITV viewers saw Kate return to her presenting duties on Good Morning Britain in July, after taking three months off to look after her children.

The radio host has continued to keep her followers and friends updated on Derek’s health condition on GMB and social media throughout lockdown.

It comes after the news broke that Derek had become the longest-serving patient with coronavirus.

Kate previously told her co-hosts Susanna Reid and Adil Ray that Derek’s mum and dad still haven’t been able to visit him in hospital.

She announced on Good Morning Britain last week: “I think if they can go six months without giving a hug to their son – making me feel emotional – who is so desperately ill, then the rest of us can make it through.”

Gardeners’ World airs tonight at 9pm on BBC Two.

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