In this second programme, a truck driver from Wakefield with a passion for flowers wants to create a perfect outside space for his girlfriend and burgeoning family, while in Swindon, a widow who has to leave her beloved garden wants to find the best way of turning her new bleak patch of green into an enticing cottage garden. Both have big ideas but tackling their outside spaces in one of the wettest winters on record makes the going very tough. There's plenty of mud, sweat and tears. And they also know they have a timetable to keep to. What will Monty's final verdict be?
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00:00Do you have a small garden but a big idea?
00:05Do you know what you'd like it to look like
00:07but no idea, really, of where to begin?
00:10Well, you're not alone.
00:12Over the last year, I've been working with people
00:14right across the country,
00:16helping them to make their garden dreams become reality.
00:20Monty Darn has listened to their hopes and plans.
00:24It's an absolutely crazy idea and I love it.
00:28He's given advice.
00:30Don't be frightened to push plants into crevices.
00:33And he's rolled up his sleeves.
00:35Let's not talk about it, let's just do it.
00:37Talk about a lean, mean gardening machine.
00:40Things haven't always gone to plan.
00:43I thought we were going to make four raised beds.
00:45I'm a bit worried that we might have killed it.
00:48But it's been worth it.
00:50What a beautiful garden.
00:52So happy.
00:54Thank you, Monty.
00:55Cheers!
00:57I do believe that however small your garden is,
01:01everybody can cultivate a big dream.
01:12I love the way that we British are so passionate about our gardens
01:16and that even the smallest space can have creativity poured into it.
01:22These sisters spend £5 billion every year on gardening.
01:27But in this series I want to show that money isn't everything
01:30and size really doesn't matter.
01:33Coming up, Monty meets two sets of gardeners
01:36for whom flowers hold a very special place.
01:39Oh, that is beautiful.
01:41They have monumental plans.
01:43You need every break going to get this done on time, don't you?
01:47They'll get really bogged down.
01:49We are never going to plant them in there.
01:52It'll stretch them to the limit.
01:54Two centimetres!
01:56But there'll be plenty to be proud of.
01:58It's really, really beautiful.
02:1449-year-old truck driver Gary has a zest for many things in life
02:18and comes out on top.
02:20I love being in my truck, I love my job, I love good loud music,
02:24especially seeing it live.
02:26But above all, I love my plants.
02:30This truck-driving, rock-loving garden fanatic
02:33is on the road most of the week.
02:35But when he comes home, it's to this estate in Wakefield, Yorkshire,
02:39which he shares with his girlfriend, Rox.
02:41Gary moved in with her six months ago.
02:44We've known each other for 30 years, since school time,
02:48but then lost touch.
02:50And then we bumped into each other on a night out, didn't we?
02:53And that was it, the spark was there.
02:55Off we went. Off we went.
02:57He's the love of my life.
02:59He's made the last 14 months of my life very happy.
03:02Fate, it's a wonderful thing.
03:05By moving in, Gary became part of a large family
03:08and he's desperate to transform this neglected and barren plot
03:12into something that we can all enjoy.
03:15Gary wants to create something that's ours
03:17because we're quite new together
03:19and it will be the first thing that we've done as a joint venture,
03:22so I'm looking forward to it.
03:31Our second lot of gardeners live in Swindon, in Wiltshire,
03:34in this townhouse.
03:36They are Sandra and her daughter, Abby.
03:39They moved in together, but only moved into this house two years ago
03:43when they were going through a traumatic period in their lives,
03:46after Sandra's husband, Abby's father, was diagnosed with cancer.
03:51When we moved here, my husband was already ill,
03:53he was in hospital, very ill, really,
03:57and my daughter, Abby, and I, we created this garden
04:00so that he'd have somewhere beautiful to look at when he came home.
04:05It gave us a sense of purpose because we were doing it for him
04:08and it was very therapeutic.
04:10Sadly, he died two years ago
04:13and now they're leaving the special garden they created,
04:16as Abby has decided to live alone.
04:18Sandra is downsizing to this house,
04:21which has a garden but not a patch on her old one.
04:24There'll be a chance for a new beginning, a new house and a new garden.
04:31It's early autumn in Wakefield, West Yorkshire,
04:34and Monty is on his way to visit Gary and Rox for the first time.
04:38I've met a couple of members of Queen, I've toured with Hawkwind,
04:42but to me, meeting a legend like Monty, it kind of caps it all.
04:47Hello there. Hello. Great to meet you.
04:49But what will his hero make of the plans for this nondescript garden?
04:53What is the big idea? What's this garden going to be all about?
04:56It's the Gypsy Road garden, that's the idea behind it,
04:59because it's the line from a song,
05:01My Gypsy Road Takes Me Home, which has been at home, surrounded by family.
05:05So that's a very romantic idea.
05:07It is, yeah. Gary gets up on a Monday morning, leaves for work
05:11and I don't see him again until Friday.
05:13When I do come home, this is usually the place that I come to
05:16to erase the week's woes.
05:18Tell me what you plan to do.
05:20Right, we're standing in one of the main flower beds.
05:23No, walk me through it, walk me through it.
05:25Itching to start his dream family garden,
05:28Gary's already marked it out with canes and ropes.
05:31Now, what's happening here?
05:32This will be the main patio, the main socialising area.
05:35In the middle of the garden? Yes.
05:37It is a central point that everything else kind of revolves around.
05:41All roads lead to here, including Gypsy Road. Absolutely, yeah.
05:45Behind the main patio is the planned swimming pool.
05:48Sorry, pond.
05:50So here we are in the deep end.
05:52All this is pond? Yes.
05:54It's a whopper. It is.
05:57A lot of digging out to do, though. Oh, yeah.
05:59Don't worry, I'll wield the spade, you wield the kettle.
06:02It'll be fine.
06:06Gary and Roxanne's plans include something for everyone.
06:09Lots of flowers, a productive section,
06:12a central gazebo next to a sandpit and a barbecue area,
06:16a pond, a fire pit and a romantic arbour.
06:20Their budget is £3,000
06:22and it's a really big project to get ready by next summer.
06:27Have you got plans on paper?
06:29Several. I'd love to see them.
06:31I'd really like to see them on plant lists, if you've got those.
06:34Absolutely, yeah. Go and look at that.
06:36Gary does indeed have these in spades.
06:38OK, Gosha, a big bundle of plans.
06:41One of the things that concerns me are the spaces between the spaces.
06:46I would say, if you have a bed and a path, they must butt up tight.
06:50Up to the path? Yeah. Right, OK.
06:52In terms of herbs, it would be nice to see them have more sun.
06:55Right.
06:56I would be inclined to make one of these near the kitchen a herb garden.
07:00Yeah. Just because they'll grow better.
07:02It's quite an involved, busy, complicated design.
07:06Yeah, it is. And there's a lot going on.
07:08You've got shrubs, you've got vegetables,
07:10you've got herbs and greenhouses and ponds and patios
07:13and fire pits and arbours and, you know...
07:15So I would say, if in doubt, take it out.
07:19I would move the herbs to a sunny area nearer the house.
07:24Fill the empty spaces by extending flowerbed right up to the main path
07:28and just simplify the design,
07:30because I think Gary is over-complicating things.
07:35There was a great garden designer from Spain
07:37who said that no garden needs more than seven plants.
07:41And I would say that no area, no border or piece,
07:45needs more than seven plants.
07:47Even the greatest gardens don't try and do everything all the time.
07:51Yeah.
07:52Whichever way they do it, this messy garden will need a massive overhaul,
07:56and Monty's worried they've bitten off more than they can chew.
08:00So the whole thing is staggeringly ambitious.
08:06Mm-hm.
08:07It's fundamentally you two doing the labour.
08:10We're going into winter. Yep.
08:12You need every break going to get this done in the time, don't you?
08:16Yeah. I'll spend whatever time is necessary out here to get it done.
08:20To get it done on budget and on time.
08:23I'm going to hold you to that.
08:25Oh, definitely, so am I.
08:33Well, there's a lot going on there.
08:35It is ambitious, really ambitious.
08:37Not so much in any one part,
08:38but the way that it's all trying to be put together.
08:41And it could happen.
08:43I think after talking to Monty,
08:45he now knows that some of it is not possible.
08:49Roxanne is probably going to have to just steady the ship a little bit.
08:53And maybe one or two things have to be sacrificed.
08:56I'm open to constructive criticism.
08:58I'm open to other people's ideas.
09:00And if they fit in with mine, then I'll use them.
09:08There's only two weeks to go before Sandra moves into her new house.
09:12Mum living by herself is hard for her, but also hard for me.
09:17I am really overprotective of her.
09:20Initially, I felt really quite sad and a bit panicky, if I'm honest,
09:26because I've never, ever lived on my own.
09:29But as time's gone on, I realised I will be able to cope.
09:34Today, Sandra's facing the daunting prospect
09:37of talking her gardening guru, Monty,
09:39through the plans she created with her daughter, Abi.
09:42Well, I guess this amounts to as blank a blank canvas as you can get.
09:47Absolutely. Yes, pretty much.
09:51What's going to make you feel comfortable?
09:53Well, I've got this empty patch made into my dream garden.
09:59What is your dream garden?
10:01My dream garden is a cottage-style garden
10:05where all my roses, my wildflowers,
10:08everything that's really special to me,
10:10will just be sat in my garden, surrounded by it.
10:13Are these plants that you want to buy or plants that you already have?
10:18Largely plants that I already have, especially my roses.
10:22Any other plants in particular that have meaning for you?
10:24Bluebells, whitebells.
10:26You want to bring bluebells into this garden? Yes.
10:29Are you mad? No!
10:32Bluebells will just take over and become the biggest weed you've ever seen.
10:36No, I...
10:38Hey, what the hell? What the hell?
10:40I like your spirit.
10:44Sandra's dream garden features raised veg beds and a shed at the back
10:49and is dissected by a Y-shaped path.
10:51This creates one central rose bed bordered by a box hedge
10:55and two large flanking beds which will also be planted full of roses
10:59that she's bringing from her old garden.
11:01And this is divided from the patio by more raised beds.
11:05Her budget is £1,000,
11:07but I'm surprised that such an enthusiastic gardener
11:10hasn't included a greenhouse.
11:13If you love raising plants, a greenhouse really is part of that.
11:17I really thought I would love one, then I dismissed it
11:20because I thought the garden's not really big enough.
11:22I mean, if a greenhouse would improve the garden, then make it fit.
11:28Build the garden round the greenhouse, not the other way.
11:31That sounds brilliant, doesn't it? Yeah.
11:33The greenhouse seems to be inspired and a big hit.
11:36Now all they need to do is find a place for it in their plans.
11:40So, patio here. Right.
11:42This is one thing that we're not sure about,
11:44how to make the patio really private,
11:46which was what Mum was really worried about.
11:49If you use quite a wide lattice trellis,
11:52they give a sense of privacy. Yeah.
11:54And then, of course, you can clothe it as much or as little you like.
11:58With plants. With a honeysuckle, with clematis, that's a thought.
12:01This is what I suggested originally. You did, yeah.
12:04I'm so thrilled that you said it!
12:06And I was saying, no, I think it would be too much of a barrier, but...
12:10I don't think it would. OK.
12:12OK, well, we're winning, so we've got there.
12:15Yeah. So these are various roses. Yes.
12:18You want to move your roses.
12:20The one thing I would say is when you start a new garden,
12:24and it's a fresh start, it's no good taking your old garden
12:28and thinking you'll recreate it elsewhere.
12:30It doesn't work. Mm-hm.
12:32You take all the good things from it, and the heart and the spirit,
12:36but you also have to start again.
12:39I would place a greenhouse where Sandra's veg beds sit
12:42and intersperse the vegetables throughout the flower beds,
12:45and that would fit in with her dream of a traditional cottage garden.
12:48I'd make it less formal by mixing in other plants with the roses,
12:52including ones that will bring real height to the garden.
12:55I'd replace those raised beds by the patio
12:57with a trellis to make it feel secluded.
13:00So are you not too keen on the idea of just a rose garden?
13:03Would you put different plants, perhaps, in there?
13:06I would, if it was my garden. Mm-hm.
13:09But it's your garden. Mm!
13:11I mean, it's a stylistic thing.
13:13I think if you want a loose, cottagey feel, you should mix it up.
13:18Mm. Now is a chance to try things out you've never done before.
13:23Bye.
13:27This is a fresh start,
13:29taking all the happy and the good memories from the past,
13:33and I really trust Sandra's desire to make it work and her skill.
13:38She's a gardener.
13:40It was just so lovely to meet Monty.
13:42It was absolutely amazing.
13:44It was even better than I thought it was going to be.
13:48Over the following days, Sandra prepares to leave the garden in Swindon
13:52that helped her through the loss of her husband.
13:55After he died, my garden became even more special
13:59because it was one place where I could just be myself
14:02and if I wanted to cry, I could cry.
14:04If I wanted to smile at some sweet memory, I could.
14:08Now she has to work out which plants to take with her.
14:12This one is Chinon, the rose that we bought just out of the garden.
14:16This is the rose that we bought just after my husband died
14:19and memories of my husband always shine on in my heart.
14:22The tauren over there reminds me of my mum,
14:25and the pilgrim, that's very special too
14:28because two dear friends gave that to me.
14:32So all of those and lots more will be moving with her to this garden.
14:38Sandra wants them to be transplanted before the frost sets in,
14:42and she's looking for reinforcements to get the new beds ready.
14:46My son and daughter have come to help me today
14:48and that's made me feel really happy.
14:50I just feel that the grey cloud that was hovering over my move
14:54is now lifted and I just feel full of enthusiasm
14:57and I just want to get going and create this wonderful new garden.
15:02It does feel like the beginning of the next stage of our lives, really,
15:06and changing the garden is quite significant for us.
15:09Hopefully it will all go to plan.
15:11With a lot of muscle, Sandra's son Chris is trying out a power digger.
15:17After a few hiccups, he's off.
15:21It's hard going and the strain begins to show.
15:24Oh, dear. It's bent.
15:30But by the end of the day,
15:32Sandra's beginning to see her new garden in a new light.
15:36It's really positive, isn't it? It is.
15:38We've not been doing it for hours, have we?
15:41Speak for yourself!
15:43Well, no, but I mean, I think we've achieved a lot in the time that we have.
15:47Yeah, we really have, and I think because we've worked well together as a team.
15:51Yeah.
15:52And already the garden looks much, much bigger.
15:55I'm beginning to visualise the borders already.
15:57Mm-hm, good. Yeah.
15:59All that's left to do is to prepare the flower beds for next week
16:03when Monty will be coming to lend a hand.
16:09Gary in Wakefield has spent hours teaching himself about plants.
16:14His knowledge of plants is amazing.
16:16I mean, he knows all the Latin names and, to me, he has to use
16:19the common names cos I wouldn't have a clue what he's talking about.
16:22He would love to put every plant that he could find in this garden.
16:26This passion for gardening started during a bleak period in his life.
16:30Gardening, it became more of an obsession due to depression,
16:35being in quite a dark place for two or three years.
16:38Gardening became my focus.
16:40It was the one thing that I wanted to do,
16:42and it gave me a light at the end of the tunnel,
16:44and I know it'll never leave me.
16:46But before he can indulge his love of plants,
16:49Gary's starting the mammoth task of digging up virtually his entire garden by hand.
16:58The plan for today is to strip the turf from about a third of the yard,
17:03which is most of the pond area.
17:06Then it's a case of levelling that area.
17:11Unfazed by Monty's warning about his over-ambitious plans,
17:15he's ploughing on regardless with his original design.
17:18But four hours in, he's hit a stumbling block.
17:23Well, it definitely doesn't feel like soil.
17:28We seem to have found a structure.
17:33But it seems to be too ordered to have just been dumped and buried.
17:39Just trying to work out where it all is.
17:43It's definitely going to make life interesting.
17:50I think that's it.
17:56Sadly not.
17:59Ah!
18:01At least Rox's son Stephen is on hand to help out.
18:04I started there, and it's kind of...
18:07Well, it's all the way along here.
18:09I keep saying to myself, oh, that's the last one, but it's not.
18:15While you're picking all them up, I'll get these moved with Barrow.
18:21To be fair, where you're digging,
18:23there's a dimple all the way through middle of the garden.
18:26If you can kind of see it, it kind of goes like that.
18:29Well spotted!
18:31I couldn't see it from down there.
18:33It's definitely a path.
18:35Well, just pass us that spade.
18:37We'll find out how far it goes.
18:39There.
18:43It's solid there as well.
18:45It's definitely a path, isn't it? It's got to be.
18:47By the time Rox gets in from work,
18:49the back garden looks more like an archaeological dig.
18:52Are you excited to join us? I am, yeah.
18:55What have you found so far?
18:57We've found something. What have you found?
19:00Well, we think it's a path. It will have been, yeah.
19:03Did you know it was here? I did say.
19:06When? Was I asleep?
19:09No, about... I moved in here 20 years ago,
19:13and before that, it was a vegetable garden,
19:15and apparently there was a brick path that ran all the way up.
19:18We thought we'd got most of it out, but obviously not.
19:21No, you didn't.
19:23It's like unearthing Constantinople.
19:27Oh, dear.
19:30Yeah, it's a nice day. You may as well crack on, build up a sweat.
19:33Coffee, please. Coffee.
19:35Ta, love.
19:41Monty is back in Swindon.
19:43Sandra is going to be moving in a few days' time,
19:46and she's always made it very clear from the outset
19:49that she wants to take all her beloved roses with her.
19:52And I've come to help dig them up and move them to her new garden.
20:03Well, it's nice to see them with a bit of sunshine.
20:05Yes, absolutely.
20:07And sad to dig them up, but it's got to be done.
20:09It has got to be done.
20:11But we want to be careful about it because these are very important,
20:14aren't they? They are. Very special.
20:16These precious roses could go into shock
20:18with the stress of being transplanted,
20:20but we're going to do what we can to minimise this,
20:22and the first step is pruning.
20:24Are you a vigorous pruner? Do you prune your roses hard?
20:28I do, normally, yes.
20:30Now, why is that?
20:32It's just something I've always done.
20:34Well, there's no need for shrub roses.
20:37And with great respect, Sandra,
20:39not all your roses are vigorous, healthy shrubs, are they?
20:43No, they're not.
20:44They've got rather strong stems. Yes, they have.
20:46And I suspect that's because you're pruning too hard.
20:48If you've got weak growth, prune it very hard.
20:51Mm-hm.
20:52Now, you can see here we've got branches that are crossing and rubbing.
20:56So if I cut that back hard, like that...
21:00Mm-hm.
21:01..if you've got any strong growth, prune it very little.
21:04Like that, and probably like that, and that's it.
21:08Because we're going to dig these up... Yes?
21:10..I'm going to prune them a little bit harder.
21:12Why? I'm going to take it down by half.
21:15Pruning the top growth lessens the strain on the roots
21:18which are being moved,
21:20and it helps to dig them up with as much of the roots as possible.
21:24What we're looking for is a root ball.
21:27Then immediately bag it and tie it up to keep those roots moist.
21:31OK, while you're labelling, I'll dig up another one.
21:34Thank you. I'm going to dig that up. That's Elizabeth.
21:36Right, Elizabeth. You're coming out, my dear.
21:39As Sandra lovingly labels her plants,
21:42Monty gets on with uprooting the roses.
21:44But even Britain's favourite gardener is finding the going tough here.
21:48Sandra, I would say that your soil
21:50is some of the most unpleasant I've ever worked with.
21:53After weeks of rain, the earth here has become, well, just solid clay.
21:58The soil at the other house isn't a lot different.
22:00To deal with this, you need to put a mulch on every year.
22:03You don't need to dig it in, just put it on.
22:05On top, then it'll work down. It'll work down. Yeah.
22:08There it goes.
22:10It's yet another two hours before the last rose is bagged up.
22:14Right, with daylight as it is, we ought to crack on.
22:18As speedily as they can,
22:20they pile themselves and the plants into a rather small car.
22:24The new house is just down the road,
22:26so there's still enough daylight to finish off the transplanting.
22:30But the plan goes badly awry
22:32when Monty sees the state of the new garden.
22:36We are never going to plant them in there. No.
22:39It's not ready. No.
22:41It's just been so much rain just lately,
22:43we've worked really hard, but it's just hindered us.
22:46A pretty good rule of thumb is if the soil is sticking to your boots...
22:50Which it certainly is. ..then you shouldn't be planting.
22:53The roses will need to be put in pots so they can be watered,
22:57but they have reached their new home.
22:59OK, so are you happy that at least we've done half the job?
23:02Oh, I'm really happy, yes.
23:04I'm just so glad that they're up safely and they're here safely.
23:08Thank you.
23:18It's a dismally wet winter.
23:20In Wakefield, Gary has to wait until February
23:23for the first dry spell to get going.
23:30Very heavy.
23:35Five months in,
23:36he had planned to have all the hard landscaping done by now,
23:39but most of the garden is untouched.
23:42I've not really got as much done as I'd like,
23:44but that's the Great British Weather for you,
23:46there's not a lot you can do for that.
23:48As time ticks away, you'll have the odd moment of,
23:50oh, my God, am I going to get it all done?
23:52Am I going to be able to get everything finished on schedule?
23:55It's just so frustrating.
23:58Today he's excavating the central hub,
24:00which is now a basic square shape, but it's back-breaking work.
24:04With the soil all sticking together the way it is,
24:06it's just coming off in lumps of clay, really,
24:09so it's not ideal and it does make the work a bit harder.
24:15Despite the uphill battle, Gary's not going to take Monty's advice
24:19and simplify his ambitious design.
24:21Even with the hiccups, the hurdles,
24:24I'm not going to scale back on the plans.
24:26The garden is going to be the garden that we want.
24:29And I'm not prepared to change that at all.
24:43It's April in Wakefield, West Yorkshire,
24:45and Gary and Rox are seven months into working
24:48on their dream Gypsy Road garden.
24:50The plan includes a pond, gazebo, sandpit and flowers.
24:55There's something for all the family.
24:57During his first visit,
24:59Monty suggested Gary should scale back his plans,
25:02but so far the advice has fallen on deaf ears.
25:05Today Monty's come to catch up on their progress.
25:09Gary's plans were extremely ambitious.
25:13To be honest, I thought probably over-ambitious.
25:16But if he is to achieve them,
25:18he needs to have finished the hard landscaping by now.
25:22So I'm expecting to see the garden laid out
25:25and I want to help him start the planting.
25:29Monty's in for a surprise.
25:31He's going to need waders rather than a spade to help these two out.
25:35Hello. Hello.
25:37Hello again.
25:39Come out, you lot. Come on, come and talk to me. How are you?
25:43So you've more or less dug this enormous pond?
25:46Yeah.
25:48It's at least twice as big as I thought it was going to be,
25:51but that's fine, that's good.
25:53It's kind of the focal point, it's kind of the essence of the garden.
25:57If you're going to do something, go mad.
26:01Have you had the wet winter that we all had?
26:03Oh, yes. We have been so put back by it.
26:06Well, I was going to say, I've got to be really honest,
26:09I thought you would be about a month ahead of where you are now.
26:12Yeah? Yeah, I did. I thought you'd have all your beds ready.
26:15So where are all the plants?
26:17Erm, yet to be bought.
26:19That's going to be a weekend job, innit?
26:22You're cutting it a bit fine. Yeah, yeah.
26:24You are cutting it a bit fine. Yeah.
26:26I'm here today, how can I most help you?
26:29Erm, well, you can help us by removing a bit more soil
26:33from this big hole and then sticking a pond liner in it, maybe.
26:37OK. OK.
26:39Let's not talk about it, let's just do it.
26:46Wildlife ponds like Gary's should have a flowing design
26:50and be set in a sunny position.
26:56They also need shells for marginal plants
26:59and a shallow area to attract more wildlife.
27:03But this is where Gary has had a battle on his hands.
27:06He's hit an old air raid shelter.
27:09Have you tried removing it?
27:11Yes. It was built to withstand a bomb attack,
27:14so me and a lump hammer and a chisel's going to have no effect on it.
27:19It has felt a little bit defeated,
27:21especially sort of like when we did hit that air raid shelter.
27:25I mean, it did sort of knock him for six a little bit
27:28and he didn't know what to do.
27:30It was a bit stressful.
27:32Gary and Monty share more than just a passion for plants.
27:35They've both taken comfort from gardening in difficult times.
27:39How are your dark days?
27:41I have had days when I've thought, this isn't going to happen,
27:44I can't do it, I just...
27:46You know, one problem just escalates in your head.
27:49I've not hidden the fact that I have suffered from depression in the past,
27:53quite severely, a number of years ago,
27:55and finding this was such a trauma.
27:59If anything was going to knock me back, it was this,
28:02and it did, temporarily.
28:04The fact that I've got over it, dealt with it,
28:07and things are still progressing is of huge importance.
28:11Like you, eh?
28:13You know about depression and sort of been there, go there.
28:17I find this work incredibly beneficial.
28:21It's physical, it's skilful, you're making something.
28:24It's part of the greater plan. Yeah.
28:26Do not think the fact that you've dug this out...
28:29Oh, the satisfaction is immense.
28:31You will know that. Yeah.
28:33When you see a beautiful water lily on the water,
28:35you know what lies beneath the water.
28:37Yeah, yeah, I know what went into that there.
28:43Once the inside is smooth,
28:45we need to check that all the sides are even.
28:48If I mark that, it's literally spot-on.
28:52You know what you're doing, don't you?
28:54I do try.
28:56That's done, so we can start putting the underlay in.
28:59Right. So this is to protect the liner.
29:05Gary is using a shop-bought one,
29:07but you can use a carpet, turf or felt as cheaper options.
29:12All right. Good, that's the easy bit.
29:15Right, a cup of tea and then the hard bit.
29:19Next comes the liner.
29:21So we're going to open it right out along this fence
29:24and then fold it over that way.
29:26And then take it over that way.
29:28I'd recommend a butyl liner, as it'll last for decades.
29:32This is a flexi liner,
29:34it's more of a polyurethane tarpaulin type.
29:37Right. Which is a lot easier to use.
29:39But not quite so flexible.
29:41The whole point about butyl is it stretches,
29:43so it goes in the nooks and crannies,
29:45but it's incredibly heavy and incredibly expensive.
29:48This is cheaper, much easier to put in,
29:50but will be difficult to get.
29:52But a lot less workable. Yeah.
29:56Gary may have saved money,
29:58but getting it smooth so the pond looks good
30:00is going to be a struggle.
30:02Straight away, can you see, you've got a wrinkle.
30:05We're going to take all these up and work back again.
30:09Get that in and I'll pull this way.
30:11To get the last creases out,
30:13it helps to weigh the liner down with water.
30:21With the pond filling up,
30:23Monty's brought baskets to give Gary a quick lesson
30:26with the only plants he's managed to get so far.
30:29You've got some lovely plants here, Keltha palustris alba.
30:33So it's a buttercup, but with white flowers.
30:35White variety, yeah. Fantastic.
30:37So, you need an aquatic basket.
30:39It's got holes in and that means that the roots can get out.
30:46A piece of hessian, not essential, but not a bad idea
30:49because it holds the soil, stops it leaking out.
30:52This is special aquatic compost and you have to use it.
30:57It's very heavy and very low in nutrients.
31:01The only acceptable alternative is subsoil.
31:05Really all this is doing is anchoring it.
31:08So that goes in there like that.
31:11This one here, you see it's pretty root popped out.
31:14Yeah, there.
31:15You can just gently tease it.
31:17You don't need to open it right up.
31:19If it's a fleshy root like this, go steady.
31:22If it's fibrous roots, I'd break...
31:24Pull them open.
31:25Just give them a bit of a break and that stimulates fresh growth.
31:29Yeah.
31:30And we'll just top up round them.
31:35And pop that in the water so that...
31:39These are marginal plants,
31:41so ideally the water will come just about to that level there.
31:46So the roots never dry out, but the top is never wholly submerged.
31:51You're going to need quite a lot of plants.
31:53You're going to need an awful lot of plants. Yeah.
31:56These can't be planted straight away
31:58as the water needs a week to settle,
32:00which gives the chlorine time to evaporate.
32:03If you're stuck for space, you can still have a mini pond
32:07by planting aquatic plants into a container.
32:10It needs to be at least 35cm deep
32:13and positioned in as much sun as possible.
32:20With rocks on final pond duties, it's been good progress in Wakefield.
32:25Thank you so much for your help today.
32:27I would have struggled on my own doing this.
32:29Because not many people tackle a project like this in their lives.
32:33No, exactly.
32:35So to be part of it, and just to help out a little, a tiny bit,
32:39is fun.
32:40There aren't going to be many more times in my life
32:43when I'm going to put in a pool like this.
32:45Same here.
32:49Gary is tremendously enthusiastic.
32:52He's good fun, he's hardworking,
32:54but there is one truth that remains,
32:57and that is that if he's to have any chance
33:00of making his dream come a reality,
33:03he has still got to work flat out every day from now till midsummer.
33:13Back in Swindon, Sandra's ready to get planting.
33:18She's creating a traditional cottage-style garden,
33:21which will include the 30 roses she brought over with Monty.
33:25With the roses decided, it's time to get them out of the pots
33:28and into the soil.
33:30I think I'm going to put this one here.
33:35They're in position.
33:37She's got some root grow powder to hand,
33:39but what she wants now is some last-minute advice from Monty
33:42to make sure she's doing it correctly.
33:44I've got that mycorrhizal powder you suggested,
33:47so what exactly do I have to do with it?
33:49The key thing with mycorrhizal powder
33:52is that it must be in contact with the roots,
33:55sprinkling it onto the roots themselves,
33:58and also sprinkle some into the bottom of the hole.
34:01Right, OK, bottom of the hole and on the roots.
34:04Do you think they might flower this year?
34:07I would be very surprised if they didn't.
34:10I would expect more than that.
34:12Oh, that's wonderful. Thank you very much. That's brilliant.
34:15Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
34:17He's quite confident that they will flower this year,
34:20so I'm pretty confident now to go out and get them in.
34:24The first rose to go in is the most important one,
34:27the shine-on rose she bought in memory of her late husband.
34:31Right, that's it, that's the first rose in.
34:34Sun shining, birds singing, first rose in my new garden.
34:38Her daughter Abby is coming to check that the design is going to plan.
34:42Yeah, so it looks a little bit clearer, Abby.
34:45Wow, it's getting there.
34:47I'm going to plant my roses in approximate places.
34:50Is there going to be any room for any other plants?
34:53Can't you see all the empty soil?
34:55It looks as though Sandra's forgotten Monty's advice,
34:58to mix in other flowers to create the cottage-style garden she dreams of.
35:03I think we've probably got too many roses, haven't we?
35:06Well, you think I have.
35:08You said, you're going to have to get rid of half your roses, Mum.
35:11And I said, no, I'm not, and I was quite upset that evening
35:14because I thought I can't get rid of half my roses.
35:16You can't get rid of some? No.
35:18Two or three are going in the front garden.
35:20You can have one or two duplicates.
35:22Didn't you want ornamental veg and stuff? Yes.
35:25Is that still happening? Yes.
35:27We'll have one or two dotted in between.
35:29OK. That's what they used to do.
35:32So that would be fine. OK.
35:35My only concern at the moment is that there's so many roses,
35:39which I know Mum loves, but there are a lot,
35:43and I think maybe we're losing a bit of the design of it being a cottage garden.
35:47I think we just need to just see if we can
35:50just tighten it back into a cottage garden again.
35:53But I'm sure Mum will ignore me entirely
35:56and there'll be roses everywhere, but that's fine.
36:05When Monty first met Gary and Rox,
36:07he thought their planting plans were too complicated to achieve in one year.
36:12So he sent them here to Great Dixter in East Sussex to get some tips.
36:17This 15th-century Tudor house was restored in 1910
36:21and is surrounded by a wonderful arts-and-crafts-style garden.
36:26Each corner has a profusion of plants in a fluid but structured design.
36:35Fergus Garrett is the head gardener and CEO who oversees the gardens.
36:39Hiya, Roxanne. Come on, I'll show you in here.
36:42He's happy to give Rox and Gary the inside track on border design.
36:47Here in the sunken garden, we've got this very cottagey planting
36:50which is multi-layered because we want this garden to look good
36:53next month and the month after and the month after,
36:55so we practise what we call succession planting.
36:58Fergus's team underplant each bed so that when the current ones die,
37:02others come into season and take their place.
37:05But it's essential to get these combinations right.
37:09So you've got some tulips that have got big, fat leaves
37:12and very broad leaves. Look at that. Look at the size of that.
37:15You have that densely planted throughout your bed.
37:17It's going to kill out all the water, isn't it?
37:19It's going to smother it, yeah.
37:20Whereas you've got other tulips which have got much narrower leaves.
37:23Look at that lily flower tulip there.
37:25So that's easier to plant through a border.
37:27So you have to think about those sort of things.
37:30It is quite complicated, though, isn't it?
37:32Because I started off on paper, I've taken lists of plants that I love
37:36and I've said, right, I want that and I want that.
37:38But then you have to look at it realistically and think,
37:41well, right, is that going to work with that?
37:43I think what you do is you get overenthusiastic
37:46and you throw the kitchen sink at it.
37:48But I think it's important to start simply, first of all,
37:52you know, get those main groups right.
37:55To stop Gary throwing everything but his kitchen sink
37:58into his flower beds,
38:00Fergus wants to show him how to get the basics right.
38:03If we take that bed as an example, let's put a hosta there.
38:08So if you just stay there and I'll show you...
38:11Fergus uses canes to mark out the area he'd plant with hostas,
38:15which are large architectural plants,
38:17and stands back to look at the effect.
38:19Big, bold leaf.
38:21So is that too small a group, too large a group?
38:24No, I think it's just about right.
38:26So that's that bit done.
38:29So we're going to see the hosta from here as well.
38:32So how many hostas do we want in this space?
38:35So one hosta here, that plant will cover, you know, an area like this.
38:41Yeah. OK.
38:42So the next one needs to be here to cover that area
38:46and then the next one in here.
38:48That's three in there.
38:50Then four, five.
38:53So, look, we've got five plants in here and that's the right spacing,
38:58and that's the right spacing.
39:00So if you did it on paper, you'd probably end up with 11 or 12 or 13.
39:05You absolutely would. I've done exactly the same thing myself.
39:08That's such good advice.
39:09It's such a common mistake, really.
39:11That's it, your pen and paper's gone.
39:13Don't you know?
39:15Fergus was trying to make us aware of the fact
39:19that you need to keep things simple,
39:21which is also what Monty's mentioned.
39:23There's still that bit of me that wants to do it my way,
39:26listen to what people are saying to you and follow their advice.
39:30You're a big list person, you write everything down,
39:34and the fact that he says,
39:36look at the border first and then put it to paper,
39:39that makes more sense than George.
39:45Back in Wakefield, West Yorkshire,
39:47Gary's returned from his trip to the Great Dixter Gardens
39:50and he's tackling his main bed.
39:53I've not quite decided yet. I'm thinking.
39:56The big question is, is he using Fergus' method to figure it all out?
40:03It is a really good way of working out the amount of plants you need
40:07for a particular spot, so, yeah, it's been very beneficial.
40:10It was very helpful.
40:12Gary is in his element.
40:15Oh, this is by far my favourite bit.
40:17This makes all the blood, sweat and tears
40:20that's gone into everything else worthwhile.
40:23The garden is finally beginning to take shape.
40:26Coming on, isn't it, Gary, now?
40:28It's just getting a bit of colour in as well, I think, innit?
40:31I like those.
40:32His neighbour Doreen has witnessed first-hand
40:34Gary's struggle to get where he is now.
40:37Gary's been there every moment he possibly could
40:41when the weather's permitted,
40:43and there has been blood, sweat and tears.
40:46When he found that air-raid shelter,
40:49I went in and cried because he was so, so despondent.
40:52He just didn't know which way to go.
40:54He spent hours as that kid in that garden.
40:59Gary has followed Monty's advice
41:01and eliminated dead spaces in his design
41:04by butting the flowerbed up to the path.
41:07Though he can't quite bring himself
41:09to follow another important suggestion,
41:11to prune back his plant list.
41:15His idea is less is more.
41:17It's kind of all right saying that when you've got a garden the size of his
41:20and you can do different things in different areas,
41:22when I've just got one area to indulge my passion for flowers.
41:26So I need to... I want to try and cram as much in as possible.
41:30I know I did promise Monty that I'd drain him in,
41:33and I have to some extent,
41:35but I think he's probably got about 50 variations in this garden
41:38at the moment somewhere.
41:43Gary wanted this garden to have something for every member of his family,
41:47and Roxa's granddaughter is already testing this out.
41:53She won't have to play in soil all her life.
41:55She will have a sandpit eventually over in that corner.
41:58This isn't the child's play area.
42:01Well, it is at the moment.
42:04In fact, nothing is finished yet,
42:06and though Monty's final visit is looming,
42:09Gary's still not heeding advice about scaling back his plans.
42:13There's the patio to lay, there's a pergola to build,
42:16there's a balcony to deck and fit railings to,
42:19there's a fence to put in, there's a greenhouse to move,
42:24there's a bed to finish planting.
42:27There's still lots and lots to do,
42:29but he'll get there because he's a determined young man.
42:32This is my playground and I'm going to play out here as much as I like,
42:36and I'm going to do what I want with it.
42:47I like those two. They'd be lovely together.
42:50With just four days before Monty's final visit,
42:53where else would Sandra go to put the finishing touches to her cottage garden
42:57but to a specialist nursery for roses?
42:59Oh, that is beautiful. Smile that way. That's beautiful.
43:03Oh, that is... Oh, I think that'd look lovely on the arch.
43:06Her daughter Abby is on hand to stop her getting carried away.
43:09Look, that's what I've got.
43:11But it's huge.
43:13Well, Mum's looking for some climbing roses
43:16and I'm here to make sure she doesn't leave with about ten.
43:23Ever the enthusiast, Sandra is checking out the catalogue.
43:27I'm looking for two roses to go on the arch.
43:33I've ticked a few that I'd like particularly to look at,
43:37just to check the scent.
43:39And this is one of the ones that I've actually ticked.
43:42Your arch is what, about here, isn't it?
43:44Yeah. So it would get...
43:46You can open...
43:48There are four different gardens displaying the roses
43:51that can be bought in the nursery.
43:53This is a nice one. Oh, this is lovely.
43:56That's really nice, isn't it?
43:58Sandra is like a child in a sweet shop and she's taking it all in.
44:02Oh, look at that one. I love that one.
44:06That's nice.
44:08The enthusiasm is infectious.
44:11Yeah, it's lovely. It's beautiful.
44:13Oh, yeah, I like that.
44:15It's going to be tough choosing only two special roses.
44:18Look for colours and then we can look at the name.
44:21Yeah. OK.
44:25Now, that looks awful. What about that one?
44:28Go for this one.
44:30That is beautiful.
44:32Oh, there's some more down there. There's plenty down there.
44:35Got it?
44:37Abi seems to have quite forgotten her role as rose control.
44:41Look how nice and bushy it is. OK.
44:43And over £100 worth of roses later, both ladies leave contented.
44:48So we've ended up with six roses, even though we were meant to buy two
44:52and I was meant to keep them in check,
44:54but actually, you know, they're all really lovely
44:57and my concern was having too many roses in the garden,
45:00but these are going to be...
45:02..probably mostly on the patio.
45:04Ah, the patio. Well, that's not the garden, is it?
45:07I think it's still going to be a cottage garden.
45:09It's still going to be a cottage garden and, in fact,
45:12it doesn't look like there are so many roses in there
45:15because of our selection of companion plants.
45:18Possibly the patio may look a little bit rosy,
45:22but then that's what I love,
45:24so why shouldn't I have plants I love on my patio?
45:28In our Wakefield garden,
45:30Gary and Rox have only four weeks left to finish their garden.
45:34They should be putting in their final touches.
45:37Or maybe not just yet.
45:39What next?
45:41Well, I suppose I could get these brackets bolted down.
45:44Yeah.
45:45Are they all measured in the right place and everything?
45:48Well, I think so.
45:50Not ideal.
45:51Need a bit, a better drill bit, I think. A better drill.
45:54They're building the gazebo,
45:56but the drill bit doesn't appear to fit their drill.
45:59Well, you could use that.
46:01HE LAUGHS
46:02That's an old one.
46:04It needs to be the right width, obviously, for the bolts,
46:07but it needs to be also long enough
46:09to go 100mm down into the sleepers.
46:12Try this on.
46:14I'm going to try this on.
46:17I don't think you'll get it in that, though.
46:19I don't have to use it.
46:21I'm running out of drills.
46:23Desperate to make use of one of his last weekends,
46:26Gary calls his dad.
46:28Oh, can you stop him?
46:30I want him to fetch his drill down.
46:32It's like a drill graveyard.
46:34It's definitely a minor setback.
46:36Again, something that's such a simple job
46:38has turned into a bit of a nightmare.
46:41At last, Gary's dad arrives, armed and ready to go.
46:45Gary's dad arrives, armed with a drill.
46:48Yay, the cavalry's here!
46:50But unfortunately, it's a case of out of the frying pan,
46:53into the fire.
46:55We've got fire.
46:58The family come up with a solution to combine two drill bits.
47:02Don't kick it!
47:04One down, three to go.
47:06And they're away, but not for long.
47:11It might need wanging that way a bit.
47:14Let's do it right for once.
47:16It's a gnat.
47:18Is that a smaller post?
47:20That would suggest that those poles are further apart.
47:27Yeah, that's well out.
47:30It's still two centimetres out.
47:33I'll have nightmares about that tonight.
47:35Two centimetres!
47:37The weekend, on the whole, has been a bit of a washout.
47:41Obviously, it's another setback.
47:43We're not as far as we wanted to be, but we'll catch up.
47:59Over in Swindon, the time has come for our mother and daughter team
48:03to show Monty the culmination of months of hard work.
48:07I feel excited because I'm proud of what we've achieved,
48:11but I also feel a bit anxious.
48:13It's almost like that feeling you get when you bump into a teacher
48:16that you've admired at ten years out of leaving school
48:18and you have to tell them what you've done
48:20and you're waiting for that kind of judgment from them.
48:22When you leave a much-loved garden,
48:24there's always a temptation to try and replicate it in the new site,
48:28but I do hope Sandra's resisted that.
48:31What I'm looking to see and hope she's achieved
48:34is the combination of all that is exciting about making a new garden
48:39but all that is treasured and retained from her old.
48:45Eight months ago, Sandra moved house and inherited this garden,
48:49a bare strip of grass that lacked privacy in Seoul.
48:53Now it's totally unrecognisable.
48:56Hello.
48:57But what will Monty think?
48:59Hello, Monty. Well, this is something, isn't it?
49:02A transformation. A complete transformation.
49:07The lawn's gone completely.
49:09It's been replaced entirely by flowers.
49:12The design is loose, wild and vibrating with colour.
49:18There's something interesting to look at at every level,
49:21with tall plants like foxgloves interspersed through the beds
49:25as well as small flowers like canterbury bells that nod over the path.
49:32New flowers have been mixed in with Sandra's many roses.
49:37And dotted here and there are vegetables like cabbages.
49:42Pride of place at the back of the garden sits the new greenhouse.
49:49Now, after all the trials and tribulations
49:52of the weather and moving your roses, have they survived?
49:55Yeah, each one's survived.
49:57They're coming on really well and they're not spindly
50:00because after all the years of pruning them all,
50:03you told me how to prune them properly.
50:05What's interesting is it doesn't feel like a rose garden.
50:08They are just worked in, aren't they?
50:10Yes, they are, and I think then when you look at each rose,
50:13you look at them as an individual rose
50:15and appreciate each rose's beauty rather than just a bed of roses
50:19when perhaps one overshadows the other.
50:21I'm intrigued to know how much of your old garden
50:25you've brought with you in spirit.
50:27Or is this a completely fresh start?
50:29Yeah, I think it is.
50:31I love the way that you've packed the borders.
50:34You've packed the garden.
50:36Yes, I remembered what you said.
50:38And, you know, you've mixed in vegetables
50:41with flowers and climbers and trees.
50:44This feels like joy.
50:46I'm absolutely delighted.
50:48I just sometimes have to almost pinch myself
50:50to think this is really my garden.
50:52Remind me what your budget was.
50:54Well, originally it was round about £1,000.
50:56We've probably gone over, I would say, £800,000 more.
51:00But that's not all on plants.
51:02A lot of it was just hiring skips,
51:04lots of those big dumpy bags of topsoil, grit.
51:08I love the mixture of common sense and just bravura.
51:13You've gone for it.
51:15I just think it's a triumph.
51:17Well done. Thank you. Thank you.
51:22And what better way to celebrate a beautiful cottage garden
51:25than with a traditional English cream tea,
51:28on the patio that's been screened off with a trellis,
51:31as Monty suggested.
51:33It's enormously peaceful, isn't it?
51:35Yes, it is.
51:36Do you think that it works?
51:38Yes, I do.
51:39Even now I think it affords some level of privacy.
51:42And the beauty of it is you can sit here
51:44and still look out on the garden.
51:46How does it feel living on your own?
51:48It feels quite different.
51:50It's taken me quite a long time to adjust to it.
51:52I think it's really helped having my garden project
51:55because I can just spend so much time
51:57and I just lose track of time out here.
51:59It's the end of one chapter and the beginning of another,
52:02so it's all good.
52:05It's been a fantastic experience and it's given us,
52:08all of us, a great focus
52:10and that will only continue as the garden develops.
52:13This is absolutely a new beginning for me
52:16and if this is just the start of my new beginning,
52:20it's going to get better, can't it?
52:24I love this story
52:26and the result is a beautiful garden
52:30that will only get better,
52:32only give more and more pleasure for years to come.
52:43It looks as though summer has arrived in Wakefield,
52:47but Gary and Rox aren't enjoying it just yet.
52:50They're about to reveal their garden to Monty
52:53and emotions are running high.
52:55I feel quite a bit, um, butterfly-y.
52:58You know, my stomach's turning a little bit
53:00but I'm sort of, like, thinking, well, we've done enough.
53:03My only concern about today
53:05is not whether Gary will have done the necessary work to complete it.
53:10I bet my last dollar that he will have done everything he possibly can.
53:14It's whether the garden will match up to Gary's expectations,
53:19whether the dream in his head will be made reality.
53:23I'd like him to see that we've taken on board what he said,
53:27um, we've put the work in.
53:29My God, have we put the work in!
53:31And we've achieved this
53:33and I think it does deserve a bit of recognition.
53:37Ten months ago, this garden was like a muddy football pitch.
53:42Now, after hours of painstaking work,
53:45it has been completely rejuvenated.
53:48Well, look at you. No wonder you're smiling.
53:51LAUGHTER
53:53No wonder you're smiling.
53:55Plenty to smile about. Yeah, this is fantastic.
54:05The centrepiece to the garden is now a raised wooden gazebo.
54:10Complete with a dining area for family gatherings.
54:14Gary's main flowerbed is a mass of colour,
54:17an assortment of blooms carefully choreographed for the space,
54:21with room to spread as they mature.
54:28The enormous pond is already teeming with wildlife
54:31and contains a variety of thriving plants
54:34like irises, pickerelweed and water crowfoot.
54:39Well, first impression is it's lovely and well done.
54:42Thank you. How do you feel about it?
54:44Fantastic. Really? Absolutely.
54:46That's good. Just love it now.
54:48We're over the moon with it.
54:50Well, that's 99.999% of all that matters.
54:53When we met for the first time, you had a big bag of dreams.
54:58LAUGHTER
55:00What have you had to compromise?
55:02Um, we've cut a few corners, haven't we?
55:05For instance, the greenhouse isn't in place yet.
55:08Um, the alba in the corner,
55:10and then a length of fencing and a gate needs putting in across there.
55:14This barrier to the pond is top of Gary's to-do list
55:17and will keep it child-safe.
55:19You know, as a gardener, that this is just the beginning.
55:22Absolutely. I've been saying, wait till next year.
55:26It's going to look incredible next year.
55:29Show me the plants. Let's go and look at some plants.
55:34Now, I know for you, Gary,
55:36that this is the heart and soul of the garden, isn't it?
55:39Absolutely. Flowers. This is...
55:41Flowers and more flowers. Yeah.
55:43Because your original plant list... Was extensive.
55:47I was going to say it was balmy, actually.
55:50And one of the anxieties I had was that it was just impractical.
55:54It just was not going to happen.
55:56To what extent have you had to modify that?
55:58Yeah, I've taken your advice on board
56:00and I have restrained myself and pulled myself back to a degree.
56:04But, yeah, there will be additions, but there will be removals as well.
56:07And I see you've also planted in good clumps and groups.
56:10It's not dotty.
56:12No, I think you need to make a statement with plants, don't you?
56:15Fantastic. Right, let's go down to the pond.
56:20When I last left you, this was filling with water.
56:24There was a mound of soil, both sides to be removed.
56:29So it really has transformed.
56:31What's interesting is the way that it's gaining a life of its own.
56:35In quite a short space of time, really.
56:37This is what we wanted, cos it's like there's nothing more natural
56:41than showing your grandchildren what's growing
56:43and the tadpoles and everything else that's coming into it.
56:47Well, I think it's lovely. It's fun, it's beautiful.
56:50And you must be really proud.
56:52Exceptionally. So proud, yeah.
56:56It's a thumbs-up from Monty,
56:58but now it's time for family and friends to give their verdict
57:01on Rox and Gary's dream garden.
57:04What a beautiful garden!
57:09Absolutely stunning.
57:11It's really, really beautiful.
57:14And it's a credit to them.
57:17I especially like the pond.
57:19And the fact that you have dragonflies in the pond, that is very cool.
57:23Brilliant, ain't it?
57:26Thank you. Thank you, sir. And congratulations.
57:28Thank you.
57:30Bye-bye.
57:33I'm stoked. I'm absolutely happy as hell.
57:36You know, I've got a garden that isn't a football field.
57:41I have absolutely created my Gypsy Road garden.
57:44It's...
57:51No, I'm...
57:56I've created an environment for...
57:58We've created an environment for the family to enjoy.
58:02Mm-hm.
58:08This is a success story.
58:11And it has been hard work, really hard work, I think.
58:14I think it's at times pushed them to the limit.
58:17But they've come through, and they've come through together.
58:20And as a result, the satisfaction and sense of pride is even greater.
58:25And I think not only has this garden changed their backyard,
58:29but it has probably changed their lives forever.
58:54© transcript Emily Beynon