Day five

15th June 08

So then, the last day.

It’s been an absolutely brilliant experience and I’m just so delighted that the garden has proved so popular.

Though it seems a shame that, by the end of tomorrow, it will all be in a skip.

Yes, that’s right, the gardens all get taken apart and thrown away.

I suppose it’s a rite of passage for designers – you conceive a garden, watch and help it grow, then have to say goodbye to it.

It’s a depressing end to an elating week. I’m dreading seeing it all being broken up: the sardine water feature and canal, the salad growing area, the vegetable baskets, the living shed roof.

What a sad sight it will be when the garden is gone, and the NEC is left blank and bare again.

Hey-ho. All good things must come to an end.

I’m just delighted that I was given the chance to see my garden design come to fruition and hope the public has got as much out of this year’s BBC Gardeners’ World Live – in terms of inspiration, knowledge, and memories – as I have.