Sarah Eberle is a master story teller, with landscapes as her setting, and the plants and materials as her characters, developing a life of their own as her creation evolves.
sarah speaks
evolution of a design
Alongside landscapes, horses are the love of Sarah's life. Hear how a St George's Day arrival led to seven sleepless nights which jeopardised her Chelsea preparations and left her on the edge of exhaustion.
Sarah's Horses
Best in Show - it's unbelievable
7.40am and the judges have just visited. Not only have we got a Gold medal, but they've given 600 Days with Bradstone garden the award for the Best in Show!
It's just unbelievable. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect this.
Everyone's hugging and kissing me and wants to congratulate me. Cameras are being thrust in my face and we've having to fight off the media now!
I'm so overwhelmed, I just cannot speak.
When this flight of fancy lodged itself in my brain back in 1999, I never imagined the journey would end this way. Best in Show!?! At Chelsea!?! The most famous and prestigious of all flower shows in the world!?! And they've chosen my Mars garden above all others!?!
It is massively humbling. I owe such a huge debt of gratitude to all those around me who have helped and supported, encouraged and nurtured, to bring me to this point.
To my long-suffering and neglected daughters and husband Richard, who knew the decision yesterday as one of the Show judges but remained absolutely professional, never letting on in the slightest. I knew I would be trying to read the smallest element of body language, so I had to pack him off home so we weren't together.
To Scott and Joe and all the Hilliers team, who sweated buckets and put their backs into make every last detail of this garden perfect.
To Bradstone and Aggregate Industries, not least for sponsoring me to build the garden when so many others declined over the years, but also for answering my every prayer on hard landscaping materials and aggregate, product development, mixing and logistics.
It brings it all home why I go through this torture and pain, for such a sweet moment as this. I tell my daughters never to stop dreaming, because sometimes your dreams really do come true.
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I've been reflecting on today's win and feel absolutely floored by the result. So much goes into the making of a garden and there is so much hype surrounding it, that when it comes to an end, it feels almost life falling off a cliff.
Although part of mis inclined to bask in the glory of winning Best in Show, the other half wants to find a nice secluded grassy spot somewhere out of sight and weep!
The adrenalin carries me through and somehow I muster up the energy to give everything I have got to the people who still want to know more!
After a hectic and somewhat overwhelming day, I head back to the where I'm staying at about 10.30pm. My head is just about to hit the pillow when a niggling thought creeps into my mind . . . "have I turned off the electrics at the site?"
After a couple of minutes considering the consequences if my suspicions were confirmed, I leapt out of bed and headed back down to the showground.
As I arrive I noticed the BBC still hovering around the garden - I'm beginning to wonder if this really is the site that never sleeps!