George Harrison's widow Olivia has spoken of her hope that she will see the ex-Beatle again "on the other side".

Olivia, 59, has been creating a special garden at the Chelsea Flower Show in her late husband's memory.

Harrison, who died almost six-and-a-half years ago, was a regular at the show, and would return home every year with a list of plants he wanted to buy.

His family nicknamed him Capability George after the 18th Century English landscape designer Capability Brown.

In an interview, Olivia says of the garden at the home they shared in Oxfordshire: "Every time I go out there, I always think he'll just pop out from behind a shrub, like he used to."

She added: "Will I see George again? I take heart from something Michael Palin once said, which is that the idea of seeing George again, on the other side, makes the idea of death a whole lot more interesting."

"All I know is that George dedicated a lot of his life to obtain a good ending, and I don't doubt he was successful.

"The whole point of meditation is to have the experience you're going to have when you take leave of your body, so that when it actually happens, you're familiar with that transition and go, 'Oh yes, I know this place.'

"So yes, I must say that I like the thought, indeed the possibility, that one day he and I might once more be floating down the stream of time."

Olivia has created the garden for the Chelsea Flower Show, which opens next week, with designer Yvonne Innes, a three-times Chelsea gold-medal winner.

The garden is called From Life to Life, after a line in the Beatles' song It's All Too Much, and sponsored by Harrison's Material World Charitable Foundation.

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