A CORNWALL-based garden designer will be featuring on a live BBC programme in the midlands.

Newquay based Garden Designer Kim Parish and garden design company Landscapes of Distinction will be showcasing a very special garden, “The Fontana Tranquility Garden”, at this year’s BBC Gardener’s World Live at the NEC Birmingham.

Kim Parish is thrilled that after the show the garden is being donated to Cornwall Hospice Care for the benefit patients, families and staff in a difficult time of their lives.

“I am passionate about the power of nature and the support and comfort it can provide. Together, Derek and I, have worked with the Hospice to produce this very special gift.

"The garden will offer quiet contemplation and feature a treetop outside room, two intimate seating areas and a beautiful pond with running water.

"For patients with more limited mobility the garden can be seen from bedrooms and the patient lounge.

"The garden celebrates Cornwall and Cornish gardens and Kim is working with our sponsor, Derek Bishop, 91 years young, of Kearn Estates to fulfil his life-long ambition to be part of a show garden.”

Cornwall Hospice Care are filming all aspects of the garden, including the background work that normally gets excluded.

They are keen to promote the garden and its sponsors/supporters. 2 The garden will open in Cornwall Hospice Care on 20th of August 2023.

Gina Starnes, the Hospice Charity Director, said: "The Fontana Garden’s journey doesn't end at BBC Gardener’s World Live. After the event at the NEC it'll be carefully packed up and transported back to Cornwall and to Mount Edgcumbe Hospice in St. Austell.

"We’re extremely humbled by Derek Bishop's generous donation of the garden to our Hospice where it will offer a place of solace and comfort for our patients, their families and our staff and volunteers.

"We believe it is an amazing opportunity to help people at a difficult time of their lives.”