Show garden gift to Mount Edgcumbe Hospice
Garden gift
Newquay based Garden Designer Kim Parish and garden design company Landscapes of Distinction will be showcasing a very special garden, ‘The Fontana Tranquillity Garden’, at this year’s BBC Gardener’s World Live at the NEC Birmingham.
What makes it special is that after the event the garden is being donated to Cornwall Hospice Care and will be transported back to Cornwall and to the charity’s Mount Edgcumbe Hospice in St Austell.
Kim Parish says she’s thrilled that the garden has a long term future;
“I’m passionate about the power of nature and the support and comfort it can provide. Together with sponsor and generous donor, Derek Bishop, we’ve worked with the hospice team to produce this very special garden 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 some of the bedrooms and the patient lounge.”
The garden celebrates Cornwall and Cornish gardens and Kim (left) is working with 91 year old Derek (right) to fulfil his life-long ambition to be part of a show garden.
The Cornwall Hospice Care team are now filming all aspects of this garden gift, including the background preparation work to ensure they capture the story of this extraordinary and very special garden. When at the hospice it will be known as ‘The Fontana Tranquillity Garden, a place to find peace, comfort and calm”.
The garden will open in Cornwall Hospice Care in the early Autumn. Gina Starnes, the Clinical Director, says;
“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 garden gift to our hospice where it will offer a place of solace and comfort for
our patients, their families and our staff and volunteers.”
Kim Parish has designed and built several show gardens at BBC Gardener’s World Live. In 2021 she was awarded Gold and in 2022 won the People’s Choice for her work. Both gardens featured on the television programme Gardener’s World.
