A SPECIAL garden encouraging organ donation will be on show at next month’s Malvern Spring Festival.

The garden has been designed by award-winning landscape architect Ruth Gwynn and her husband Rupert from Keyspace Gardens in Pershore on behalf of the organ donation committee at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

It features the colours used by the NHS Blood and Transplant service – blue and red – along with heart-shaped leaves along two paths, one featuring joyous, uplifting planting to represent the positive impact of signing up and the other becoming increasingly closed and narrow.

The garden will be on show at the annual event run by the Royal Horticultural Society at the Three Counties Showground, which runs from Thursday, May 7 until Sunday, May 10.

Specialist nurse for organ donation at the trust – which runs Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Kidderminster Hospital and Redditch’s Alexandra Hospital – Emma Lawson said: "This is a fantastic opportunity for us to promote the gift of organ donation.

“We are hoping to increase the number of people signing up to the donor register throughout the event.

“We are very grateful for all the support we have received from the organisations involved."

A garden designed by Mr and Mrs Gwynn promoting awareness of Parkinson’s was given a silver gilt flora award at last year’s show.

To sign the organ donation register online visit www.organdonation.nhs.uk.