By Leicester Mercury | Posted 20 March, 2012
The Garden of Light and Reflection, which was created on behalf of the Groby Road charity, picked up a silver medal at The Royal Horticultural Society's Hampton Court Palace flower show last summer.
After keeping the perennial plants, paving and sculptures in storage in Leicestershire over the winter, the garden has now been transferred to LOROS.
When complete, it will feature brightly-coloured plants, edible fruits and scented flowers to provide a tranquil outdoor area for patients.
Contractor Martin Kilgour, of Burrough on the Hill firm Kilgour Landscape Ltd, who is leading the development at the hospice, said: "We took the garden to the Royal Horticultural Society show in the summer, then took it all apart very carefully and we're now reassembling it here.
"We're including most of the main elements of the show garden here. It's a very vibrant garden with lots of light and lots of colour."
Workers have been on site for about four weeks, and are expecting to have most of the landscaping completed next month. Once that is finished, volunteers will be helping to replant all the flowers, before an open day on May 18.
Martin said: "It's not been the easiest job, moving the garden, but I'm very pleased with how it's all going."
The idea for the garden was thought up by LOROS volunteer Pauline Pitts and Rose Dejardin, landscape architect for the charity.
The team raised about £75,000 to fund the project and are still working to raise extra cash to help with permanent installation and maintenance costs.
Pauline, of Rutland, said: "It will all be worth it.
"We know how beautiful this garden can look because we took it to Hampton Court and we're now able to install is in its final location at LOROS in an area much bigger than we had to work with before, thanks due in large part to a generous donation by Leicestershire and Rutland Freemasons.
"We hope the new space will optimise the therapeutic benefits that the Garden of Light and Reflection will bring, helping patients come to terms with an incurable illness and providing a restful retreat."
LOROS fundraising manager Diane Morris said: "The garden will have real therapeutic benefits for patients.
"The work and the fundraising has gone into it has been phenomenal – it was all done in addition to the £4 million we have to raise each year to keep going."
