BUYERS at a charity sale on Saturday will have a chance to acquire prize winning plants endorsed by celebrity gardener Alan Titchmarsh.

Former panel beater Phil Osman from Gorse Hill, designed a garden which is featured at the Malvern Spring Gardening show this week.

And instead of selling the plants to visitors at the end of the show he is selling them in Swindon on Saturday to raise money for the Swindon Cancer Appeal.

Mr Osman, 44, said: "I won a medal for the garden and the Three Counties Agricultural Society has asked me to exhibit again at the Three Counties Show in June.

"Alan Titchmarsh came over and endorsed it.

"He was singing its praises, and mine, on television, which was very nice."

He will be selling the plants at Swindon College, North Star site on May 21, starting at 11am, and after that he will have to start replanting the garden in time for the Three Counties Show.

Money raised will help the Adver-backed Swindon Cancer Appeal provide a two training posts for Macmillan specialist nurses.

One specialising in breast care cancer care and another nurse specialising in gastrointestinal cancer.

It will also help to provide a Macmillan clinical psychologist in cancer and palliative care as well as patient grants.