The Wendron family garden of popular Apprentice candidate Naomi Lay is being shown on TV next tomorrow.

The garden at Bowling Green Cottage, belonging to Stephen and Carol Lay, will appear on the BBC2 afternoon programme Open Gardens, at 3.15pm.

The half-hour programme will feature the Wendron property as one of two gardens attempting to enter the demanding National Gardens Scheme, which can open under the prestigious NGS banner and be included in their famous "yellow book." Only the highest quality gardens are accepted.

Mr and Mrs Lay are visited by presenter and gardener Carol Klein, who helps the couple transform their woodland and wetland areas.

The synopsis for the programme describes Bowling Green Cottage as featuring a formal garden with woodland and wetland areas, but suffering from a lack of planting and a "potentially dangerous earth bank" to rectify.

The processes the family went through to transform their garden from wilderness to prize-winning garden, with the help of Ms Klein, have been documented by a BBC camera crew and the results will now be shown on national television.

The garden features trees planted back in 1994 by students from the Curnow Community School, where Mrs Lay was a teacher, who were sponsored and raised funds to work on the garden.

Back in July this year the family held a "trial run" for the National Garden Scheme opening, when they hosted a charity event in aid of the Merlin Project.

The family served cream teas - with the help of Naomi and her sister Tamsin - and raised £1,165 for the charity. They are now already carrying out preparations ahead of officially opening under the National Garden Scheme next year.

In addition, the woodland part of the garden has won the 2007 Kerrier South Woodland first prize and the more formal garden came third in the "large garden" section.