The Holocaust Memorial Garden of Temple Emanuel of South Hills in Mt. Lebanon abounds in eye-pleasing plants, such as fire-red burning bushes, pink begonias, sky-blue forget-me-nots. Still, its deeper beauty lies in the story it tells.

We get to see it tonight at 8 when the garden is featured on WQED television's ``The Gardens of Pennsylvania.'' The garden is one of the state's eight most interesting gardens as chosen by Doug Oster, the show's producer, host and writer.

The one-hour show will air on PBS affiliates statewide.

Temple Emanuel congregants are invited to celebrate the premiere at Covenant of South Hills, 1300 Bower Hill Road, starting with a 7:30 p.m. ''meet and greet'' with Mr. Oster, followed by the viewing.

The show will be repeated on WQED on Sunday at 3 p.m.

The other featured gardens are: Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens; Kennywood Park; Erie Zoo and Botanical Gardens; Hershey Gardens; Marywood University Arboretum in Scranton and the Chanticleer and Longwood gardens in Philadelphia.

Measuring a few feet larger than its original 32-feet by 16-feet, the Holocaust garden is dwarfed by the others, some of which are up to 300 acres with fountains.

"It is the smallest in size, but the largest in meaning,'' Mr. Oster said.

He is the garden columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and host of a Sunday morning gardening show on KDKA radio.

The garden was the dream of the late Marga Randall, a congregant who escaped from Nazi Germany as a young girl, and who wanted as her legacy a garden for children to learn about the Holocaust.

When expansion of the temple was begun in 2000, Mrs. Randall asked the architect to save space for a garden.

"For Marga, it had to grow in perpetuity,'' said temple board member and master gardener Lynn Rubin, who designed the garden.

In the arrangement, the railings along the walkway represent the wall of the concentration camp, while the red, prickly-leaved barberry against it stand for bloodshed. The evergreens next to the red plantings are representative of the thick evergreens that protected the Jews in the forest.

From that point inward is a free flowing color scheme symbolic of life, culminating in white for freedom and peace.

The garden has two black, custom granite benches inscribed with the word "remember'' in English and Hebrew, and the engravings "1.5 million children and 6 million Jews'' and "Righteous Gentiles.''

There is also an urn filled with soil from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and a granite boulder engraved with the names of other major camps.

Its official dedication was held on Aug. 15, 2004.

An award-winning mini-documentary by Mr. Oster on the garden was televised on WQED later that year.

A few years later that tape helped him sell his gardens idea to funders.

He began filming in May, finishing in mid-September. He concluded editing only last week.

Mr. Oster said the show is a dream-come-true for him beyond his love of gardening.

"I wanted to pass on what Marga wanted: that the garden is there so no one forgets the Holocaust,'' he said.