A total of 298 trees have been planted in the shape of a green ribbon, one for each of the victims who died on board the Malaysia Airlines flight en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima will join government and international officials at a solemn ceremony to dedicate the memorial in the park of Vijfhuizen, close to Schiphol airport in Amsterdam where the flight took off from on July 17, 2014.
While most of the victims were Dutch, there were 17 nationalities on board including Australians, Britons, Malaysians and Indonesians.
"A tree symbolises 'hope' and 'future' in many cultures," the victims families association said in a statement.
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"We not only want to honour the MH17 victims, but also want to create a place where everyone can keep their memories of the 298 passengers alive."
Funded by donations, the project was designed by artist Ronald A. Westerhuis and landscape architect Robbert de Koning after it was chosen out of three proposals by relatives in late 2015.
About 100 people are wanted in connection with the disaster, after Dutch-led investigators concluded the plane was shot down by a Russian-made BUK missile transported from Russia into areas held by pro-Russian rebels.
The trees in the memorial will be surrounded by sunflowers, which bloom in July, and will "radiate a golden glow" over the trees, the foundation said.
The flowers also represent "the sunflower fields in eastern Ukraine where some parts of the plane wreckage were found".
One apple tree has been dedicated to 16-year-old Gary, from Rotterdam, whose body has still not yet been identified.
"It's nice to think that he has a tree, since we have not received his body. We don't want Gary to be forgotten. We don't want any of the 298 victims to be forgotten," his father Jan Slok, told the daily AD newspaper.
If you look inside, you can see both yourself and the name of your loved one," Westerhuis told Trouw.
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