Pupils and students enjoyed the limelight when they won prizes and appeared on Reaseheath College’s eye-catching garden at RHS Flower Show Tatton Park.
Thomas Atkinson, six, his seven year-old sister Beau, Poppy Beeson, eight, and seven year-old Ruby Deaville, who were dressed as ‘bug hunters’, posed on the garden with a giant aphid for photographers.
The flower show, which showcases the best of British gardening talent, has been enjoyed by 80,000 visitors before closing today (July 26).
Reaseheath College in Nantwich is a regular medal winner, but chose this year to put on an educational feature with its garden called “The Leaf”.
The giant aphid was manufactured by Nantwich firm Harbrook Engineering.
The garden was designed and built by Reaseheath garden and landscape design students Matthew Kent, Nigel Barber and Sam Lawton.
Matt said: “We wanted to step outside the box and design something which was young and interesting.
“We really enjoyed the reaction of visitors when they were viewing the garden.”
Reaseheath floristry students also celebrated after winning the RHS Tatton Park Floristry College of the Year Competition for the second year running.
Reaseheath’s victorious team were Carol Edgington, Robyn Longden (pictured, below) and Rachel Collinson-Fletcher, who were supported by head of floristry Sue Poole.
The students have now qualified for the national finals at the Chelsea Flower Show 2016.
Reaseheath’s student team took the ‘runner-up’ title at Chelsea this year.
Ian Lloyd, senior RHS floristry judge, said: “The stand was immaculate and the finish and presentation were excellent.
“The whole exhibit was a real credit to Reaseheath’s students and all the judges were extremely impressed.”
Three Reaseheath horticulture students contested the WorldSkills UK Landscape Gardening semi finals.
Chris Shore, 20, has qualified for the national finals at The Skills Show in November.
Meanwhile, teams from Cheshire East Council also struck silver in two categories at the show.
Tatton Park’s own team picked up an award for China ‘Mother of Gardens,’ an exhibit depicting a Chinesea courtyard with native species, including bamboo, a dove tree, hibiscus, buddleia and kiwi fruit (pictured, below)
And in the ‘Back to Back’ garden category, Connecting Cheshire Partnership, who are responsible for delivering superfast fibre-optic broadband across the Borough, took silver for their entry.
Designer Jan Leigh’s exhibit featured pulsating LED lighting and an arrangement of illuminated pathways to represent 900 miles of fibre optic broadband now rolled out to homes and businesses across Cheshire East, Warrington and Halton.
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