Budding success story for students (From Worcester News)

Budding success story for students

3:20pm Tuesday 5th May 2009

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THREE green-fingered students from a Worcestershire school will be entering a show garden at the Malvern Spring Gardening Show.

Year 10 pupils Matthew Ash, Sam Carlton-Smith and James Fielder, from Pershore High School, who are studying horticulture at Pershore College as one of their KS4 options, will be entering the show.

The boys, who are keen gardeners, have designed their garden with everything being recycled, propagated or grown from seed.

The total cost for the garden, which is six metres square, is less than £30.

All three students have worked hard over the past eight weeks to prepare the garden and they have planted seeds and grown them in recycled plastic bottles, old teapots and chipped china cups.

They have constructed a picket fence, three foot high, from recycled wood and painted it white.

Two flowerpot men are part of the display, one riding an old bike and another standing by the tea table.

At this stage, all the vegetable seeds have grown into leafy green plants and the boys will spend this week putting the garden together at the Three Counties before the judging on Thursday.

Based on their success this year, in 2010 the boys will have the opportunity to design a new garden and undertake the build and landscaping, and the new year 10 students will grow the plants.

This means the students will have experienced the whole process from design to build, and then to show and compete for an RHS award.

Matthew, Sam and James say they are all looking forward to competing again next year.

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