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2009 Chelsea and BALI Award Winning Designer signs up to design WorldSkills UK Garden 2010
Patricia Fox of Aralia Garden Design, who won a BALI Landscape Design Excellence Award and a prestigious award at Chelsea in 2009, has signed up to design the WorldSkills UK Landscape Gardening Competition Garden in 2010. Patricia will follow in the footsteps of highly accomplished designer Andy Sturgeon who designed the competition garden in 2009.
Patricia will use her professional expertise and her enthusiasm to grapple with the competition garden design. Designing a garden for a small space in a competitive environment is a challenging task. It takes skill and creative flair to design a garden that will show off materials donated by the competition sponsors and be interesting to spectators, The WorldSkills UK Landscape Gardening Competition Garden is designed to test the landscape gardening skills of student competitors.
Patricia Fox from Aralia Garden design commented:
‘I am thrilled to have been offered the opportunity to design for such a prominent & rewarding competition, designing for such a small space is never easy but I look forward to the challenge, and wish the contestants the very best of luck’
The landscape gardening competition is part of a set of over 70 skills competitions called WorldSkills UK which are run UK wide, in association with UK Skills. Every year the landscape gardening competition attracts, on average, 50 competitors from colleges and industry. Competing within regional heats; those scoring highest are invited to complete in a national final.
The 2010 regional heats will be hosted as a live feature of: Malvern Spring Gardening Show and Gardening Scotland (funded by the Scottish Government). Malvern Autumn Show will host the national final. Attracting over 180,000 visitors between them, these venues provide an excellent publicity platform to showcase products and skills to the horticulture and landscape industry.
Outstanding national finalists across the UK may then be considered for inclusion in Team UK. The UK compete in the biennial International Worldskills competition where almost 1200 competitors from around 50 countries compete to win medals. This year at WorldSkills Calgary 2009, the Landscape Gardening team won a medallion for excellence.
The next International Worldskills competition will be held in London 2011 between 5-8th October and 2010 is the last year people can enter to be in with a chance of competing with Team UK in front of a home crowd.
For more information about the World Skills Landscape Gardening Competition UK please call 02476 690 333
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