26 Students Landscape Gardeners Battle it out in Competition live at Malvern Spring Gardening Show

 26 students from colleges and industry battled it out in varying conditions over 4 days at Malvern Spring Gardening Show 6-9th May.  The WorldSkills UK Landscape Gardening Competition, sponsored by Marshalls, run by The British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI) in Association with UKSkills has proven challenging for the 26 Advanced level students who were put under pressure to build a 2x3m complex garden within 6 hours. The garden design was produced by BALI Award Winning Designer Patricia Fox of Aralia Garden Design and Build.

The top 5 students (in order) from Heat 1 of the competition are:

Ryan Neveu from George-Stone Gardens who studied at Hartpury College.

Darren Cumming, (commercial entry) The Essential Earthmen

Ben Skinner, from Chichester College down in West Sussex

David Harvey (commercial entry) The Essential Earthmen

Arran John Tricker, an Individual entry who studied at Sparsholt College Hampshire

 Angela Radley, Project manager of the competition from BALI commented “It was fantastic to see so many entries this year. All competitors at Malvern gave it their all really trying to maximise what points they could get from the judges. We had some very cold wet conditions;  all credit to the competitors, staff and judges for a keeping a cheery and competitive atmosphere.

This year we introduced live commentary to the competition, which proved very popular with spectators.  Many asked questions about the competition and the competitors; they thought the talent of competitors, some as young as 16, was incredible and didn’t realise that such a competition existed.

Congratulations to Ryan for securing 1st place on the leader board.  We love coming to the Malvern Spring and Autumn Shows and look forward to coming back for the National Final of the competition here in September. “

There are 37 competitors in total this year, to find out how they are all getting on please visit the WorldSkills UK pages of www.bali.org.uk for up to date news as the regional heats progress.

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