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WorldSkills UK Landscape Gardening Competition Results

10 students from colleges from Scotland and Northern Ireland battled it out in very hot conditions over 2 days at Gardening Scotland 2010. Temperatures reached as high as 26c on Saturday 5^th June making working conditions very tough for all involved.

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 all 36 competitors who have taken part throughout the UK. Students all had to solely build a 2x3m garden designed by BALI Award Winning Designer Patricia Fox of Aralia Garden Design and Build, from scratch within 6 hours.

The top 5 students (in order) from Heat 2 at Gardening Scotland:

Ryan Love, Oatridge College
Robert Stewart, Individual, Oatridge College
Neil Bradley, College of Agriculture and Rural Enterprise
Kristopher Orr, College of Agriculture and Rural Enterprise
Kerrera Macindeor, Individual, Oatridge College

Angela Radley, Project manager of the competition from BALI commented “What a tight competition up here in Scotland! All 10 competitors found working in the hot conditions very challenging. They did very well to produce competitive scores. Well done to Ryan Love and Robert Stewart both from Oatridge College who have secured a place in the National Final. Congratulations also to Kerrera Macindeor from Oatridge College who is the top placed female in the competition at only 17 years old”

National Finalists

Out of the 36 competitors this year only 8 can go through to the National Final at Malvern Spring Gardening Show 23-26^th September. The National Finalists are as follows:

Ryan Neveu, George-Stone Gardens, Cheltenham
Darren Cumming & David Harvey, The Essential Earthmen, Devon
Ryan Love & Robert Stewart, Oatridge Agricultural College, Edinburgh
Ben Skinner, Chichester College, West Sussex
Arran John Tricker, Individual Sparsholt College, Hampshire
Oliver King, Otley College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Suffolk

The 8 National Finalists will have to build a 6x6m garden, designed by Patricia Fox of Aralia Garden Design and Build, in teams of two (paired randomly). The garden design will be released to competitors 2 months before their competition.

To find out more please visit the WorldSkills UK pages of www.bali.org.uk.

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