Give us your garden – and we’ll design you a new one!
Students at Pershore College are
desperately in need of gardens to try out their design skills – and
are offering their services for free.
The students, who are all studying for an HNC
in Garden Design, need a ‘real-life’ project to practice their
skills. Garden volunteers would receive a free design for
their garden, but would then need to do the landscaping and
planting work themselves.
These real-life projects offer the students
better experience in preparation for their future careers as garden
designers than a ‘hypothetical’ project in a classroom situation.
In the past students at the college, which is part of
Warwickshire College, have designed gardens for Evesham Community
Hospital, schools, hospices, and community groups as well as
individual people’s homes
The college would like to hear from groups or
people in the Evesham area if they have a project they think may be
suitable for the students to undertake – and projects that benefit
the community are particularly welcome.
The students would need to visit the site to
survey the area (so a very large project would be unsuitable) and
meet with the client in order to discuss requirements. They would
then draw up individual designs. However, the students would only
be involved in the design and not in the construction and planting
of the garden.
Anyone with a project they think may be
suitable should contact the college with brief details (including a
photograph of the site if possible)
For more information or to submit your garden
for a redesign, contact Mike Roberts, Technical Academy Manager, at
Pershore College at Pershore College, Avonbank, Pershore,
Worcestershire, WR10 3JP.