A Sale gardener has won a nationwide garden competition to design front gardens.
Lee Burkhill design, called ‘Fancy a brew? Take a pew’, is one of four regional winners of the event, run by the RHS and the BBC, called ‘Feel Good Front Gardens’, which challenged gardeners to design a front garden.
Lee, aged 33, will now represent Manchester with his design at the Hampton Court Flower show in July to show how front gardens need not be paved or flagged over.
A spokesman for the BBC says:”Lee symbolises a return to the good old-fashioned community days where neighbours would talk over front garden walls or sit on the front step with a brew, putting the world to rights before tea time.”
Lee, who works as IT project manager says gardening means the world to him. All his spare time is devoted to designing gardens.
Lee, a former Manchester University student, has started a garden design blog, Garden Ninja,to showcase his work.
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