A landscape architect from Brooklands, has won a Gold Award at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Tatton Park Garden Show.
Katie Maude, 27, with Urban Green, Manchester, won the young planting designer 2016 competition.

The former Altrincham Grammar School pupil was helped by landscape contractor Matthew Beesley from Cheshire, to construct their entry – Urban Garden, and transformed the space with a running water feature and woodland plants including a mix of ferns, hosters, and shrubs. The judges were impressed with results and issued a Gold Award.

Urban Retreat competed against two other gardens – Coastal Retreat and Countryside Retreat, to win the top award and was featured on BBC 2’s programme, RHS Tatton Flower Show 2016.