South Lanarkshire College is thrilled to announce a silver award at this year's Scone Palace Garden Fair
As part of this year’s Scone Palace Garden Fair, three NC Level 5 Horticulture students have clinched a silver award in recognition of a small, but beautifully created garden. Huge congratulations to Nikki Cross, Pamela Gashi and Lorna Rhoney!
The Scottish Gardeners’ Forum has run the Pallet Garden and Planter Challenge as a national event for many years. This has been hosted at Scone Palace since the Garden Fair was launched four years ago.
In a bid to give back and strengthen ties within the community, the award-winning garden was recently donated to Kilbryde Hospice. It's hoped some of what has been planted will go from plant to plate in the Kilbryde Kafe.
South Lanarkshire College is also delighted to continue with our work experience partnership with Greenbank Garden (National Trust for Scotland) following the success of this session’s student cohort.
Fiona Sanderson, Horticulture Lecturer at South Lanarkshire College explained more: “This is an excellent proposition for our students. Working with Andrew Hinson the Head Gardener at Greenbank Gardens, provided our HNC students with a valuable work placement, that gave students an opportunity to learn the techniques of heritage gardening.
Fiona continued: “I am so proud of my Horticulture students and what they have recently achieved. They are truly flourishing and representing themselves and the College with flair, enthusiasm, and professionalism. I have no doubt the future is bright – I am really looking forward to the next academic term.”