GREEN-FINGERED landscape design students have been awarded a Silver Gilt in this year's Chelsea Flower Show for their courtyard garden, based on the traditional ditty Daisy Bell.

Six students of the Berkshire College of Agriculture in Maidenhead, including Marlovians Diane Elliott and Lynne Bye, won the prestigious award for the garden Daisy Daisy', which was designed by team member Kati Crome, of Great Missenden.

Lynne Bye, of Lodge Close, said: "We have done really well and are very pleased. It's really difficult to know what to expect, especially as it's been a very difficult year. Certain things have not grown as well as they should have. The weather's been really up and down and there's been some high winds. But the garden has gone down really well with the public. They liked the fact that it's very natural. The comments we have had is that people really want to sit in the garden because it looks cosy and comfy unlike a lot of the more modern designs."

The design was based on the words from the popular song, including "Daisy Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy, all for the love of you".

It shows the churchyard setting of a marriage and, as well as the "bicycle made for two", lots and lots of daisies.

The garden was built as a student project under the guidance of college lecturer David Penny, who said: "This is a wonderful team effort."

Ms Bye said that the garden demonstrates how, even in a small garden with a very narrow colour palette and a single flower style in this case the Daisy unity and balance can be achieved.

She said: "The huge diversity within the daisy family creates visual impact that will help to attract wildlife. The controlled wildness of churchyard, however, has been created by sowing grass amongst plants as they have been grown."

For more on this design and the Chelsea Flower Show, see page 31 in FreetimeGREEN-FINGERED landscape design students have been awarded a Silver Gilt in this year's Chelsea Flower Show for their courtyard garden, based on the traditional ditty Daisy Bell.

Six students of the Berkshire College of Agriculture in Maidenhead, including Marlovians Diane Elliott and Lynne Bye, won the prestigious award for the garden Daisy Daisy', which was designed by team member Kati Crome, of Great Missenden.

Lynne Bye, of Lodge Close, said: "We have done really well and are very pleased. It's really difficult to know what to expect, especially as it's been a very difficult year. Certain things have not grown as well as they should have. The weather's been really up and down and there's been some high winds. But the garden has gone down really well with the public. They liked the fact that it's very natural. The comments we have had is that people really want to sit in the garden because it looks cosy and comfy unlike a lot of the more modern designs."

The design was based on the words from the popular song, including "Daisy Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy, all for the love of you".

It shows the churchyard setting of a marriage and, as well as the "bicycle made for two", lots and lots of daisies.

The garden was built as a student project under the guidance of college lecturer David Penny, who said: "This is a wonderful team effort."

Ms Bye said that the garden demonstrates how, even in a small garden with a very narrow colour palette and a single flower style in this case the Daisy unity and balance can be achieved.

She said: "The huge diversity within the daisy family creates visual impact that will help to attract wildlife. The controlled wildness of churchyard, however, has been created by sowing grass amongst plants as they have been grown."

For more on this design and the Chelsea Flower Show, see page 31 in Freetime