STUDENTS from Herefordshire have helped produce an award-winning garden that will feature in Birmingham's Botanical Gardens.
Members of Broadlands Primary School and the Royal National College for the Blind joined over 25 schools and colleges from around the country to design a Growing Schools Garden.
The idea of the project is to encourage learning and to provide an interactive teaching resource.
Divided into various zones, it was one of the star attractions at the recent Hampton Court Flower Show and earned TV personality Chris Beardshaw - one of the driving forces behind the project - a gold medal.
Broadlands School, which already has a green flag for being an eco-school, designed wall-mounted apple trees, while the RNIB students made tactile totem poles for the evolutionary section. Both were made out of red terracotta clay to reflect Herefordshire's red soil.
The garden will now be transferred to Birmingham where it will continue to encourage pupils to learn outside the classroom.
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