REASEHEATH College students have left their mark on this year’s RHS Tatton Park flower show, designing and constructing one show garden and contributing towards another - the sponsors’ main attraction.

Students at the Nantwich-based agriculture college’s garden and landscape design course displayed a sensory garden - which will then be installed at a school in Cumbria - while plants grown by the students adorned the Bruntwood ‘experiment’ garden.

Liz Rees-Graham, a member of the group of coursemates behind the sensory garden, said: “It’s a sensory garden for a special needs school in Cumbria.

“We are all design students and didn’t want to do a normal curved, naturalistic sensory garden.

“We have tried to pick up some of the angles we associate with Cumbria, and went from there.”

Meanwhile, show supporters Bruntwood enlisted students’ help to create their ‘Petri dish’ style experiment, using easily manageable urban plants in line with one of the show’s key themes.

Maisie Irlam of Planit-ie, who helped with the design process, said: “We worked with Bruntwood last year and again this, and Reaseheath students have been a great help in growing the plants.

“Part of it is to do with science and the Bruntwood science developments. The form is based on a Petri dish, and the ‘experiment’ is seeing how people come into the space and interact with the plants.

“The planting is plants that naturally colonise urban spaces – the things you would see coming off buildings in the city centre.

“It’s using plants that don’t need that much care and attention, and something that everyone can get involved with.

“We have engaged with quite a lot of people in this, with Reaseheath helping with the planting.

“Also, people who might not enjoy that horticultural side of things can get involved.”

Around 80,000 visitors are expected to descend on Tatton Park with the show running through to Sunday.

For more information, and to buy tickets, visit rhs.org.uk/tatton