Green-fingered Jacqueline Leech is one of the best garden designers in the country, but her own plot is slowly turning into a jungle.

Jacqueline has won the top prize in the Gardener's World Live student garden design competition, taking £1,000 and a Waterford Crystal vase.

The Askham Bryan College graduate designed a Norfolk-style garden for the competition as an oasis of calm and retreat from the hurly-burly of life. It was built at the Gard-eners' World Live exhibition at Birmingham and later featured on the television programme.

"The college course and the competition have been so hectic that it has meant I have neglected my own garden!" she says. "I hope now to have a bit more time to work on it."

But there could still be some delay because Jacqueline, of Riddlesden, is also on the look-out for commissions for her garden design company Growing Space.

Anyone interested should contact her on 605665.

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