Student Matthew is on the right garden path

The Greenmount graduate who had been at the RHS Tatton Park Flower show was not only part of a small landscaping team that achieved two prestigious Silver Gilt medals for the gardens constructed but he has also been selected as one of six members on the UK Worldskills landscape panel.

Over the next year this elite squad of landscapers will undergo rigorous training in the build up to the Worldskills finals, which will be held in Leipzig, Germany in 2013.

Matthews’s journey began in the last month of his course back in May when he was selected, along with five fellow students, to represent Greenmount campus at the Worldskills trials.

The range and technical difficulty of the landscaping tasks he was charged with did not faze him and he was identified as one of 13 young people who displayed the attributes necessary to represent the UK on an international stage.

Following on from his initial trial, Matthew attended both the Great Yorkshire Show and Tatton Park Flower Show, where along with 12 other finalists, he was required to build a number of show garden displays. Matthew excelled in this pressurised environment and was rewarded with his place in the final team UK panel.

He even managed to fit in his graduation from the Level 3 Extended Diploma in Horticulture course as well.

Paul Mooney, Head of Horticulture Education at Greenmount said, “Following CAFRE’s previous success in having a Greenmount trained horticulturalist as part of the two person team that represented the UK in the Worldskills competition held in London last year all at Cafre now wish Matthew every success on his quest to represent the UK in Leipzig 2013. A good result would be an excellent achievement for Matthew personally and a great endorsement for Greenmount.”

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