A GREEN-fingered Cookley garden designer has scooped a bronze award at a national gardening show.

Juliet Stafford won the Royal Horticultural Society [RHS] award for her show garden at the national Malvern Spring Gardening show.

The 34-year-old’s garden design had a dance theme to create the feeling of movement and flowing form. It was named Harmony and was based on Japanese zen and tea gardens.

She said: “I’m really pleased to have received a medal. They gave out loads of bronze awards but not everyone got a medal so I was really lucky to get one.”

Miss Stafford, of The Crescent, has been running her own garden design and maintenance business for two years and has worked with many companies, including Horgan Homes, Mouse and Moon Garden Design and C.A Frazier Landscapes Ltd.

She has a passion for gardening and studied landscape architecture at Leeds University.

Miss Stafford has an RHS general certificate in horticulture and is currently studying for an MSc Cad and Construction at Wolverhampton University.