A green-fingered youngster from Fife in Scotland has been named as this year’s Royal Horticultural Society’s Young Gardener of the Year in an awards ceremony at RHS Garden Wisley.
Young Gardener of the Year
Ten-year-old Fraser White, who attends Dairsie Primary School near St Andrews, was nominated for the award by his teacher and won the prize ahead of hundreds of youngsters from across the UK.
The judges remarked on his huge commitment to the school’s community garden. “Fraser clearly loves coming into school to work in the garden and has dedicated himself to sharing his enthusiasm with the rest of the school and the wider community,” said judge and TV gardener Frances Tophill.
Other awards in the RHS School Gardening competition went to David Nicol, a science teacher at a secure unit for young people in Glasgow, who was named School Gardening Champion; and the School Gardening Team of the Year went to a 31-strong group of secondary school pupils from Hammersmith in London, who turned a grey area of the school grounds into a thriving garden.
