TWO landscape architect students have won a Royal Horticultural Society competition to design a new learning garden at RHS Garden Bridgewater.

Stella Yang and Karsan Karavadra, from Manchester Metropolitan University, will see their winning design come to life within the RHS’s planned fifth garden.

The learning garden will be created within the historic 11-acre Walled Garden, one of the largest of its kind in the UK. It will sit alongside a Kitchen Garden designed by RHS Chelsea Flower Show gold medallists Charlotte Harris and Hugo Bugg; a Paradise Garden designed by renowned Landscape Architect Tom Stuart-Smith; a wellbeing garden and community teaching allotments. The Walled Garden, supported by the The Garfield Weston Foundation, forms part of the wider masterplan for the 153-acre garden, also created by Tom Stuart-Smith. The students’ design, called ‘The Plant Factory, is based on the idea of plants as machines and will teach all ages about the nature of plants and how they work.