KLC News - 2009 > KLC Garden Design Awards Ceremony

Special guest speaker Rod Giddins, Palaces Group Director of Historic Royal Palaces

This Year's Sponsors

KLC would also like to very much thank the following for their kind sponsorship of this year’s award ceremony:

At the close of our academic year, the Awards Ceremony at Hampton Court Palace on 15 December 2009 celebrated the outstanding achievement of our garden design students.

KLC would very much like to thank everyone involved in the ceremony this year, including our special guest speaker Rod Giddins, Palaces Group Director of Historic Royal Palaces.

KLC Awards

Please click the tabs below to see the names of all the winners in the various categories:

Top Garden Design Student

Christiana Von Burkersroda

Highly commended
Jan Lewis & Amanda Dawes

Presented by Juliet Roberts, Editor of the Gardens illustrated Magazine

Top Designing with Plants Student

Sheena Cormack

Highly commended
Annette Lepple

Presented by Tamsin Westhorpe, Editor of the English Garden Magazine

Fittleworth Village School

Matthew Childs

Presented by Graham Bloomfield, Head Teacher Fittleworth Village School

Conservation Department Historic and Royal Palaces
‘A Garden To Dye For’

Melinda O’Driscoll

Presented by Chloe Hesketh, Conservation Technician Historic Royal Palaces

The Royal Ballet School

Eleonora di Martino

Presented by Ian Cordery, Estate Manager The Royal Ballet School

Sensory Garden

Matthew Childs
Rosie Nottage

Presented by Terry Gough, Head of Gardens & Estates Hampton Court Palace

Computers Unlimited on behalf of Nemetschek NA Award for Computer Aided Design

Theresa Kroell

Presented by Andy Jelfs, 3D Design Sales Manager Computers Unlimited

Great Dixter Award for Planting Design

Beth Atkinson

Presented by Fergus Garrett, The Head Gardener Great Dixter House Gardens & Nurseries

For Personal Achievement

Beth Atkinson

Presented by Annie Guilfoyle, Director of Garden Design for KLC

Professionalism throughout the course

Rosie Nottage

Presented by Annie Guilfoyle, Director of Garden Design for KLC

Students of the Year

1. Matthew Childs
2. Melinda O'Driscoll

The Top 2 Design Students of the Year scored the highest marks for their project work to become the top achieving students of 2009

Photos From The Awards Ceremony

Awards Ceremony Video

A celebration of student life at Hampton Court Palace as featured at the Awards Ceremony 2009.

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