What Katie did next after winning was team up with Titchmarsh for TV show

A GREEN-FINGERED student from a Yorkshire College has won a national competition to be a supporting presenter alongside Alan Titchmarsh on his ITV programme Love your Garden which hits the screens later this month.

Katie Rushworth, who is studying Craven College’s foundation degree in garden design, was among 90 selected to go to London for auditions earlier this year.

She was then short-listed, invited to return for a further interview and then discovered that she had got the job.

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Filming scheduled for the summer months has already started with two episodes completed and four more to go.

The first programme in the series is due to be broadcast on ITV1 on Tuesday, June 26 at 8pm.

Last year Love Your Garden showed how some of Britain’s best gardens were created.

This year the programme is taking on a different kind of challenge as the team look to transform ordinary gardens belonging to deserving people around the country.

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Craven College say Katie is a valued member of her group and was part of its Premier Award winning garden design team at Harrogate Spring Flower Show last year.

She said: “Making Love Your Garden with Alan Titchmarsh is a really exciting, wonderful, amazing experience for me and I have been so pleased to relay some of that excitement of working with Alan on the show back to my friends on the course at Craven College.

“I got into gardening quite by chance and discovered I had a talent for it.

“Last year it was a Premier Award at the Harrogate Spring Flower Show with the College, this year Love Your Garden with Alan Titchmarsh.

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“I can’t wait to see what the future holds for the final year of my foundation degree in garden design.

“As well as these highlights the course has been fantastic helping me to develop my design skills – just what I wanted for my new business: The Queen of Spades.”

Craven College offers horticulture, floristry and garden design qualifications from entry level to foundation degree.

Places are still available for September 2012 including on the garden design foundation degree which Katie is currently studying.

The college is hosting an open evening for its higher education courses, on Wednesday June 27 between 5pm and 7pm at its Aireville Campus in Gargrave Road, Skipton.

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