A GREEN-fingered teenager from Kings Coughton is celebrating not only the opening of a new sensory garden she designed for Alcester but also a place at a BBC garden show.

Charlotte Newitt, 18, started to design the sensory garden at St Nicholas Church, which allows blind and deaf people to enjoy the experience, at the tender age of 14.

The garden was officially opened in May by the chairman of the Heart of England Tourist Board Sir William Lawrence OBE and Charlotte was proud to have her work on display.

“I’ve been interested in gardening ever since I was little. I always helped my mum in the garden and it started from there,” she said.

“The sensory garden was one of my first designs and I was glad to help when the churchyard committee asked me to.”

Charlotte will also be part of BBC Gardeners’ World Live 2007 at the NEC in Birmingham this month and will have her very own show garden which she designed and built herself.
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“I’m looking forward to showing off what I can do,” she added.

By David Searle source : www.redditchadvertiser.co.uk