An educational display focusing on health eating has won a gold medal at the Chelsea Flower Show.

Hadlow College designed the award-winning stand, titled Phyting Fit, which came top in the Educational and Scientific category from the Royal Horticultural Society.

The display shows how eating fruit and vegetables can help prevent heart disease and cancer, and highlights the various phytochemicals which amateur gardeners can find in home-grown produce.

Dr Lindsay Pamphilon, programme area leader in horticulture at the college, said: 'With our college moving into alternative plant production, including medicinal herbs, our Chelsea exhibit is a launch pad for our new degree in Medicinal Horticulture which commences in September.' Visitors to the display encountered a demonstration vegetable garden, complete with a sleeping gardener in a deckchair. Pat Feast, Brian Patey and Liz Harris, from different departments at Hadlow College, were behind the design.

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