Trucker-to-be grows a hobby for Spring Garden Comp
THE Warwick Horticultural Society has finished up with its Spring Gardening Competition, highlighting the budding talent hidden among gardeners in the Rose City.
Matthew Meek is the unlikely green thumb behind his family's garden.
What was once just a dirt patch is now filled to the brim with colourful blooms such as roses, pansies, violas and carnations.
He won second prize in the new house and garden category of the Spring Gardening contest and the novice award at St Mark's Rose Festival.
"If you can grow a plant you can garden," he said.
"My mum and dad don't garden but me, my pop and nan are green thumbs.
"I'm very happy with it.
"I've added in all the statues and solar-powered lights along the garden bed too. It just gives more colour to the front of the house."
A senior at Assumption College, 17-year-old Matthew said he would take up driving trucks when he graduates but hoped to continue gardening as a hobby.
He said the recent warm spell was a worry for the newly introduced flowers to the garden bed."Some of them are newly planted but a number of the roses were here from last year," Matthew said. I trimmed them back for winter and fed them up again with seasol, potash and organic fertiliser."
Catch more local gardening gems at the Spring Flower Show starting at St Mary's Hall tomorrow from 10am.
