A team of four student garden designers at the Eden Project have won a prestigious national award which will see them creating a show garden at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show this summer.

Their inspirational design is called Tre Wostiwedh – Cornish for ’home at last’ - and is based on the idea of a Cornish miner coming up from the dark depths of the earth and stepping into an exotic garden full of colour and life.

The students, Jenny Booty from Lavendon, Buckinghamshire, Lizz Dobinson from Exeter, Devon, Nicky Shellis from Portreath, Cornwall, and Tim Walker from Snowdonia, Wales, are in their first year on the HND and BSc Garden & Landscape Design courses, taught at Eden, run in collaboration with Cornwall College and awarded by Plymouth University.

They will feature a body of plants evocative of Cornwall and some of the places the miners went to work, including tree ferns, bottle brush and agapanthus.

The students will work alongside staff and landscape contractors to build the garden at Hampton Court, the world’s largest flower show.

The competition, run by the Royal Horticultural Society and BBC Local Radio, called for budding designers to come up with a ’Feel Good Front Garden’ for the show.

The Eden students’ submission is one of four winning designs.