Katie Rushworth is Alan Titchmarsh new support presenter for Love Your Garden

Katie Rushworth, a student studying Craven College’s Foundation Degree in Garden Design has been selected to be a supporting presenter alongside Alan Titchmarsh on his ITV gardening programme ‘Love your Garden’.

Katie was amongst 90 selected to go to London for auditions earlier this year, she was then short-listed, invited to return for a further interview and successfully offered the job. Filming scheduled for the summer months has already started with two episodes completed and four to go. The first programme in the series is due to go out on ITV1 on 26 June at 8pm. Last year Love Your Garden showed how some of Britain’s best gardens were created. This year they are going one step further - looking to transform ordinary gardens belonging to deserving people around the country.

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

Katie Rushworth 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 – 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 a wide range of horticulture, floristry and garden design qualifications from Entry Level to Foundation Degree.Places are still available for September 2012 including on the Garden Design FdA. If you are interested come and visit the Open Evening for Higher Education, on the 27 June, 5.00-7.00pm, Aireville Campus , Gargrave Road, Skipton. Call 01756 791 411 or visit

www.craven-college.ac.uk for more details.