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3D Design and Craft student Jim Kernott competes in major new Netflix gardening show

The Netflicks show available from Monday 18 May. Jim and Ralph will be among the pairs of enthusiastic amateur gardeners competing for the opportunity to create a large scale flower sculpture at London’s Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew.

This gardening equivalent to British Bake off is Presented by comedians Vic Reeves and Natasia Demetriou and judged by celebrity florist Kristen Griffith-VanderYacht, each week contestants are faced with a new challenge, with one elimination after each task.

Jim,is  a second year 3D Design and Craft BA(Hons) student is working with his dad Ralph, who is a groundsman at a private school in Eastbourne and has a City & Guilds qualification in horticulture. This follows a trip to Normandy last year, tin their 1940s army truck for the D-Day commemorations after a five-year restoration of the vehicle.

Jim said: “Through Dad I grew up with a love of the outdoors but I didn’t love gardening so much. I was always the one who had to clear up after Dad had cut a hedge or whatever. That was a labour of love! This show is right up our street: it combines what we both do.

“We didn’t feel competitive to begin with, but as the challenges went on, we did want it more and more. It’s not against the others particularly. You just want to keep on doing your best.

“Nan might be a bit annoyed about the judges! It’s constructive criticism, which is really helpful, and you learn and adjust. But to my Nan, she’ll be like, ‘How dare they say that to my little boys!’”

View The Big Flower Fight trailer and watch on Netflix from Monday 18 May.

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