Fairies help Highland schoolgirl triumph in Tulloch Homes garden competition
A nine-year-old girl has won a garden design competition run by Tulloch Homes.
The homebuilder reached out to pupils at Kirkhill Primary School to transform the garden of their three-bedroom Lochy show home at Highland View, Kirkhill.
Isla Blair (9) incorporated a range of practical and whimsical features in her imaginative design, from a washing line, sprinkler and vegetable patch to a fairy garden, gnomes and candles.
Now her vision is being brought to life by a landscape designer at the show home.
Isla said: “I used to have small toy fairies in my own garden so I included them in my garden. I put a great deal of time into my design – I worked on it from when I came home from school to bedtime and again the next morning before school.
“It’s so exciting that a real garden will be based on my drawing. I’m really looking forward to seeing it.”
Isla was gifted a Hobbycraft voucher and a junior gardener kit. There were three runners-up – Zosia Otreba (7), Lauren Campbell (9) and Leo Korzepa (8) – and the school received a £250 donation.
Tulloch Homes sales and marketing director Jo McLaren said: “We were really impressed with the designs of the pupils at Kirkhill Primary and it was hard to pick a winner.
“Isla showed excellent imagination in her layout, as did the runners-up. We’ll be sourcing fairy sculptures to make Isla’s vision come true.”
