THE horticultural and maintenance work of Port Sunlight Village Trust has been honoured with a trio of prestigious awards.

Its landscape gardening team earned a silver medal for their display in the Cheshire Gardens of Distinction at this year's RHS Tatton Flower Show.

The trust also received a Green Flag Award in recognition of the high standards of landscape maintenance and excellent visitor facilities in the village and the much-coveted Green Heritage Site Accreditation for care and management of the historic environment.

Katherine Lynch, the trust's director of Heritage said: "This achievement at RHS Tatton is the icing on the cake for what has been a pivotal year for PSVT and the village.

"We have been very fortunate to enjoy some massive successes this year, including winning independent tourism business and small visitor attraction of the year at the Liverpool City Region tourism awards; and more recently the much-coveted Green Flag and Green Heritage Awards to highlight us as one of the very best sites in the UK.

"We look forward to more visitors coming to enjoy our village and seeing what our award winning parks and gardens have to offer."

Celebrating the landscape gardening team's silver medal success at Tatton Park, the group's supervisor, Liam English said: "We are overwhelmed by the result and delighted that all of our hard work over the last few months has really paid off.

"Port Sunlight is the finest garden village in the UK and this year celebrates its 130th anniversary.

"I'm so pleased that the design of the garden truly captured the unique heritage and enduring spirit of this outstanding village"

The garden design highlights Port Sunlight's diversity, showcasing a water feature, a garden gate and original village cobblestones.

A formal area was created using box hedging and arranged with lavender, the informal area was developed using native woodland planting – a key feature of the garden village.

Liam continues: "The whole journey has had its challenges and its an extraordinary accomplishment, from initial planning to transporting over 1000 plants to site and dressing the six metre plot in extreme heat.

"We are thrilled that we have been able to honour the village's 130th year in such a special way."