HORTICULTURE student Owen Groves, who studies at Pershore College, has won the regional round of the Young Horticulturist of the Year Award.

He is now through to the national final at the University of Liverpool on Saturday, April 13.

The 23-year-old BSc student, from Fairwater, Cardiff, will be cheered on by classmate Douglas Mackay, who won the coveted accolade last year.