Amy Drewitt, a project manager and garden design student from Sunningdale, has won Best Beautiful Border and a Platinum award at the BBC Gardeners’ World Autumn Fair.

The designer scooped a second accolade as winner of the BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Subscriber Border Award.

Her winning design, The Daisy Chain, was inspired by her thoughts on how a family shares a garden space and is designed to connect all generations of a family through exploration, nature and play.

This year’s Beautiful Border theme was ‘Share My Space’, highlighting the power of gardening to create a sense of community.

Highlights include soft planting and sensory elements like sound cushions, a pool with a solar fountain and birch tree trunk seating that doubles as a play tunnel and balance beam.

Drewitt, who is studying with the British Academy of Garden Design, says: “I wanted this space to feel inviting rather than somewhere children would be told to stay off the lawn or away from the plants.

“I’m blown away by winning this award and really can’t believe it’s happened.

“Creating a Beautiful Border for the BBC Gardeners’ World Autumn Fair has been an amazing experience and I’ve learnt so much from everyone involved.”

The Beautiful Borders are compact three by three-meter miniature show gardens, imaginatively designed and planted.

Assessors for the award were gardening editor, horticulturalist and journalist, Ian Hodgson, and award-winning garden designers, Pip Probert from BBC Two’s Your Garden Made Perfect and Mike Baldwin.

Best Interpretation of the Theme was awarded to Chelmsford horticulturalist Zoe Defoe for her border, Talk in Space.

Defoe lives with Addison’s disease, a rare adrenal disorder, and will use the garden to raise awareness and funds for the Addison’s Disease Self Help Group charity which supports people living with the disorder.

Receiving her award, Defoe says: “I’ve loved building the border and it feels amazing to have won this award.

“I’m so excited that my interpretation of the theme was appreciated by the assessors.

“My border is a space for people to sit together and talk which represents what the Addison’s Disease Self Help Group does.”

The design highlights the mental health and therapeutic benefits of sharing space and conversation, surrounded by nature, and features a central firepit with Phormium ‘flames’ surrounded by log seats, mounted planets and dry planting.

Rachel Poletti-Gadd, portfolio director – gardening division at Immediate Live, organisers of the BBC Gardeners’ World Autumn Fair, was utterly thrilled by the entries and congratulated the two victors on their award.

Poletti-Gadd says: “The Beautiful Borders never fail to impress and always inspire visitors with their creativity. We’ve been thrilled at the number and quality of entries this year.

“Our congratulations to Amy and Zoe for their fantastic borders which we know will spark new ideas for Autumn Fair visitors.”