TO CELEBRATE the launch of The Westmorland Gazette Gardening Club, we have teamed up with top London designer Nicky Roeber to offer one lucky reader a garden of their dreams worth ten thousand pounds!

Your garden will be transformed and whether it be a pond, patio, new lawn, or redesigned flower borders you are after, Nicky Roeber's team can give you it all! Nicky will tailor your dream garden and then leave the hard work to his team.

The garden makeover, worth thousands of pounds, will include: l A design drawn up especially to suit your garden by a top designer.

l Plants, garden accessories, fencing, water features etc, all provided by The Westmorland Gazette Gardening Club.

l All necessary labour to be provided by The Westmorland Gazette Gardening Club.

Gardening has always been a passion for Nicky.

From a small boy planting radishes in the garden of his parents' Victorian house in London, he could always see himself happily working outdoors.

Today, he is one of the leading garden designers of his generation, with celebrity clients which include actor Simon Callow and Four Weddings and a Funeral writer Richard Curtis.

He has even been honoured with a place in Harpers & Queen magazine's garden designer A-list.

Nicky formed dig-it.co.uk for contemporary on-line garden design last year with business partner Erica Robb.

The web site includes a question and answer gardening service, an informative magazine on-line and their own stock and plants via a partnership with a nursery.

"We both felt that there was a real gap in the market for a gardening solution for those people who were clean fingered and not green fingered, who didn' t want to spend hours pottering about but wanted solutions," he says.

"The garden is very much an extension of interior style.

It is, after all, an outdoor living room", he adds.

The key to designing a garden, he says, is listening to a client and ensuring any work blends in with the house.

"It's not a case of allowing my ego to get the better of me.

The agenda is to create something that is right for that person or their needs".

To enter the competition all you need to do is simply answer the questions published in The Westmorland Gazette this week and subsequent questions which will be printed during the next three weeks.

Then fill in the entry form below and send to: The Westmorland Gazette Gardening Club Competition, 22 Stricklandgate, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 4NE.

Closing date for all entries is August 24, 2001.

Usual Gazette competition rules apply and the Editor's decision is final.

Question Week 1: Who will design the winning garden in our competition?