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The Community Garden category encompasses fantastic and inspiring community gardening projects and people who are making their local area a greener place to live. We are not looking for designer gardens and horticultural skills – we want entries bursting with community spirit and inspiration.   The prize for this category is: Overall winner – £5,000…

The schools category highlights schools that have been dedicated and involved the children and/or teenagers to create an inspirational school garden. The garden can be edible or ornamental and new or well-established. The school should also be able demonstrate that it is teaching children how to garden and interact with nature. This award is open…

This award is for the Garden Centre Ambassadors who have been the most engaged with community and school gardening projects in their local area. In order to credit more of the incredible efforts made by our ambassadors this year there are three winners and 12 runners up. These people are passionate ambassadors who have developed…

A special category this year was the Colour Your Life category, sponsored by Calliope®. The only guidelines for this category were to create and imaginative and stunning display that included vibrant red Calliope® geraniums. After receiving so many stunning designs we decided to double the prizes we had to give away. As a result, there…

The Front Garden category highlights a street full of pride, as people forge stunning front gardens together. To be eligible applicants must have entered at least three consecutive front gardens. The prize available for this category is £500 + 100 Calliope Geraniums. All the 2018 shortlisted front gardens can be found at the bottom of…

The small spaces award is for the best small garden project. We were looking for an area that has been transformed into an inspiring mini garden, wherever that may be. In the past we’ve had balconies, an allotment patch, a holiday caravan plot and even a narrow boat roof! The small spaces category is an…

The Community Garden category encompasses fantastic and inspiring community gardening projects and people who are making their local area a greener place to live. We are not looking for designer gardens and horticultural skills – we want entries bursting with community spirit and inspiration. The prizes for this category are: Overall winner – £5,000 1st…

I was fortunate enough to go to the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show on media day (2nd July). The gardens were stunning, like the weather. I had a really good day and so wanted to share my highlights with you, many of which I hope will give you, the Cultivation Street readers, ideas or will…

The Moseley in Bloom schools project Moseley in Bloom has a new initiative to develop partnerships with local schools. The team at Moseley in Bloom want to encourage pupils, teachers, parents and governors to work together to create and sustain ‘greening’ projects on school sites. Their hope is that these projects will inspire pupils to…