Winning Ambassadors 2018
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…
Read More...Colour Your Life Winner 2018
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…
Read More...Front Garden Winner 2018
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…
Read More...Small Spaces Winner 2018
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…
Read More...Regional Winners 2018
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…
Read More...Fundraising ideas!
Fundraising can be so much fun and is a fantastic way to help raise a little extra cash to develop and support your garden project. Fundraising has changed over the years- bag packing in your local supermarket has long gone with a bag charge in place and so we’ve drawn up a list of fun…
Read More...The Wonky Garden
The idea for The Wonky Garden came about through friends, meeting at a wellbeing event during cancer treatment, who dreamed of creating beautiful outdoor spaces to nurture nature, educate and have fun. The charity was invited to take on an overgrown site at a community centre in December 2017 and the project has quickly built…
Read More...Reviving the school garden after the holidays!
Unless you’ve been lucky enough to have plenty of volunteers tending your school garden over the holidays, you’ll likely have a lot of work on your hands when the new school year begins. You may even be tempted to leave the garden until spring—but if you do, you could miss out on some great growing…
Read More...Carol Watson – Notcutts Tunbridge Wells
My memorable project I met with the teenagers from Oakley school gardening club, a school that facilitates young adults and children that have communication and learning difficulties, to talk to them about propagation in their school garden in their own polytunel. I chose this subject because it was something they could teach their parents friends &…
Read More...Midfield School Eco Garden
Introduction It began during Easter, 2015, when a couple of teachers who are passionate about getting the children outdoors put together a plan to get the students involved in more activities not classroom based. First they dug some plant beds and started growing vegetables. The school managed to get a bit of funding and some…
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