Today we’re in Phoenix, Maryland, visiting Sally Barker’s beautiful garden:
08.03.2024 - 09:43 / gardenersworld.com
Gardens of the Year 2024, sponsored by Alpen, is now open for entries and we want to see beautiful readers’ gardens of all styles and sizes. If you’d love to see your garden featured in BBC Gardeners’ World magazine and be in with a chance of winning a fantastic holiday prize, enter our exciting competition now. We’re looking for gardens from all over the UK – no plot is too big or too small. Previous finalists have included flower-filled allotments, tiny urban balconies and sprawling country gardens.
We’ll pick out six finalists, all of whom will be featured in the magazine. Our expert judging panel will then award their Judges’ Choice, while you, the readers, will choose our People’s Choice. It could be your garden this year – so, go on, enter now!
Our competition is open for entries until 10 June 2024, which means there’s still plenty of time to assess your space, make any final design or planting tweaks, and send those photos in via our entry form. We need between six and 10 images in total from which to do our in initial in-house judging, from which we’ll choose six finalists.
After we’ve chosen our six finalists, we send a professional photographer to capture the essence of your garden to feature in BBC Gardener’s World Magazine – and to help our panel of judges choose an overall winner.
What you could winAll six finalists will be awarded a professional photoshoot of their garden, and will be featured in BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine in 2024-25.
The winner of the Judges’ Choice Award will receive a TUI Travel Gift Card worth £7,000, while the People’s Choice Award recipient will receive a TUI Travel Gift Card worth £3,000, which can be spent on a variety of travel opportunities including flights, hotels and
Today we’re in Phoenix, Maryland, visiting Sally Barker’s beautiful garden:
Six DVD’s in a boxed set ‘A Year at Kew – The Collection’ (Series 1-3) with Alan Titchmarsh is available from Amazon in time for a Christmas gift. Over 1000 minutes of gardening in a month-by-month journey via the BBC through the world’s greatest botanical garden.
Plant pots are a staple of the garden and are fantastic for displaying your favourite flowers and plants both indoors and out. They’re great for all types of gardens and allow those without the luxury of green space to display their work on balconies, decked areas, and conservatories.
A weed is often described as ‘a plant growing in the wrong place’. But with growing awareness of the many benefits of ‘weeds’ to wildlife, along with the increasing popularity of naturalistic planting styles, the concept of a ‘weed’ is becoming looser, and can vary from one gardener to another.
Today we’re off to Tennessee to visit Lou Ann’s garden:
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1. The Promoter is Immediate Media Company London Limited (company number 06189487), Vineyard House, 44 Brook Green, London W6 7BT (“Immediate”). The competition is sponsored by Weetabix Limited (company number 00267687) (t/a “Alpen”).
We’re back enjoying part two of Cherry Ong’s visit last June to the garden of perennial gardening expert Pam Frost on Vancouver, Canada. Cherry visited as part of a tour organized by the Vancouver Hardy Plant Society.
We’re tagging along with Cherry Ong today, enjoying pictures from a series of garden tours she went on last June, organized by the Vancouver Hardy Plant Society.
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