Every year we encourage our tenants and leaseholders to enter our garden competition. Take part if you are a keen gardener with a talent for growing plants and you take pride in your garden.
You could have a large wildflower garden, a small vegetable patch or a few pots and tubs by your front door. Whatever size your garden is, we want you to enter.
Winners will be invited along to a prize-giving event, and announced in our Open Door magazine. Plus, there are garden centre vouchers to be won!
Judging will be based on effort, creativity, sustainability, colour, form, variety and health of plants.
We are committed to supporting biodiversity across the city and encourage you to do so in your garden. Read our biodiversity pages to find out more.
2025 competition
This year, competition categories include:
- baskets and tubs – gardens with a display of different hanging baskets and tubs
- community gardens – gardens created and maintained by a group of people
- environmentally friendly gardens – gardens showing the use of upcycling or recycling and where no herbicide, pesticide or fungicide has been used
- kitchen gardens – gardens with some fruit and veg or other edible plants
- wildlife gardens – gardens designed to attract and provide a haven for wildlife
- new gardens – newly established gardens or newcomers to the competition
- young gardeners – someone under the age of 18 must have had significant input into the garden
- small gardens – a category to celebrate creativity in small spaces
- tallest sunflower
You can enter as many categories as you like – or the judges can choose for you when they visit your garden.
We will visit and photograph your garden on judging day, and award prizes in September.
- Friday 20 June: Closing date for entrants
- Wednesday 16 July: Judging day
- September 2025 (date to be confirmed): Prize-giving event
