Gardening competition

It’s thyme to get involved!

Dig out your gardening gloves

Grab your watering can and spring into action with our new gardening competition.

You don’t need to be an expert gardener to get involved with our garden competition.

Simply tending to your garden, basket, or pots, and giving them a spruce up is just the sort of thing we are looking for. There are different categories, so no matter how big or small your garden is there will be something to suit you.

Pink flower

The categories are:

  • Best communal or shared garden (collective effort of multiple residents)
  • Most improved garden (significant before and after transformation)
  • Best floral display (best creative colour of flowers in bloom)
  • Best small space (window box, hanging basket, balcony or patio - best creative use of a small space)
  • Wildlife champion (created or installed a bee house, bug hotel, bird feeder/bath)
  • Best budding gardener (under 16s - grow bag, container, plant/veg/fruit, wildlife provision)

The prizes

There are three prizes in each category:

  • First prize £50
  • Second Prize £25
  • Third prize £10
Two people trimming plants

How to enter:

  • Please take up to three photos of your garden and send them to us, using our contact form: Housing Service Development contact form
  • Please send the photos as jpgs (or jpegs), with a maximum file size of 1MB per photo
  • Please state which category you are entering: you can only enter one of the categories

The deadline to submit your entries is Sunday 30 June 2024.

Other ways to submit your photos

If you don’t have access to the internet/email

Please send printed copies to:

Elaine Gernon
Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council
Hinckley Hub, Rugby Road
Hinckley LE10 0FR

If you would like help taking, or sending photos

Please contact your housing officer, or introductory tenancy officer who would be happy to help support you, or even take the photos on your behalf.
 

Woman gardening with tomatoes
Wild flowers

The winners

The winners will be selected by our judging panel and winners will be notified in writing.

You must be a Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council council tenant to enter this competition.

If you are winner (first, second or third), we would like to use your photographs for marketing purposes. This will be done with your full permission.