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It's been a difficult year, for all of us. Our gardens, allotments and outdoor spaces have been more important than ever, providing a refuge, a welcome distraction, and a chance to enjoy the comfort that plants and nature provide.
Like us, you're probably already planning how you can make next year's garden even better, more productive and more beautiful.
Now your grand designs for 2021 can win you your choice of gardening prize - and hopefully inspire us all to even bigger and better gardening success in the coming year!
The best gardening aspiration will win your choice of gorgeous gardening prize, both with a value of around £90. You can choose either the Avid Allotmenteer pack, which includes some of our best-selling grow-your-own favourites:
- Japanese Razor Hoe
- Express Hoe
- Waterfall 5L watering can in British Racing Green
- ‘The Allotmenteer’ enamel mug
Or you might plump for the Gorgeous Gardener pack, which will help you nurture your own personal green oasis in style:
- Sophie Conran for Burgon & Ball trowel
- Sophie Conran for Burgon & Ball hand fork
- Sophie Conran for Burgon & Ball precision secateur
- Sophie Conran for Burgon & Ball greenhouse and indoor watering can in blue
THIS GIVEAWAY HAS NOW CLOSED
How to enter
All you need to do to enter is to leave a comment on this blog, briefly outlining your plans for your garden in 2021. Scroll to the bottom of this page to comment (your email address won't be published). You’ll also need to be a subscriber to our monthly email newsletter to be a winner, so if you're not already signed up, fill in your email address in the grey band right at the bottom of this page. You can unsubscribe at any time if you don’t enjoy our monthly updates.
Your plans for your 2021 garden might be simple - ours is to plant more white flowers in the wildlife bed, to keep the all-day buffet going after dark so the moths can enjoy it too. You may want to grow more of your own fruit and veg next year, or branch out into new and unusual crops. Perhaps you have your eye on trying some heritage varieties of familiar favourites.
Or you might have grander plans - a new greenhouse, perhaps, to accommodate the ever-growing plant population in your garden. Or perhaps grander still, if you're lucky enough to have the space to play with - maybe a wildlife pond, landscaping a terrace on a gradient, or planting a copse of native trees... Whatever gardening vision you see in your mind's eye, we'd love to hear about it!
The small print
Gardening grand designs, December 2020
This giveaway is open to UK residents over the age of 18 only. No purchase necessary. No cash alternative is available. The winner will be chosen on the basis of the most inspiring gardening plans for 2021 and the judges’ decision will be final. One winner will receive one (1) pack of gardening tools from Burgon & Ball, either the Avid Allotmenteer of the Gorgeous Gardener prize as outlined above. Prize draw opens at 00:01 on 28/12/2020 and closes at 23:59 on 03/01/2021. Winner will be contacted by Burgon & Ball shortly after the closing date. Employees of Burgon & Ball and their family members aren’t eligible to win. One entry per person; entries created by a bot or a service that automatically enters participants are not eligible to win. We draw your attention to our privacy policy here. Please note that due to the current exceptional circumstances arising from the Covid-19 virus and associated global supply chain issues, it may take longer than the usual 28 days to despatch the prize to the winner. Where necessary, an alternative tools of equal or greater value may be substituted where a tool is unavailable.
We are moving to a newly built house in a couple of months and I can’t wait to plan my whole new garden, I will definitely have a section for a rose garden. Fun but expensive xx
Just before lockdown we got our forever home. It required a total back-to-brick renovation and everything took longer & cost more because of the restrictions, difficulty getting trades in, deliveries & services supplied. This year we will focus on the garden work. It is the first time we have ever had a private garden so we have big plans for lots of mindful planting. We plan to plant everything with pollinating insects and wildlife in mind, to add bird and bat boxes, birdbaths, insect hotels, maybe even beehives + squirrel-friendly feeders & small bowls to leave sweetened water, juice or squash out for wasps etc. His business partner seems to think ‘our’ greenhouse is ‘ours’, as in the 3 of us; he is a very keen gardener with an encyclopedic knowledge of plants so will be a huge help to me and we don’t mind sharing with such a good friend. There will be trellis on walls, vines, living walls and roof, step-over fruiting trees, proper vegetable garden, raised planters, zigzag guttering for salad plants, all sort of things in pots in the garden & the greenhouse. This will be our version of the good life and we intend to seize every opportunity to build a happier, healthier future, to live as close to the dream as we can. I’m looking forward to seeing the garden with lots of flowers, the trees in-leaf with birds nesting & being able to eat crops we have grown ourselves. The garden is enclosed so not suitable for wild hedgehogs but we have spoken to a couple of animal rescues about the possibility of offering a home to a couple of blind or disabled hedgehogs – we’d provide houses & hibernation places/materials along with daily food & fresh water. In turn they would have a safe garden to explore and might even help us out by feeding on slugs and other things that go after our crops, so it could be a mutually beneficial relationship…we’d like to give them a chance at least. The other thing I’ll be getting is a large plant pot that will house a lemon tree – my nan’s ashes will be mixed with the compost – lemons can be used for sweet things like lemon drizzle cakes or homemade lemonade but are also bitter – perfect for nan and I think she’d see the funny side – she wouldn’t appreciate having sat in a box in the cupboard for the last couple of years so will contribute towards new life soon!
For Christmas I received some San Marzano tomato seeds and Greek Oregano seeds so I’m really looking forward to planting those and having the most epic greek salad in the summer! I’d also like to clear some of the weeds around the garden shed and plant climbing roses there instead – that’ll be just beautiful to look at from the kitchen.
I’m looking to create a paved quiet area with a bench so any of us can take time out. I’m also looking to grow some vegetables and herbs – a tree blew down earlier in the year and now I have some extra space to utilise.
My small allotment has been such a wonderful reprieve in these turbulent days. I am now very excited to grow all the vegetables and flowers from seed this year and start a wildlife pond. The hole has been dug!