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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.
find room for a pond to attract more nature into the garden growing for wildlife and birds then sitting and just watching and listening to the wonder of it all.
We have recently moved into a house that hadn’t had any work done in a while. We’ve began digging out new beds but still need to remove a weed-filled bed in the centre of the garden. We’re also hoping to lay our own patio. We’d like to plant some leylandi and put in a new fence at the back of the garden and there’s a suspicious mound that needs levelling behind the shed!
I am hoping to transform my garden this year. I have lots of plans to pull down fences, install a pond, benches etc. to make it a tranquil space to enjoy.
The back garden is currently a disaster but in 2021 that will change. It’s a small garden and things will have to be done on a budget but it should be wonderful once done. The garden is rectangular with a path down the middle. On the left we will have a raised bed (my teenager wants to grow vegetables- tomatoes, peas, beans and gourds) and we will have small plum and apple trees behind this (with summer clemati growing through them). Next to this a quarter of the garden will be dug out to make a wild life friendly pond – surrounded by irises and marshy plants with huge leaves and with a water lily or two. Later on when money permits a little recirculating fountain via a terracotta dolphin is on the wish list. On the other side there will be red, orange and deep pink roses against the fence. These will be filled with purple clemati and the bed in front will be planted with vibrantly coloured perennials- deep pink phlox, tall violet verbenas, deep purple agapanthus, archilleas, campanula glomerata, salvias, heleniums, rudbeckias, crocosima lucifer, yellow and pink loosestrife, silver grasses and silver dust. These will be interspersed with summer bulbs (jewel gladioli and dahlias, sadly lilies a no-no with the new cat, and variegated and deep purple leaved cannas for a tropical feel). At the start of the path by the house here are two small beds flanking a bench which looks out onto the garden and these will have spring and winter plants – heathers, cyclamens, a skimmia, daphne and azaleas, and small spring bulbs (snowdrops, crocuses, irises, bluebells and hyacinths). At the far end of the garden the shed will need to be replaced and a patio area made, but that is for another year, and throughput there will be bird feeders, an insect and bat house and fairy lights “french cafe” style through the shrubs to light up the summer evenings whilst we watch the dragonflies hover over the pond and listen to the bats out foraging for their dinner at dusk.
I’m moving house and leaving behind my beloved wild life haven so I fully intend to plant wild flowers and lavender in my new garden as soon as I can.