Do you have a green thumb?
Do you live in Campbelltown?
Do you want the chance to share in almost $5,000 of prizes?
If you answered yes to all of the above, what are you waiting for?
The annual Campbelltown City Garden Competition is growing in popularity as residents who take pride in their outdoors handiwork vie for the opportunity to show off their beautiful patch.
And win prizes, of course.
And with 12 categories to choose from, there’s bound to be one that suits every kind of green thumb.
It doesn’t matter if your specialty is perfecting beautiful blooms, creating tranquility on the terrace or beautifying a balcony.
So, gardeners of all ages, pull on the gardening gloves and start to primp and prune for this year’s competition.
With almost $5000 in prizes up for grabs, you could say local gardeners would be blooming mad to miss out.
Prizes include $1,300 for the overall winner, $600 for the runner up, $200 each for the 12 category winners and $50 for each of the 12 runners up.
Entries close Monday, September 5, so there’s plenty of time for residents, schools and businesses to prepare before judging takes place between September 12 and 23.
CATEGORIES:
• Anne Haddock Best Cottage Garden – informal gardens featuring flowering plants and an unstructured design.
• Best New Garden – gardens that are part of a house built within the last three years.
• Most Unusual Garden – this category is open to gardens that feature an interesting use of plants and materials or that are built around a theme.
• Best Sustainable Garden – a garden that incorporates the principles of sustainability including water saving initiatives, material recycling/reusing, sustainable planting and more.
• Best Native Garden – for the garden which makes the best use of native plants including trees, shrubs, groundcover and grasses.
• Best Edible Garden – calling residents who love to eat what they grow. This category is open to residents who have an edible garden of fruit, vegetables and/or herbs.
• Best Small/Medium Garden – this category is for any garden with a street frontage of 18 metres or less.
• Best Large Garden – entrants in this category will have a garden with a street frontage of 19 metres or more.
• Best Senior Citizen Garden – this category is open to residents who are over 60 years of age on September 5.
• Best Backyard – highlighting the hard work of gardeners who have a beautiful backyard of any size.
• Best Commercial/Industrial Garden – industrial businesses, retail shops, business centres, retirement villages, shopping centres and hospitals are encouraged to enter.
• Best Educational Facility Garden – for educational facilities with grounds that incorporate gardens.
♦ For more information or to enter online, click here.
