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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.
In the new year I’m going to have a go at growing fresh cut flowers and hopefully will be ready for Mother’s Day. This year was my first time growing from seeds and grew some vegetables which were very satisfying.
Our plans for 2021 are to be more self sufficient with vegetables and have a slightly bigger veg plot. Also to try and learn how to grow a good tomato crop as we never succeed.
I am going to make full use of my greenhouse in 2021. I am going to start off my seeds in batches so they don’t all need transplanting at the same time. I am making a plan so the tall flowers go at the back of the border and the small ones at the front, usually my border is a mix match of plants that I buy because i like them not because they will fit in with my other plants. I am hoping to have a garden to be proud of in 2021
I want to add more structure to our garden, planting lots of bulbs for spring colour and creating space for wildlife too. We already have a bird feeding station but I want to expand on this plating more plants to attract bees and butterflies.
First we will see what survives the winter – the water table is very high at the minute and the bottom of the garden is very boggy! We will then replace what we lose with either the same shrub or a different one which might survive wetter winter conditions better. I want to rationalize our strawberry growing – they are currently in a variety of containers and I want to be able to make more use of the “runners”. We need to get a new arch for the clematis to climb over and sort out the bottom left hand corner of the garden where dogwood is crowding out other plants. The Mahonia needs to be pruned into a better shape as it’s gone a bit wild and we are currently rethinking that whole corner.