Do you have a front garden you’re proud of? Are you rethinking your front green space? Is your balcony green and buzzing with nature? Love garden competition? Do you love nature, birds and mini beasts? Then the Ealing Biodiverse Front Gardens and Balconies Competition is for you!
In collaboration with Cultivating Ealing and Ealing Council, ActForEaling has a brand new competition to find the most beautiful, biodiverse front gardens in the borough! It is free for residents to enter and there are cash prizes up for grabs for each categories.
The eight garden competition categories are:
- Front gardens (small)
- Front gardens (large)
- Micro gardens & balconies (including terraces, narrow boats and other similar spaces)
- Edible front gardens
- Street or community garden
- Driveway transformation
- Schools
- Allotments
With over 75,000 front gardens throughout the borough and countless more balconies and terraces, together there is a huge opportunity for them to be thriving nature, biodiverse and bug friendly spaces. Plants are superheroes, they reduce pollution, absorb carbon, combat flooding, cool excessive urban temperatures, provide food to pollinators and create homes for minibeasts. We want to find the Ealing front gardens that are colourful and buzzing with nature and biodiversity.
Enter the garden competition
The Ealing Biodiverse Front Gardens and Balconies Competition is free and open to anyone that lives in Ealing borough. The entry must be a front garden or balcony that can be seen from the pavement or a communal garden.
You will need and upload onto website:
- 3 photos of your garden or space, including one close-up of a special feature and two wider shots of the garden
- If entering the driveway transformation, you need 3 photos before and 3 after
- Description of your entry, including details like how long you have had the garden, time it takes to maintain and what makes it wildlife friendly
Deadline for entries for 1-6 categories is 23:59 on 14 July 2024. The deadline for Schools category is 23:59 on 30 May and for the Allotments category 23:59 on 3 June.
The Competition terms and conditions
A panel of judges will create a shortlist for each category and then visit in person to decide the winners. They will then email you if you win.
The Ealing Biodiverse Front Gardens and Balconies competition aims to celebrate and inspire a greener and more biodiverse community. If you are just starting out there are plenty of Biodiverse Front Gardens and Balconies – Ideas and Tips to get you started.
Ealing has some great residents transforming their spaces:
One Ealing resident created a cottage garden, growing fruit and veg in the front garden:
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I grow a great variety of produce [in my front garden], making my family self-sufficient in vegetables for almost seven months of the year.
Juliet transformed added a front garden driveway:
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“We gave a lot of thought as to how to add greenery and minimise impermeable materials.”
“The birds, bees, and insects love our eco-driveway and it gives us great pleasure, too.”
Lets get Ealing borough with more green spaces and increase our nature and biodiversity. Take a some photos of your green spaces and enter them into the Biodiverse Front Gardens and Balconies Competition.
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