Discover top tips to guide you with clear, easy-to-follow gardening advice and illustrated step-by-step projects and gardening ideas. This fully updated edition includes brand-new visual galleries that showcase a garden throughout the year, with inspirational ideas for achieving colour schemes, your favourite scent, or striking foliage in your garden.

No. The RHS School Gardeners of the Year competition is open to UK residents, excluding i) employees, agents or subcontractors of the RHS, ii) any Competition sponsor or its employees, agents or subcontractors, iii) the immediate families of such employees, agents, subcontractors or sponsors. avoid assumptions of knowledge the judges will have about your nominee or the school gardening they are involved in. Make sure you spell out acronyms the first time you use them Nominations need to be submitted via one of the online nomination forms ( RHS School Gardening Champion of the Year 2023or RHS School Gardening Team of the Year 2023) by 5pm on 27 March 2023. No nominations will be accepted after this time. Whatever your level of skills in the garden, expert advice from the well-known gardener, Ian Spence, will help you keep your garden thriving all year round. RHS Gardening Through The Year is a must-have for anyone who has a green thumb!Keep on top of garden tasks with month-by-month chapters, "Last Chance" reminders, "Get Ahead" tips, and handy to-do lists. This RHS book will make gardening easier by providing helpful guidelines and realistic advice, so you can plan out your time efficiently and effectively.

The individual/team being nominated aren't at a school registered to the RHS Campaign for School Gardening. Can they still be nominated? The Countryside Classroom offers a complete series of ready to go lesson plans for teachers looking to run gardening clubs in KS1 and KS2, including powerpoints. No. The prizes must be accepted as stated and cannot be altered. There will be no cash alternatives. Vouchers cannot be exchanged for their value.My journal is where I write these new ideas down ready for the following season. Sometimes, it’s RHS members telling me their successes with a novel vegetable that sends me to find my pen. So keep fresh, informed and inspired by keeping a garden journal of your own! The person making the nomination must be an adult (age 18 and over) and must be an appointed representative of a school. For example a teacher, teaching assistant, member of the Senior Leadership Team, parent helper or volunteer or a school governor. Can a team or individual who has been a finalist or winner in this competition before be nominated again? There will be ten finalists for the RHS School Gardening Team of the Yearcategory, two of these will be chosen as overall winners for the category. There will be five finalists for the RHS School Gardening Champion of the Yearcategory, one of these finalists will be chosen as the overall category winner.