Garden awards 2025
Calling all green thumbs, plant lovers, and garden whisperers! It's time to showcase your garden! Whether you’ve cultivated a cosy urban oasis, a sustainable paradise, collaborated with a local group or your neighbours, or are a dab hand at drawing, these awards are for you!
Get ready to dig deep and make your garden glory known - let the garden greatness begin!
How the garden awards work
There'll be two stages to this competition...
- Regional stage - Four finalists will be chosen from each county (North, East, South, and West Yorkshire). And... they get prizes!
- The finals! - For each award category, one regional finalist will be crowned the dazzling winner of their category.
P.s. Entries close 1st August.
The prizes
16 regional finalists will get a gardening bundle:
- Love2Shop voucher worth £25
- Five packs of seeds
- A hand-painted plant pot
Four of those will be final category winners and will get their green fingers on the ultimate prize, a Yorkshire Housing garden awards trophy and their Love2Shop voucher will be topped up to £100, too!
The awards
This year, we’ve got four categories you can enter…
The Crufts award of the gardening world…your garden will be a sanctuary! It’ll be in tip-top shape, pleasing to the eye, and it’ll feel peaceful and relaxing.
A truly green sanctuary! Your garden will be eco-friendly and full to the brim with sustainable solutions like native plants, water conservation, and reduced waste…the more creative your eco-solutions, the better!
One for the artists! Get creative and show us what your dream garden would look like on paper. Let your imagination run wild…ready, set, create!
A cracking garden created through teamwork. You and your neighbours or other community members will have come together to design, plant and look after a shared outdoor space that you’re really chuffed with.
There'll be up to four winners per category.
Dates for your diary
- Competition closes at 11:59pm on 1st August 2025
- Regional and final judging will happen at Yorkshire Housing between the 12th and 15th August 2025
- Winners will be sent a celebration email by the 29th August 2025
FAQs
You can nominate your own garden if you live in a Yorkshire Housing home.
There’ll be 1 winner per region, per category: North Yorkshire, East Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire.
Regional finalists will get a gardening bundle:
- Love2Shop voucher worth £25
- Five packs of seeds
- A hand-painted plant pot
Final category winners will get their Love2Shop voucher topped up to £100 and a Yorkshire Housing garden awards trophy:
- Best in show trophy
- Sustainable garden trophy
- Drawn garden trophy
- Collaborative garden trophy
Fill out the garden awards entry form and click ‘submit’! Make sure you enter before the competition closes on 1st August 2025 at 11:59pm.
Yes, you can apply for more than one category.
We’ve got a judging panel make up of Yorkshire Housing colleagues and volunteers from Spring Vale Community Garden.
Create your dream garden how you like! Pencil and paper, coloured pencils, marker pens, paints, mixed media, digital illustration or AI are just a few examples of what you could do...the more creative, the better!
Ask a family member or friend to help you if you’re finding the form tricky.
Or if you need us to help you out, we can come along, take photos of your garden and help with the submission! Send us an email to Communityenquiries@yorkshirehousing.co.uk or give us a call on 03453664404 by the 21st of July 2025 and we’ll arrange this with you.