Public voting has now ended and we are pleased to announce the award winners for 2008! Please see our award winners below.
Shoot People's Garden Awards Winners 2008
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Gold Winner Jenny's Courtyard belonging to Jenny O'Donovan |
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Silver Gilt Winner My garden belonging to Palustris Katz |
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Silver Winner My garden belonging to Debbie Burt |
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Bronze Winner Annie and Gerald's garden belonging to Annie Eagle |
Shoot's Childrens Garden Award
Bulter Centre School Garden belonging to Juliet Teare
The short-list of nominees were:
The garden at
28 Kensington Road, Bristol.U.K belonging to Grenville
Johnson
Jenny's Courtyard
belonging to Jenny O'Donovan
Little piece of
paradise belonging to Jacqui Broadbridge
Annie and
Gerald's garden belonging to Annie Eagle
Anthony &
Barbara's Cottage Garden belonging to Anthony Ellis
Over the wall at
Barton Cottage belonging to Colin Pilcher
My garden
belonging to Gill Bourbage
Lang Rigg' on the
Forth belonging to Kelly Faughnan
My garden
belonging to Margaret Armitage
My garden
belonging to Palustris Katz
My garden
belonging to Debbie Burt
My garden
belonging to Diane Clayton-Smith
Shoot's Childrens Garden Award
Bulter Centre School Garden belonging to Juliet Teare
The Awards:
For the second year running, we are giving green-fingered gardening enthusiasts the opportunity to receive recognition for their garden with the Shoot People's Garden Awards. No matter how big or how small your garden, you are eligible to win if you share your beautiful garden with other like-minded gardeners in our member's directory. See last year's winners by clicking here.
Prizes:
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Gold £1,000 worth of garden vouchers |
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Silver Gilt £500 worth of garden vouchers |
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Silver £300 worth of garden vouchers |
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Bronze £100 worth of garden vouchers |
In 2008 we are also adding a new category called Shoot's Childrens Garden Award worth £300 of garden vouchers aimed at childrens gardening initiatives in schools.
The criteria:
1. Overall impression - the garden's visual impact and
originality
2. Overall design - unity, balance and scale
3. Construction quality - the garden's overall construction and
finish. It's important to get the balance right and overuse of hard
landscaping can count against a garden
4. Planting design - the use of colour, texture, association,
relevance to the overall design, quality and finish
For the Children's Award we will also consider children's involvement & learning in a school environment - we will look at their comments and participation with the online gardening planning tools available with Shoot. We also encourage descriptions by the children themselves about what they have gained from their School's gardening initiative.
Entry requirements:
Entrants must publish their garden with a photo and at least 8 plants into the member's directory on shootgardening.co.uk. Publishing your garden is FREE. Open to UK residents only.
Dates:
• Deadline for publishing entries is 31st July 2008
• Short-list nominations of 12 gardens will be announced on 31st
August 2008 by the expert panel
• Voting by the general public will take place during September and
will close on 21st September
• Awards winners will be announced by 30th September
Meet the judges:
Charlotte Rowe
Charlotte Rowe trained as a
landscape designer after many years in senior roles in PR, public
affairs and marketing in London and Sydney. She set up her garden
design studio in London in 2004 after graduating from the Oxford
College of Garden Design with a post-graduate diploma in
Residential Garden Architecture. Since then she has worked on urban
and rural design projects for private clients both in the UK and
overseas. She has designed show gardens at the Urban Gardens Show
in 2005 and at the Daily Telegraph/House and Garden Fair in 2006,
where her Morocco Garden was one of two feature gardens showing how
gardens change from day to night.
Andrew Fisher Tomlin
Andrew Fisher Tomlin trained
in horticulture at Askham Bryan College and is one of the country's
leading garden designers with his company designing gardens across
Europe. Andrew is a past Chairman of the Society of Garden
Designers, the UK's professional body for garden design, and was
named Garden Designer of the Year in 2006. His company is currently
creating what will be the largest roof gardens in the UK and an eco
destination project in Cyprus, amongst many residential
gardens.
Catherine Heatherington
Catherine studied garden
design at Middlesex University and Capel Manor before setting up
her own practice in London. She is a Registered Member of the
Society of Garden Designers and is increasingly known for designs
both urban and rural, which take contemporary ideas into settings
where they link with both architecture and the wider landscape.
Catherine writes regularly for garden design publications and is
the co-author of "A New Naturalism".
