INSIDE YOUR GARDENS

Over a thousand of you entered our Gardens of the Year Competition 2020, and we loved seeing your photos and reading about gardens of all
shapes and sizes. It has been a privilege to be welcomed into your gardens and discover what they mean to you. You’ve shared with us how your
gardens have been more vital than ever this year, providing places of sanctuary, creative expression and a space for growth. Here, we share just
a small selection of the entries. Head to gardenersworld.com/garden-competition to see even more of your special and unique gardens.

As the owner of
tricky garden, and
adoptive parent to three
now-grown children
with complex needs,
I thrive on challenge.
With patience, help from
Angie Hart friends and the ability to
East Sussex delight in growth, I can
On a cliff-top site with dry,
say I’m very proud of
chalky soil and salty winds, Angie
has made the most of the sea what and who both the
views, with a vision of creating a arden and children
hybrid of Derek Jarman’s shingle ave become.
paradise in Dungeness and
Monet’s Giverny garden.

I’m now the same

age as my father when
he passed away 30 years
ago, and I feel a real
connection to him out
here. We grow his
avourite yellow rose up
Karen Spencer
is shed to remember
Norfolk
An ordinary plot that’s been
him and know he would
transformed into a colourful, be so very proud of all
tropical paradise. And with mum we’ve done.
living next door, Karen has turned
some of the garden her father
used to tend into an allotment
full of vegetables and fruit trees.

My garden is my soul
mate, she’s mischievous
nd definitely female.
I know so many people
who garden through loss
– it keeps them sane and
stops them from being
Sadie Janice Levine lonely. You care for your
SCHOFIELD GARDEN PHOTOS: RAY COX

Middlesex garden, but without

On a tight budget, Sadie knowing it your garden
transformed the neglected space
behind her home, creating a
is taking care of you.
playground for her children and
an emotional safe space for
herself, following the loss of her
daughter Carla, at 11 days old.

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