Schools Show Garden Competition

Schools Show Garden Competition

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Launched in 2015, the Schools Show Garden Competition gives schools the opportunity to design and build a 1.5m x 1m show garden to reflect the theme which is different every year.

The theme for 2025 is “A Garden Showcasing our Favourite Book”

A wooden box (including lining and compost) is delivered to your school and then design work, planning and creation takes place in your school. The gardens are then collected by the Suffolk Show team and taken to Trinity Park for the two-day event in May half-term. The gardens will be judged on the first day of the Show, Wednesday 28 May 2025, when the winner of the competition will be crowned. As well as the wooden box, lining and compost, the following is available to schools:

• £75 worth of shrubs, plants, seeds etc are available to schools to spend with a local plant nursery.
• Sue Knight and Linda Orford, SAA volunteer stewards, who look after the Flower and Garden Show are happy to visit your school and provide their expertise and advice to assist schools in the planning and design process. 

Additional information and a link to apply will be emailed to your school in October 2024.

For more information please email Hannah Woods

Below you will find examples of some of the gardens designed and built by schools in 2022, 2023 and 2024:

2024 Competition - An Olympic Themed Garden

Winning School - Mendham Primary Academy

2023 Competition - A Garden Fit for a King

Winning School - Walsham le Willows

2022 Competition - A Garden for All Seasons

Winning School - Bawdsey Primary School