ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
Image credit : RHS / Guy Harrop
RHS PARTNER GARDEN OF THE YEAR COMPETITION 2024
The Royal Horticultural Society is inviting millions of garden lovers across the country – and beyond – to vote for their favourite RHS Partner Garden for 2024 .
Now in its fourth year , the contest continues with the “ Feel Good ” theme and all voters in the popular RHS Partner Garden of the Year competition will be entered into a prize draw to win a pair of tickets to the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival in 2025 with a luxury two-night stay close to the showground as a thank you for their show of support .
Last year , with thousands of votes cast , Hidden Valley Gardens , an intimate three-acre cottage style garden in Treesmill , Cornwall , won the overall competition , with a further five gardens winning regional categories .
Previous winners have described how the award has confirmed the appreciation of their hard work shown by visitors . Ian Mabberly , who runs Nant y Bedd Garden in the Brecon Beacons which was crowned RHS Partner Garden of the Year in 2022 , said : “ We ’ re pretty sure that the increase in visitor numbers in
2023 must have been associated with the win .
“ We know that what we are doing here is greatly appreciated by our visitors from what they write in our Visitors ’ Book , and the award confirms that .”
There are 220 gardens in the RHS Partner Garden scheme in the UK and abroad . The scheme gives free access to the garden to the charity ’ s 600,000 members at selected times of the year . Voting for the Partner Garden competition is open to anyone , however , not just members .
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