2015 Garden Competition
The Hills District Garden Competition is open to all residents of Arana Hills, Everton Hills, Ferny Hills and Bunya.
New and recycled committee members are always welcome - please email us at gardencomp@fhpa.org.au if you are able to assist in any way.
Launch - Saturday, 27th June - Arana Hills Library. Our guest speaker was Kathryn Beikoff, who lectures in landscape design at Grovely TAFE and also runs Kathryn Beikoff Landscape Design. She is a passionate gardener, horticulturalist and landscape designer, and a member of the Australian Institute of Landscape Designers and Managers.
Entries Closed - Wednesday, 23rd September
Judging - Sunday, 27th September
Presentations - Sunday, 18th October - Arana Hills Library - click here for photos
Please note that, by entering, you give permission for us to publish photos of your garden and limited personal information. Only your surname and suburb are published on this website with photos of your garden. Prize winners have their full name and address published at the Arana Hills Library and in The Hills Echo, but this is only distributed locally. Phone numbers and email addresses provided by you are only made available to Committee members.
The categories for this year's competition (TBC) are:
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Grand Champion
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President's Trophy
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Residential Garden (both front and back gardens)
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Front Garden
- Back Garden
- Edible Garden
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Acreage
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New Entry
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Native
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Waterwise
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Meritorious
The Edible Garden category includes vegetable gardens, herb gardens and fruit trees.
Residents can only enter their front garden OR their back garden OR both, as they are each in a different prize category. You must enter both your front and back garden to be eligible for the Residential prize category.
Details of the judging criteria for each category will be published soon.
Links to selected gardening websites:
http://www.abc.net.au/gardening Gardening Australia
http://www.calyx.com.au Qld Garden Competitions
http://www.annettemcfarlane.com Annette McFarlane, Grovely TAFE
http://rhsv.org.au Royal Horticultural Society of Victoria
http://www.opengarden.org.au Open Garden Scheme (now concluded)
Click on the links below to the photos for your suburb of choice:
Stapleton Garden - Third, Edible Gardens
Langdon Garden - Meritorious
Bullimore Garden - Grand Champion; First, Backyard Gardens
Gibson Garden - First, Edible Gardens
(Name withheld by request) - Meritorious
Nielson Garden - Third, Permananent Gardens
Guy Garden - Meritorious
Steer Garden - First, Waterwise Gardens; Second, Permanent Gardens
Horton Garden - Third, Waterwise
Hudson Garden - Third, Front Yard Gardens
Ross Garden - First, Front Yard Gardens; Second, New Entry Gardens
McAuliffe Garden - First, New Entry Gardens; Second, Backyard Gardens
Hildebrand Garden - Meritorious
Searle Garden - Third, New Entry Gardens; Third, Backyard Gardens
Creagh Garden - Second, Waterwise Gardens
Ellis Garden - First, Permanent Gardens
Ellerman Garden - Second, Front Yard Gardens
Cassidy Garden - Meritorious
Dallinger Garden - Meritorious
Scanlon Garden - Third, Acreage Gardens
Pain Garden - Second, Acreage Gardens; Second, Edible Gardens
Harvey Garden - President's Trophy; First, Acreage Gardens
