2023 Arid Zone Garden Competition
What better way to leave your winter blues behind by getting ready for spring!
For all gardens big and small, those with green fingers or thumbs, we have a competition for you.
For all gardens big and small, those with green fingers or thumbs, we have a competition for you.
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Click here for the competition flyer
Click here for the entry form Please familiarise yourself with the rules of entry using this form |
We hope to build on previous years competition and make this an even bigger event!
Check out last years news article for the campaign! LINK
Check out last years news article for the campaign! LINK
Our Landcare Arid Zone Garden Competition is new and innovative for Broken Hill, celebrating the opportunity to embrace the wonders of Arid Zone flora, attractive yet hardened to our climate. Landcare, wishing to pay respect to the former Silver City Garden Club that ran a garden competition, has a bigger and better garden competition for out second year.
This year Landcare Broken Hill are once again proud to host the competition and has put together a volunteer committee to bring the community together to showcase their skills and innovative gardening techniques for an area that has limited rainfall. We believe that the competition is important in the development of community structure.
Whether you've got a strip, patch, plot, or pot, it's time to pick up those garden gloves, gardening tools, and get involved.
Categories for this years competition include:
1. Best Arid Zone Garden Planted predominately with Western NSW plants
2. Best Garden
3. Best Streetside Verge - Nature Strip
4. Best Children’s Garden
5. Best Fruit and/or Vegetable Plot
6. Silver City Garden Club Commemorative Rose Competition (Open to all Rose Gardens).
IMPORTANT DATES:
Event Opens:
1st September 2023
Event Closes:
After the Long Weekend October 2023
Judging:
Mid October
Winners Notified &
Presentation @ 7.30pm Thursday 26th October 2023 Centre for Community Hall
The Public will be advised via Barrier Truth Saturday 29th October 2023.
Don't miss out, become a member and keep up to date with Landcare Broken Hill news including ways to enter for next year's competition by reaching getting in touch via out Contact Us form found at the bottom of this page.
This year Landcare Broken Hill are once again proud to host the competition and has put together a volunteer committee to bring the community together to showcase their skills and innovative gardening techniques for an area that has limited rainfall. We believe that the competition is important in the development of community structure.
Whether you've got a strip, patch, plot, or pot, it's time to pick up those garden gloves, gardening tools, and get involved.
Categories for this years competition include:
1. Best Arid Zone Garden Planted predominately with Western NSW plants
2. Best Garden
3. Best Streetside Verge - Nature Strip
4. Best Children’s Garden
5. Best Fruit and/or Vegetable Plot
6. Silver City Garden Club Commemorative Rose Competition (Open to all Rose Gardens).
IMPORTANT DATES:
Event Opens:
1st September 2023
Event Closes:
After the Long Weekend October 2023
Judging:
Mid October
Winners Notified &
Presentation @ 7.30pm Thursday 26th October 2023 Centre for Community Hall
The Public will be advised via Barrier Truth Saturday 29th October 2023.
Don't miss out, become a member and keep up to date with Landcare Broken Hill news including ways to enter for next year's competition by reaching getting in touch via out Contact Us form found at the bottom of this page.