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UK: Wildlife garden on rented allotment site wins Garden of the Year award

Three million new gardeners discovering their green fingers over the past 18 months, according to the Horticultural Trades Association.

By Olivia Heath
House Beautiful
Oct 27, 2021

Excerpts:

Nadine Mitschunas’ beautiful wildlife garden – a rented sunny allotment site in Oxfordshire – is a sight to behold. Nadine, who works as pollinator ecologist, started to cultivate the overgrown and unloved plot in 2010, and now bursting with blooms, it’s been praised by the judges for being a ‘stunning naturalistic’ garden that is ‘wonderful for wildlife’.

BBC Gardeners’ World magazine’s Editor, Lucy Hall, says of Nadine’s winning garden: ‘This really is a garden for our times, reflecting the care that so many gardeners have poured into creating spaces for wildlife to thrive. Our winner has achieved this to a high level of perfection but not forgotten the need to make an atmospheric space to simply live in and enjoy. With mostly plants rather than hard landscaping used to create the space, it’s a thrifty and achievable blueprint for many others to follow.’

Read the complete article here.