Woollahra Garden Awards
The Woollahra Garden Awards have returned for 2022!
Woollahra Council is encouraging all residents, local businesses, school groups and community organisations to showcase their gardens – big or small by entering this year’s Woollahra Garden Awards. We want you to share your creativity, hard work and sustainable gardening practices with us.
Don’t miss your chance to win some great prizes. The overall winner will receive a $500 garden voucher. The winner of each category will receive a $100 garden voucher.
Entries closed 14 October 2022.
Award Categories
The judging of the awards is undertaken by reviewing the photographs and descriptions of the gardens submitted along with the application form. The judging criteria is based on garden design and landscaping, originality, plant selection, maintenance, habitat creation and overall sustainability including recycling, reduced water use etc. Please consider which category best reflects your garden as entries can only be nominated for one category.
Best Small Garden - including balconies, courtyards and townhouses - Demonstrate how you have created an amazing and abundant green environment in a small space, garden, terrace, balcony or an apartment. Demonstrate how you designed and/or maintain the garden sustainably, for example, by reducing water and/or chemical use, careful plant selection or using recycled materials.
Best Large Garden - Demonstrate how you have created a beautiful large garden and describe your creative influences. Demonstrate how you designed and/or maintain the garden sustainably, for example, by reducing water and/or chemical use, careful plant selection or using recycled materials.
Best Sustainable Home or Verge Garden - Demonstrate how your home garden contributes to sustainability initiatives such as habitat creation or production of organic produce. Or demonstrate how you have created a verge garden that contributes to the improvement of community space and streetscapes. Demonstrate how you designed and/or maintain the garden sustainably, for example, by reducing water and/or chemical use, careful plant selection or using recycled materials.
Best Sustainable School or Community Garden - Demonstrate how your school or community garden contributes to sustainability initiatives such as habitat creation or production of organic produce. And/or demonstrate how your garden is contributing to the health of the local environment, improves the quality of our local parks, and brings the community together.
Best Overall winner - This award is selected by the judges from applications in all categories.
Prizes
The overall winner will receive a $500 garden voucher. Category winners will receive a $100 garden voucher, and highly commended gardens will receive a $50 voucher.
Judges
This year we are pleased to announce Lorraine Emerson, President of Garden Clubs of Australia, will return to our judging panel, together with Councillor Peter Cavanagh.
Winners
- Best Overall Garden
Winner – Jeannette Lloyd Jones, Edgecliff Road, Woollahra
- Best Sustainable Home or Verge Garden
Winner - Jeannette Lloyd Jones, Edgecliff Road, Woollahra
Highly Commended – Anastasia Coroneo, Jeremy Ballach and Isis Bellach, Old
South Head Road, Vaucluse
- Best Small Garden (including balconies, courtyards and townhouses)
Winner – Diana Fisher, Holdsworth Street, Woollahra
Highly Commended – Bill James, Paddington Street, Paddington
- Best Large Garden
Winner – Timothy Allerton, Hopetoun Avenue, Vaucluse
Highly Commended – Maggie Crichton, Parsley Road, Vaucluse
- Best Sustainable Community Garden
Winner – Uniting Retirement Living Lough Neagh Woollahra
More information
Contact sustainability@woollahra.nsw.gov.au.