Chillies are a delicious addition to many meals. Learn to grow your own this year. Chillies are used in a huge range of recipes and are easy plants to grow. They do best in pots both outdoors and on the windowsill. Different varieties can be mild and sweet, or fiery [...]

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Updated 09/04/25 Fill your winter garden with scent, colour and silhouette! Don’t let the garden go bare and dormant over the cold months. With these winter-flowering plants you will be sure to brighten up your pots and flower borders in no time. Heather Winter-flowering heather adds long-lasting colour and texture. It looks [...]

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Today, I have the pleasure of revealing more of our incredible Cultivation Street 2020 winners. With a record number of entries in this year’s competition, boy was judging tough! After launching a brand-new category last year – Gardens for Better Health – to reward community gardens that have a positive impact on the mental [...]

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Having given away more than £120,000 in prizes over the past eight years, Cultivation Street is the largest community gardening campaign in the country. Year on year, the stories behind the community efforts never fail to inspire. Our schools’ category has seen some incredible entries over the years. We are [...]

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Cultivation Street is the biggest national community garden campaign and as we enter its the eighth year, let’s look at the top plots who’ve won over the years and enhanced people’s lives through gardening. Community gardening has the power to bring people together, teach new skills and instil [...]

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We had barrowloads of entries for our fab Cultivation Street contest and really dig what you have done! Now let’s hear it for our overall winner... HANDS aloft, they have every reason to celebrate after building a fantastic community garden through years of aspiration, inspiration and no small amount of perspiration. These fine volunteers [...]

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We are unveiling even more brilliant Cultivation Street winners this week. This time around, we are honouring the brilliant schools that have made their mark in one of our most hotly contested categories. Each year, hundreds of schools take part, showing judges their brilliant work and the important role gardening plays in education. We’re [...]

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We are unveiling more brilliant Cultivation Street 2019 winners – this week highlighting the plots that make you feel better and people who inspire you to do better. Our community gardening campaign has been blossoming since 2013, handing out prizes totalling £100,000. We’ve celebrated hundreds of community projects making a difference to lives. And [...]

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It has been an incredible year for Cultivation Street! Our 2019 campaign has attracted record entries from across the UK since its launch in February. Picking the winners has been harder than ever. Today we’re revealing the first batch, who share nearly £20,000 worth of prizes, plus each finalist gets 100 stunning Calliope® [...]

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Gardening is good for our mental health. Even something as simple as having a plant on your desk can reduce stress and make you feel more energized and able to think more clearly, and many that suffer from anxiety or depression have found gardening and caring for plants to be incredibly beneficial. But [...]

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This Mother’s Day, dig into some splendid survival suggestions to make your beautiful blooms last. It’s time to think outside the gift-box when it comes to making flower arrangements count, so here are some nifty ideas to preserve your proudly displayed posies. Cut flowers With cut flowers, the trick is to [...]

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Grow potatoes on your plot and this staple crop will bolster any homemade meal. They’re great for beginner gardeners and practised vegetable growers alike so get some in the ground this year to start enjoying your very own homegrown spuds! Where to grow Potatoes are grown from special seed tubers instead [...]

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Group gardening is fun, sociable, good for your health and rapidly growing in popularity. And with this years’ Cultivation Street competition, sponsored by Calliope,® launching today it can also give you an unexpected windfall! The competition, which is now in its seventh year, has given away over £120,000 and thousands of free Calliope® geraniums [...]

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Parsnips are a great crop for the veg garden. Easy to grow, with a gorgeous sweet taste when cooked properly. They are also one of the few crops that can stay in the soil over winter. Long-rooted parsnips need good, deeply cultivated, stone-free soils. There are also short varieties that will grow in any [...]

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Garlic is a popular vegetable for a kitchen garden because it’s so easy to grow! Just plant it in autumn or winter and leave it to its own devices until harvesting next summer. With it's many uses in the kitchen, there’s no excuse not to plant it now. Growing best in a sunny site [...]

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The judges have cast their votes and it’s time to reveal some of the lucky winners of my Cultivation Street competition 2018, who will be receiving their share of the whopping £21,000 in cash prizes and 1600 Calliope® geraniums that I have to give away. With a record number of entries this year, our [...]

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Educating and inspiring the next generation of gardeners is one of the missions we hold most dear at Cultivation Street, and this week you can see some of the incredible school gardens that are a part of our campaign. The three winners of this year’s competition each have a different focus and bring [...]

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Cultivation Street is a national gardening campaign that celebrates and supports both community and school gardening projects across the UK. Now in its fifth year, it culminates each summer with a massive competition where the lucky winners will win a share of £20,000 in National Garden Gift Vouchers! Gardening together changes lives, [...]

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Cultivation Street is a national gardening campaign that celebrates and supports both community and school gardening projects across the UK. Now in its fifth year, it culminates each summer with a massive competition where the lucky winners will win a share of £20,000 in National Garden Gift Vouchers! Gardening together changes lives, [...]

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Wouldn't it be simply wonderful to pick beautiful bouquets from your own community garden? In light, sunny areas of the garden, why not create your very own cutting garden full of your favourite perennial flowers, grasses or herbs. Perfect for giving as gifts, centre pieces for any occasions and for adding stunning colours, [...]

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