RHS Tatton Park Flower Show returns with exciting new competition: chance to transform your ginnel and win £1,000!

The RHS Tatton Park Flower Show is back with a competition for 2023, and we’ve got a fantastic competition to celebrate.

This year the Manchester Evening News has teamed up with RHS to launch a new competition, offering the chance for you to win invitations to the show opening, help transform your ginnel into a vibrant space, and win £1,000.

Individuals and local community groups across the North West have been transforming ginnels from unwelcome, grey spaces into green pockets full of plants, creating stunning spaces which bring communities together, and with considerable success.

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At this year’s RHS Flower Show the RHS and the MEN are presenting a Ginnel Garden designed by Manchester’s Cloud gardener and small space gardening expert Jason Williams. We know there are others that would like to do the same, but for various reasons, may struggle.

So today, we are launching a competition to help residents who have a vision of how to transform their shared ginnel into a blooming community hub.

We are inviting residents, whether individuals, a few households together or community groups, to submit a photo or photographs of the space they want to transform, with up to 500 words and/or a two-minute film on what their plans are for their ginnel, why they believe they should win, and how they plan to maintain it.

Jason Williams, 36, said: “For me, I’m a champion for the community growing RHS campaign - the Big Seed Sow, which is about bringing communities together.

"The ginnel garden is an extension of that, and it’s about bringing people together. There are completely different stories behind people’s gardening, which brings that sense of