Gardens of the Year Competition 2025 – People’s Choice Vote

Ready to have your say in the Gardens of the Year 2025 People’s Choice award? Choose from six fabulous finalists showcasing a range of gardens from small urban plots to larger rural retreats – you have until 18 December 2025 to cast your vote!

This year’s Gardens of the Year competition inspired hundreds of you to enter your gardens, from which we chose six exciting finalists. Our Judges’ Award was decided on 11 September and now it’s time to be part of deciding who will win our People’s Choice Award. Read on for more details of how to vote and to see a garden tour of each chosen entry to help you decide. Last votes at midday on 18 December 2025 so place your bid now.

Discover the winners

The winner of the Judge’s Choice was revealed in the December issue of BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine.

The People’s Choice winner will be announced in the March issue of the magazine, which goes on sale on 5 February – subscribe today to get a copy in the post.

The prizes

Judges' Choice

Hotel Palazzo Belmonte on the Cilento coast, Italy Long Travel

The winner of the Judges’ Choice award wins a seven-night Italian holiday for two worth £7,000, staying at Hotel Palazzo Belmonte on the Cilento coast, south of Naples. They will enjoy a ground-floor room with private terrace and sea view, with flights, car hire and breakfasts included. The hotel is set in lush gardens with an outdoor poor and pristine sandy beach. They can also explore the nearby town of Santa Maria di Castellabate and the natural beauty of the Cilento National Park.

People's Choice

the award-winning Riverside Cabins, set in peaceful rural Shropshire — The award-winning Riverside Cabins, set in peaceful rural Shropshire

The People’s Choice winner will win a seven-night holiday for up to six people (travel not included), worth £3,000, in the award-winning Riverside Cabins, set in peaceful rural Shropshire. You’ll stay in a boutique self-catering lodge on the banks of the River Perry, with three bedrooms, a private outdoor space and hot tub. The welcome hamper includes breakfast and a BBQ box of local ingredients. During your stay, you can visit nearby Shrewsbury, explore local walking trails, spot the plentiful wildlife and even try fishing, or simply kick back, enjoy the peace and watch the stars.

All six finalists have been awarded a professional photoshoot of their garden and will be featured in BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine in 2025-6.

Vote for your favourite garden

Take a look at the videos of our six finalists’ gardens below and vote for your favourite garden.

Francis O'Kane and Barry Hopkins, Stockwell, London

This small, urban garden in South London has been transformed into a tropical-inspired space for relaxing and entertaining from morning to night. Having created a lush landscape of exotic plants, ferns, carpet plants and pollinator-friendly flowers, the garden is also a sanctuary for wildlife.

Francis O'Kane and Barry Hopkins, London

Kamal Hussain, Saltaire, Yorkshire

Creating a colourful, flower-filled garden that brings joy to passersby as well as providing for pollinators and other beneficial wildlife is an ongoing theme of this tiny canal-side space. A bijou seating area surrounded by containerised plants and flowers and climbers provides a place to read, relax, and watch the world go by.

Kate Marshall-Evans, Avonwick, Devon

What was previously overgrown railway land is now a nature-led family garden that marries swathes of perennial and herb-filled borders with wilder areas of woodland and meadow. Cobbled paths laid with found stones echo small drystone walls and benches around a sandpit, and a pond is just one sanctuary for wildlife.

Paul and Sian Everden, North Walsham, Norfolk

This large rural family garden has been assembled as a series of interjoining ‘rooms’ over the course of 35 years and including a courtyarded topiary Knot Garden, Folly Garden, a Clematis Walk, Potager Garden, camping area and the addition of a 100-metre Spiral Meadow designed to encourage ever more biodiversity and wildlife.

Sheila Averbuch, Wallyford, Edinburgh

The U-shaped garden of this 17th-century cottage has multiple vertical surfaces inspiring the creation of this productive and ornamental garden combining seasonal climbers, several varieties of espaliered fruit, a rose arch, and raised beds of edibles and herbs. A New England corner is a relaxing area in which to write.

Simon Richards, Folkestone, Kent

This gravel garden was partly inspired by attempts to upkeep a traditional lawn over recent hot summers. Having recycled turf and soil, and added structure with two interlinked, wildlife-friendly ponds a drought-tolerant prairie-style planting palette was introduced. Places to sit and take shade complete the picture.

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