Vote for your favourite Olympic Park garden designVote for your favourite Olympic Park garden design
01 Oct 2009
Twelve budding gardeners from across the UK have been shortlisted for the public vote for the Olympic Park Great British Garden competition.
An artist's impressions of an area of Olympic Park parkland after the Games
You can now vote on your favourite designs from both age ranges – 16 and under and over-17. Entrants had to design a 1,000sq m garden in the London 2012 Olympic Park incorporating the unique qualities of a British domestic garden.
Voting is open for the next month and can be done via the
Royal Horticultural Society’s website.The winners from each category will then work with the world-class team creating the London 2012 parklands to design a Great British Garden that will be in bloom during the Games and remain long after 2012.
Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell said: ‘It was exciting to see so many good entries for what is a unique chance for the general public to shape part of the Olympic Park. The winners will help design a Great British Garden on the Olympic Park, but it’s the public who pick the winners. The final shortlist reflects the traditions and quirks of British gardens, from Tudor roses to garden gnomes, but they are all very different designs. I can’t wait to see what the British public decide.’
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Read a blog on the competition by John, ODA Parklands and Public Realm Project SponsorRead the full media release on the Department for Culture, Media and Sport website 
