I've just got back from judging this year's Devon Wildlife Trust's salvage garden competition (well done Paul Martin for organising it). Seven primary schools took part this year, which is fantastic but meant that judging was more difficult. Indeed it was so close I decided to add an extra prize and award a second/runner up!
There were some fantastic ideas and indeed if you mixed elements from each garden I think you'd have the pefect one - the plants from Clyst Heath, the creativity and design from Pinhoe, the colour and signage from Whipton Barton, the inventiveness of Stoke Hill with the frying pan bird bath, the recycled bath and beatiful verbenas from St Michael's, the water feature of Countess Wear (a sunken sink) and Topsham's colourful recycled jubilee paper cups. All stunning.
