Mega gallery: Faces and gardens behind The Chronicle garden comp

Still sitting on the fence about entering this year’s Chronicle Garden Competition? Here are 50 plus photos to get you in the mood to plant, weed and prune.

GREEN THUMBS: TAFE Queensland South West Toowoomba campus horticulture students (from left) Thomas Haynes, Dylan Charles, Luke Towns, Dean Linke with teacher and this year’s entrant liaison Mike Wells photographed during the 2019 Chronicle Garden Competition.

With over 70 years of gardening glory behind it, entries to the 2021 The Chronicle Garden Competition are open until Friday, August 13.

To start getting everyone into the garden spirit, we’ve dug through the Chronicle picture archives to find some of the most beautiful gardens and friendliest faces from the last few decades of the competition.

The faces and gardens behind The Chronicle Garden Competition

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This year’s competition marks an exciting return to the garden competition, which was forced to go online in 2020 due to the pandemic, creating the very first Garden for Good Campaign.
If you’re searching for a little more garden inspiration to get you going this year, here is the winning garden from the last official garden competition held in 2019.

The Chronicle Garden Competition winner welcomes visitors

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This year’s competition is sure to offer something for every shape and type of garden and every gardener.

Whether you’ve been tenting to your blooms for a few months or a few decades – there is a ategory and section for you.
Here’s everything you need to know about this year’s competition, including how to enter and how to apply for your extending watering restrictions.