The autumn container contest is now closed, and I’ve picked the winners! Remember, there was a top prize of £500 worth of gardening goodies, including treats such as an RHS membership and a beautiful moss wall art.
The standard of entries was really outstanding, and I really appreciate you sending them all in. It wasn’t easy to pick a winner. I’ve actually picked a winner, three runners up (who each get £100 of gardening goodies), and then I have a few highly commended entrants, who each get a plant geek badge!
So…
Overall winner

Christina Carpenter
Runners up

Steve Mold

Samantha Carroll

Leigh Manning
Highly commended

Will Murray

Ryan Newcastle-Wattis

Lottie Sullivan

Diana Eastwood

Michael has been involved with gardening and plants since he was just five years old. He is a self-professed Plant Geek, and was listed in the Sunday Times top 20 most influential people in the gardening world, thanks to his plant hunter role at Thompson & Morgan.
Michael was responsible for new plant introductions such as the Egg and Chips plant and the FuchsiaBerry and keeps busy travelling the world in search of new plants as well as lecturing worldwide, including stints in Japan. He is very active on social media – so why not give him a follow at @mr_plantgeek or Facebook – and writes a plant-focused Substack called Grow This, Not That.