Pocket Garden
What is a Pocket Garden?
A Pocket Garden is a miniature garden that includes plants that people can eat, plants and features that attract wildlife, and that reuses something which would otherwise have been thrown away.
The Pocket Garden Design Competition
Each year, we invite young people from nursery, primary and secondary schools across Scotland to send in their designs for a colourful and exciting, environmentally friendly Pocket Garden. Schools who send in the winning designs are then invited to build, grow and photograph their gardens to display in an online showcase. See full competition details in the How to Enter page.
The showcase is where the public can vote for their favourite Pocket Garden and there are discretionary judges’ awards for the transformation from design to real garden. You can see winning designs from 2026 transformed into fabulous gardens in our online Pocket Garden Showcase.
Introduction Video
An overview of the Pocket Garden Design Competition with examples of different ways schools have designed their gardens.
Helpful Links
Full competition information is on the How to Enter page
Judges share their top tips for your Pocket Garden to look its best in early June
The Inspiration and Showcase pages show Pocket Gardens from previous years
Pocket Garden at Home is a project for you to have fun with at home over the summer holidays perhaps.
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