Pocket Garden
Welcome to the home of the Pocket Garden design competition
The 2022 competition has now finished.
Visit the 2022 Pocket Garden online showcase to see this year's winners
The competition will return in 2023. In the meantime, you can create your own Pocket Garden at home, or learn more about our other amazing Food and the Environment programmes, including One Planet Picnic.
What is a Pocket Garden?
A Pocket Garden is a miniature garden that uses edible plants, plants that attract wildlife, and that reuses something which would otherwise have been thrown away.
Each year, we invite young people from schools across Scotland to send in their designs for a colourful and exciting environmentally friendly, pocket-sized garden. Pupils who send in the winning designs are then invited to build and grow their gardens to display.
Many of us have recently discovered joyful and practical learning through growing plants and connecting with our communities. The 2022 One Planet Picnic Pocket Garden Design Competition builds on this, linking garden design, sustainability and the 2022 Year of Stories. You can find out more about this years' competition by downloading the Pocket Garden 2022 brochure.
Previously, Pocket Gardens have been displayed at Gardening Scotland in Edinburgh, where they have been visited by the BBC Beechgrove Garden team, the Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform and the Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
Pocket Garden Stories
Have a look at the Pocket Garden Stories from previous years for ideas and inspiration. The children’s designs are often playful, informal, celebratory and full of clever surprises and innovative ideas.
Build Your Own Pocket Garden at Home
Have a look at the design brochure for instructions on how to build your own Pocket Garden at home.
Pocket Garden Activities for Home or School
Activities at Home sheet has lots of activities around the competition themes for children to try at home. You can use it to inspire ideas for a pocket garden design for the competition next year.
