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Entries are now open for this October’s Virtual Village Fete! All you need to do is upload your entries using the form below – please don’t email us as that won’t count. 

There are seven categories to choose from. Enter as many as you like! It’s free and you might even win a prize (that’s why we’re asking for your email address. We won’t add you to any other mailing lists unless you opt in with the tick boxes.) 

The main categories will be accepting entries from 1st October until 26th October and each category has a prize, which includes signed copies of Jack Wallington's book A Greener Life, and other goodies: 

  • Best container garden 
  • Best shot of an insect on a plant 
  • General produce category - a selection of food you've grown this year, arranged in the most artful way 

But that's not all! We're also running some Just-For-Fun categories: 

  • Most flamboyant insect 
  • Vegetable that looks most like a celebrity 
  • Food fails - wonky cakes, lumpy curries, jam that glows in the dark... 
  • Ugliest veg 

Our celebrity judge is horticulturalist, landscape designer and writer Jack Wallington. Scroll down to find out more about about him and his work.

Happy snapping and good luck! 

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(c) Jack Wallington

Hi from Jack! He says:

After twenty years working in the creative industries, I retrained between 2015 – 2017 at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to become a horticulturist and landscape designer, opening my studio full time in January 2018. Writing, art and nature have always come naturally to me – my first loves – and they all pointed to this new career after a key turning point in my life.

I have designed over 70 gardens across the UK and written columns and features for Gardeners’ World, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Gardens Illustrated, RHS The Garden and The English Garden. I released my first book, Wild about Weeds, in 2019 and A Greener Life in 2022, and was lucky that both were named The Times Gardening Book of the Year.

The combination of growing, showing and explaining what I do to help others has allowed me to communicate a new approach to gardens I create in my designs. This new wild way connects people to nature deeply and more meaningfully than other gardens can. It is explored in my weekly Wild Way newsletter in which I also share the study of wildlife and wildflowers from our remote farm in the Pennines.