Celebrating our Camden in Bloom 2026 winners
Camden recently celebrated the green fingered success of this year's Camden in Bloom competition, with the Mayor of Camden inviting the winners to the Town Hall to celebrate their inventive and successful gardening efforts.
Entrants had competed in the categories Best Front Garden, Best Community Food Growing, Best Community Nature Garden, Best Community Rain Garden, Treemendous Trees Award and Camden Young Gardeners, with the prizes kindly provided by the Camden Garden Centre, and Veolia.
I would like to congratulate our talented winners and everyone who took their time and effort to enter our fantastic community competition, helping Camden bloom this year.
This is an amazing celebration of what can be achieved in in Camden in even the smallest area.
Our annual Camden in Bloom competition continues to be a much-loved perennial, which brings together residents, businesses and communities to celebrate our outdoor spaces.
The competition aims to recognise some of the best gardens in the borough and encourage residents and community groups to create an even greener and more sustainable place to live, grow food and support habitats for nature to thrive.
Again, this year’s entrants showed amazing creativity and skill highlighting the possibilities open to gardeners of all ages and abilities, even in a busy London borough.
The top three entries from each category received a winner’s certificate, and vouchers from the competition sponsors Camden Garden Centre and Veolia.
This year’s winners
Best Front Garden was won by Louise Balcombe for her beautiful mix of herbs, ferns and flowers in her front garden.
Best Communal Food Growing category was won by Mill Lane Garden Centre for their community allotment in Hampstead which is tended by a team of disabled adults, children from a nearby SEN school, and local volunteers.
Best Communal Nature Garden category was won by Co-operation Town Community Garden – a species-rich space that many different moths, butterflies, and bees call home.
Jacek Turniak won the award for Best Community Rain Garden, for his adopted bed at the junction of Savernake Road and Constantine Road which he has been managing for two years.
The Treemendous Trees award was a new addition to Camden in Bloom aiming to encourage residents to help keep young street trees alive during the summer months. Alison Wood won first prize for her dedication to watering the tree outside her home throughout the drought,
Camden Young Gardener Alex Goodall-Murphy, aged 7 years old, was rewarded for his work growing soft fruits and wildflowers in his back garden. He was joined by he was joined by David and Daniel Beydoun, aged 8 years old, who also picked up prizes for helping to care for their front garden during the hot spring and summer months.