Richmond Hill Blooms

Richmond Hill Blooms is a program designed to encourage residents to play a role in making Richmond Hill a more beautiful place to live, work and play by creating attractive, colourful and well-maintained front gardens and recognizing them. Front gardens can be nominated for recognition by neighbours, friends and relatives. You can even nominate your own garden! There are a number of ways to do so. 

The 2018 Nomination Period is Friday, June 1 to Friday, July 6.

Other Important Dates

Shortlisted Judging: July 9 - July 27 ◊ Top Three Judging: July 30 - August 17 ◊ Richmond Hill Blooms Gala: September 13

How to Nominate a Garden

Once the nomination period is open (Friday, June 1), you can nominate a garden by:

1) Calling the Richmond Hill Blooms Hotline - 905-780-2977 - and leaving a voicemail with the address of the garden(s) you're nominating and your name, telephone number and email address.

2) Completing and submitting the online nomination form (will be available June 1, 2018).

Note: Walk-in and email nominations will not be accepted.

Judging

Every nominated residential front garden will be acknowledged with a recognition sign for their garden as part of the Richmond Hill Blooms program two-step nomination. Following this recognition, a short list of best gardens will be identified by Richmond Hill staff horticulturalists. The Richmond Hill Garden and Horticultural Society will then select the top three gardens per ward based on the Ontario Horticultural Association's Garden and Special Planting Criteria. 

Program Changes

To ensure fairness and provide equal opportunity to all residents, first place winners in each ward will be ineligible from winning first, second or third place for a period of one year beginning with the 2019 program. This means that the 2018 first place winners can still be nominated, however, they will not be considered for the Top Three Gardens in their ward next year.   

About Richmond Hill Blooms

Richmond Hill Blooms is a program that encourages residents to play a role in making Richmond Hill a more beautiful place to live, work and play by creating attractive, colourful and well-maintained front gardens and recognizing them.

Residential front gardens can be nominated for recognition by your neighbours, friends and relatives. You can even nominate your own garden! There are a variety of ways to do so, in addition to a number of criteria that will be considered for recognition. 

Every nominated residential front garden will be acknowledged with a recognition sign for their garden as part of the Richmond Hill Blooms program two-step judging process. Following this recognition, a short list of best gardens will be identified by Richmond Hill staff horticulturalists. The Richmond Hill Garden and Horticultural Society will then select the top three gardens per ward based on the Ontario Horticultural Association's Garden and Special Planting Criteria.

The 2018 Richmond Hill Blooms Program is sponsored by Miller Compost.