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. Neighbours, friends and relatives can nominate front gardens for recognition. You can even nominate your own garden!

2021 Nominations are Closed

Thanks to everyone who nominated a front garden for recognition. See below for sign drop-off, shortlisting and judging dates.

To ensure fairness and provide equal opportunity for all residents, first place winners in each ward will be ineligible from winning first, second or third place for a period of one year. This means that the 2020 first place winners can still be nominated, however, they will not be considered for the Top Three Gardens in their ward in 2021.

Important 2021 Dates:

Nomination period: Friday, May 28 – Friday, July 2, 2021
Nomination sign drop-off period: Beginning the week of July 19, 2021
Shortlisted sticker drop-off period: Week of July 19 to August 3, 2021
Judging period: Tuesday, August 3 – Friday, August 20, 2021

*Dates subject to change.

Richmond Hill Blooms 2018

Judging - Tuesday, August 3 - Friday, August 20

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 top three front gardens in each ward will receive a plaque and recognition on the City’s website. Winners will be announced this fall.