Hot tubs, floral bus stops, edible tunnels and heritage vegetables on show at Dig the City.
Successful show gardens have been announced for this year’s festival, which takes over the city centre streets from 2 – 10 August.
Judged by gardener Rachel de Thame and the National Trust’s city gardener, Sean Harkin, sixteen gardens will be on show.
Specially designed and created for Dig the City, the gardens have had to embrace and solve the challenges of gardening in a small urban space, and all will be vying for a prestigious Dig the City medal.
Successful entries have come from designers both professional and novice, community groups and businesses.
Rachel de Thame said: "We’ve been overwhelmed by the calibre and creativity of the show gardens. It will be awesome to see them all on the city centre streets from 2 August."
Ranging from a one-off floral display in St. Ann’s Square (inspired by Manchester’s cotton-trading past) to bee-friendly planting, Tatton Park’s Japanese meditative garden, a sound garden and plenty of plots devoted to growing your own, all designs had to fit into one of three categories: city gardens, eat or grow anywhere.
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