A Pocket Garden is a miniature garden that uses edible plants, plants that attract wildlife, and that reuses something which would otherwise have been thrown away.

Each year, we invite young people from schools across Scotland to send in their designs for a colourful and exciting environmentally friendly, pocket-sized garden. Pupils who send in the winning designs are then invited to build and grow their gardens to display.  You can find out more about this years’ competition by downloading the Pocket Garden 2025 Brochure.

Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer recognised the health benefits of taking part in Pocket Garden in his Annual Report 2023 -2024. He said it, “connects children with their food and with nature.”

Previously, Pocket Gardens have been displayed at Gardening Scotland in Edinburgh, where they have been visited by the BBC Beechgrove Garden team, the Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform and the Lord Provost of Edinburgh. You can see this years’ winning designs transformed into fabulous gardens in our online Pocket Garden 2024 showcase.