This year's Garden Media Guild Awards shortlist have been announced.
The annual awards are held in recognition of the talent in the gardening media industry, with the winners announced in a ceremony on Thursday 26 November. This year's ceremony will be conducted remotely.
The awards are open to everyone who generates or publishes gardening content, with categories covering all areas of the garden media trade including social media, garden books, features photographer and garden publication of the year.
This year, Jane Perrone is shortlisted as columnist of the year for her Gardens Illustrated column The Great Indoors, while Gardens Illustrated photographers Jason Ingram, Richard Bloom and Marianne Majerus have all been nominated for photographer of the year.
Gardens Illustrated's website has been nominated in the website of the year category, alongside sites including The English Garden website, the RHS's Virtual Chelsea and Gardeners' World.
Other nominees include Monty Don, Carol Drake, James Alexander Sinclair and Val Bourne for Journalist of the year.
The full list of Garden Media Guild Awards are below.
SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCER OF THE YEAR AWARD – sponsored by STIHL
Michael Perry, Mr Plant Geek
Jane Perrone
Charles Dowding
Lee Burkhill, the ‘Garden Ninja’
Ann-Marie Powell
BLOG OF VLOG OF THE YEAR – sponsored by Mr Fothergill’s
Life on Pig Row – Andrew Oldham
Katy in the Garden – Katy Watson
Pots and Trowels – Martin Fish
No Dig Home – Stephanie Hafferty
Pumpkin Beth – Beth Otway
WEBSITE OF THE YEAR AWARD – sponsored by Honda
theenglishgarden.co.uk
Virtual Chelsea from rhs.org.uk
THE ALAN TITCHMARSH NEW TALENT OF THE YEAR AWARD – sponsored by Hayloft
Dan Symonds
Advolly Richmond
Zena Alkayat
Lewis Normand
Humaira Ikram
RADIO BROADCAST OR PODCAST OF THE YEAR AWARD – sponsored by Evergreen
Gardening with the RHS: Beyond the Garden Gate
On The Ledge – Jane Perrone
The Organic Gardening Podcast
The Gardening Phone-In with Jonathan Ray and Reg Moule - BBC Hereford & Worcester
This Week In The Garden - The Sun with Peter Seabrook
THE ROY LANCASTER TV BROADCAST OF THE YEAR – sponsored by the HTA
The Middlesized Garden: How to Make A Flower Border Look Amazing, broadcast on YouTube
The Plant Based Podcast TV, March 20 episode, broadcast on YouTube
Gardeners' World. June 19 episode, BBC2
The STIHL Winter Garden Guide, broadcast on YouTube
Growing Vines by Penny Meadmore, broadcast online in August 2020 for the Virtual Shrewsbury Flower Show
THE PETER SEABROOK PRACTICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR – sponsored by the Garden Press Event
No Dig Gardening by Charles Dowding
Step by Step Veg Patch by Lucy Chamberlain
Grow Food For Free by Huw Richards
Heritage Apples by Caroline Ball
Grow Yourself Healthy by Beth Marshall
THE GARDEN BOOK OF THE YEAR – sponsored by Briggs & Stratton
Wild About Weeds – Jack Wallington
The Modern Cottage Garden – Greg Loades
Remarkable Trees – Christina Harrison and Tony Kirkham
I Ate Sunshine For Breakfast – Michael Holland
Diary of a Modern Country Gardener – Tamsin Westhorpe
FEATURES PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR – sponsored by Roses UK
Clive Nichols
Marianne Majerus
Richard Bloom
Jason Ingram
Carole Drake
PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR – sponsored by Field Studies Council Publications
Carole Drake
Gillian Plummer
Nicola Stocken
Bob Gibbons
Joe Wainwright
GORDON RAE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR – sponsored by Candide
Joe Wainwright
Jason Ingram
Molly Hollman
Richard Bloom
Marianne Majerus
PRACTICAL JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR – sponsored by Thompson & Morgan
Adam Frost – BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine
Lucy Chamberlain - Amateur Gardening
Naomi Slade - Garden News
Melissa Mabbitt - The Garden
Sally Nex – BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine
THE BETH CHATTO ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD – sponsored by Beth Chatto Education Trust
Lauren Hall for her ITV report on the new technology being used to control the spread of invasive plants
Karen Murphy for her column on the insects in your garden in Garden News magazine
Jean Vernon for her article “Return of the bees always gives me a buzz” in the Daily Telegraph
Marian Boswall for a TED talk on ‘Planting the planet – how our gardens can rescue us’
Victoria Gaiger for the feature ‘Look! No Foam’ on sustainable floristry in Rakes Progress magazine
JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR – sponsored by Johnsons Lawn Seed
James Alexander-Sinclair
Monty Don
Carole Drake
Non Morris
Val Bourne
THE DR DAVID HESSAYON GARDEN COLUMNIST OF THE YEAR – sponsored by Marshalls
Jane Perrone for The Great Indoors in Gardens Illustrated
Alan Titchmarsh for Tales from Titchmarsh in BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine
Monty Don for The Full Monty in BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine
Val Bourne for her Organic Wildlife Column in Amateur Gardening
Keith Wiley for columns in The Garden
GARDEN PUBLICATION OF THE YEAR – sponsored by Westland
The English Garden – editor Clare Foggett
BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine – editor Lucy Hall
CactusWorld – editor Al Laius
Garden News – editor Simon Caney
The Garden – editor Chris Young
COVER OF THE YEAR – sponsored by Cobra
RHS The Garden, April 2020 issue, designer Mark Timothy, photographer Stephen Dalton
Tokahi Forest by Dan Pearson, published by Filbert Press. Designer Julie Weiss, photographer Kiichi Noro
CactusWorld, March 2020 issue, published by the British Cactus and Succulent Society, photographer Ian Thwaites
Gardeners’ World, August 2020 issue, designer Guy Bennington, photographer Stefanie Baum
Garden Design Journal, November 2019 issue, designer Katrina Ravn and Simon Goddard, photographer Misha Haller
