Ready, Steady, Grow!

With only 100 days to go until the Olympics, we thought you might like some ideas to inspire you to grow all things floral for London 2012.

Step-by-step instructions can be found in this flower guide PDF.

1. Country in a basket: Run window boxes right down your street, alternating in red, white and blue. Show your support for your team. .
2. Grow for gold: To celebrate the Olympic Torch Relay, you could grow a garden of lucky golden marigolds.
3. Grow a Union Jack: Salute our finest athletes with a stunning floral flag.
4. The Paralympic Agitos: Make an impression on your front lawn.
5. Floral racing lanes: The race is on. Just don’t run on the flowers!
6. The Olympic Rings: Embrace the Olympic spirit with all five iconic Rings.

Chris Collins from the Blue Peter Garden was at Kew for the planting of the giant Olympic Rings. Here are some of his top tips to create your own:
'It might seem like a complicated design, but using flowers such a violas in the various colours of the Rings will make things more straightforward. Plant a nice bright leaved plant, low growing like Pyrethrum, around and inside the Rings to make them stand out. Or, you could just do a simple coloured display using edibles like purple lettuce, rocket or mint.'

Have a go yourself! And don’t forget to Tell Tom what you’re planning.

Grow for Gold

Encourage your whole street to follow your lead and make a real impact for when the Olympic Torch Relay comes to town.

Flower guide (pdf)

Get tips from gardening expert Philip Turvil on how you and your friends can put together an amazing Games inspired display.

Or, if all that seems a little too exhausting, why not join Team CP where we take things at a much  s-l-o-w-e-r  pace!