The Grow Your Health Challenge
Visit your local botanic garden throughout May and undertake one or more of the six prescribed wellbeing activities or a Botanic Garden Week event.
Each daily visit qualifies for an entry to the competition, so the more you visit, the more chances to win!
To enter, complete a wellbeing prescription and scan the QR code. It’s that simple!
Be sure to share and tag a photo #WhereYourHealthGrows #BGW2026 #your local garden.
Gardens can download the poster HERE.
Winners
Weleda Favourites Hampers
Kate Brereton & Phoebe Kelly
Frank Green Essential Gift Sets
Janelle Lucas, Ange Monitto, Edwina Forster, Rob Stewart & Grace Lynch
Backyard Botanist Vouchers
Amy Tallon, Nanita Heng, Zoe Roxon-Hunter, Natalie Onions & Racheal Karmer
Wild Earth Prize Pack
Azariah Toonen
The Wellbeing Prescriptions
These prescriptions are designed to inspire wellbeing activities in botanic gardens and are not medical advice.
The 20 Minute Reset
Walk for 20 minutes in the garden. No phones. No rush.
The Mindful Moment
Pause for 5 mins. Note 5 things you see, 4 you hear and 3 you can feel.
Move Your Way
Choose a movement. Walk/jog around the garden, stretch, try yoga.
Connect and Belong
Bring someone with you or start a conversation in the garden.
The Colour Hunt
Choose one colour. Walk slowly through the garden noticing every version of that colour you can find.
Volunteer Connect
Talk to a volunteer about the benefits of being a garden volunteer.
How to Enter
Complete a prescription
Choose any prescription to complete in your closest botanic garden. One entry per day is allowed throughout May. So don’t stop at one! And yes, you can repeat prescriptions!
Attend a BGW Event
Attend a Botanic Garden Week event at any botanic garden during the 18-24th May. Click here to view events are listed here but be sure to check with your local botanic garden.
Register
Click here to register or scan the QR code and complete your registration. Simply repeat the scan each day you visit to submit a new entry. Entries are open from 1st to 31st May 2026.
Upload a photo
Share the challenge! – Support the cause by uploading a photo in your botanic garden and tag #BGW2026 #WhereYourHealthGrows and your local botanic garden.
Prizes to Win!
Weleda Favourites Hampers
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Weleda
2 x Weleda Favourites Hampers valued at $250 each.
For over 100 years, Weleda has created effective, naturally inspired skincare using carefully selected plant ingredients to support healthy, radiant skin. Recognising the deep connection between nature and people, Weleda aims to create products that support wellbeing while caring for the environment and contributing positively to society.
This thoughtfully designed hamper includes Skin Food and Skin Food Light for nourishing hydration, the refreshing Deep Cleansing Gel, and the Firming Day Cream with Pomegranate & Maca Peptides to support smoother skin.
It’s a complete head-to-toe routine to cleanse, nourish, and care for the skin – the perfect way to experience Weleda’s natural beauty philosophy.
Frank Green
5 x Frank Green Essentials Gift Sets valued at $103 each. Each Gift Set features two signature Frank Green products:
1. 12oz/355ml Ceramic Reusable Cup
2. 20oz/595ml Ceramic Reusable Bottle
Frank green started with a simple, honest approach to sustainability – to reduce single-use plastic waste by reimagining reusable cups and bottles. Our mission is to stop single-use plastic completely. To do this, we only create beautifully-designed, premium reusable products that you’ll love to use and reuse, over and over again. Our multi-award-winning products are beautiful, functional and great for the planet. We want to empower people to make simple, sustainable choices every day. Together, we can move towards a better, greener future. And to be frank, we need to.
Frank Green Essentials
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Backyard Botanist gift vouchers
Backyard Botanist
5 x $100 gift vouchers from Backyard Botanist.
Backyard Botanist began as a whirlwind of plant deliveries when Melbourne’s COVID restrictions suddenly deprived a whole city of plant-lovers their usual fix. Jami, a Botanist and foliage-fanatic had always dreamed of starting a plant business, so when life gave her 2020, she set about making lockdown lemonade.
The business was built on the premise of helping others fill their lives with greenery, but as Backyard Botanist grew and Jami expanded the range, she became increasingly unimpressed with the disposable nature of many plant care and gardening products.
It was here that she spotted a gap in the market and set about sourcing the very best horticultural tools and accessories on the planet. Today Backyard Botanist no longer sells plants, focussing instead on an ever-growing range of handpicked plant care and kit, designed to help your plants, garden, and you thrive.
PLUS a prize donated by Wild Earth valued at $200
Your Health Grows Here.
Take the time. Step into your botanic garden. Feel the benefits.