As part of The Courier's support for Garstang in Bloom and the town's Entente Florale bid, we organised the competition to find Garstang's best front garden.
Here are the photographs and details of the six shortlisted finalists for you to enjoy.
We invited our readers to vote for their favourite garden and they did so - in their hundreds!
The eventual winner was garden number 5 - belonging to Warwick Eastwood, of Larch Grove.
You can still look at the picture galleries on this page and read our short interviews with the finalists themselves.
You can also use our special interactive map where all the gardens are located in Garstang so you can even take a walk around town and have a look at the gardens for yourself.

THE GARDENS

Garden No 1

Roy and Marjorie Dexter
Bridgeway
Kepple Lane

1) How would you describe your garden?
It's tidy and colourful.
2) What is your favourite plant?
Probably a rose but I don't have any! I like chrysanthemums as well. My wife likes them and they take a lot of care to grow. They look nice and last a long time.
3) How long have you been gardening?
Probably most of my married life - about 45 years. I enjoy keeping gardens tidy but I'm not an expert.
4) How do you feel to be nominated?
I'm surprised. I think my garden's tidy but fairly ordinary. There are lots of lovely gardens. I'm pleased that somebody has admired it, but I only really do it for myself, not to attract attention.
5) Do you have any top gardening tips?
I'm not an expert, I just keep things watered and feed them. I try to keep on top of things and probably spend about four to five hours a week in the garden.

Garden No2
Warwick Eastwood
5 Larch Grove

1) How would you describe your garden?
It looks bright and colourful.
2) What is your favourite plant?
I like the fuschias, because there are lots of different species, and busy lizzies because they last a long time. I also like roses.
3) How long have you been gardening?
I've been gardening for 20 odd years. I just like plants. I like the garden looking bright for summer. I get a lot of satisfaction out of it looking nice and people coming and telling me how nice it looks. I had a stroke two years ago and this has been a real incentive towards my recovery.
4) How do you feel to be nominated?
I feel very proud. It's rewarding to be recognised. The neighbours all come and say they get more pleasure from it than we do, but we do get a lot of pleasure out of it.
5) Do you have any top gardening tips?
Weed regularly and as soon as a weed comes through get it out. Never let it get bad.

Garden No3
Amy Baldwin
22 Windsor Road

1) How would you describe your garden?
I hope it's colourful. It's to be enjoyed.
2) What is your favourite plant?
Dahlias and begonias, because again I like the colour, and the variety.
3) How long have you been gardening?
I've been gardening all my married life, over 50 years. I used to have a nice garden on the farm we had together.
4) How do you feel to be nominated?
I feel quite honoured, perhaps because people notice it as they're walking past. I'm very pleased.
5) Do you have any top gardening tips?
I think the best thing is to do a little every day and don't get over-faced.

Garden No4
June Kettlewell
Holmlea
104 Dorchester Road

1) How would you describe your garden?
It's full of colour. It's just a mixture of bedding plants and perennials and all sorts.
2) What is your favourite plant?
I like the astilbes. They just look like a feather and add a bit of colour.
3) How long have you been gardening?
I've been gardening for years. It's just a hobby. I grow all my own bedding plants and spend a lot of time in the garden.
4) How do you feel to be nominated?
It's rewarding, because all the elderly ladies that go shopping all stop and have a chat and they all say how beautiful it is.
5) Do you have any top gardening tips?
Use chicken pellets to feed your plants.

Garden No5
Les Danson
Grasmere
36 Dorchester Road

1) How would you describe your front garden?
It's pretty plain really. There's not many flowers at the moment but that's what heather is like. In another month it will all be out. It's simple to maintain which I like.
2)What is your favourite plant?
I like the heathers and conifers. They look after themselves and bring a bit of colour. I like the lawn as well. It's well looked after.
3) How long have you been gardening?
I've been in Garstang for 42 years but I've never been a keen gardener. When you're on a corner site you've got to make it look reasonable. In Spring I give it a once over and after that I keep on top of it. It's simple really.
4) How do you feel to be nominated?
I'm a bit surprised - shocked in fact. If you look at other people's gardens they look nicer.
5) Do you have any top gardening tips?
For the lawn, I just fertilise it regularly and that's it. I fertilise three or four times a year - every season.

Garden No6
Elsie Edney
15 Windsor Road

1) How would you describe your garden?
I just try and put a bit of colour in it.
2) What is your favourite plant?
My favourite flowers are surfinios, the ones that hang down in the window boxes. They last all the summer. I plant them at the end of May, beginning of June, and they seem to last until autumn.
3) How long have you been gardening?
I've been gardening for five years now. My husband was such a lovely gardener and I thought he would have liked me to have done something like this.
4) How do you feel to be nominated?
I'm very surprised to have been nominated again. I don't think my garden's very good compared to some gardens. I do my best. As long as people enjoy it as they go by that's the main thing.
5) Do you have any top gardening tips?
I'm not really a gardener - all I could do when my husband was a gardener was dead-head. I water the window boxes every night - you're not to let them dry out.