The National Trust has launched its annual Sky Gardening Challenge competition, with entries welcome from Midlanders who live in flats and apartments.

The competition has a range of categories, ‘encouraging participants to enter everything from one plant pot to showcasing how their balcony is attracting wildlife and pollinators’. Competition entries will close at midnight on Sunday 16 August.

To find out more, including information about the prizes that are up for grabs, visit the website at nationaltrust.org.uk