Kew Gardens needs your votes to secure crucial funding for its mission to bring "flowers to the people".

The Royal Botanic Gardens' "Grow Wild" initiative is in the running for a £3,000 grant after making the shortlist of the environment category of the National Lottery Awards.

It is up against six other eco-friendly projects, with the money and a slot on BBC One this autumn going to whichever receives the most votes online.

Grow Wild, described as the UK's biggest ever wild flower campaign, aims to help people across the country get planting and transform local spaces into natural havens for bees and other pollinators.

It has already seen nearly two million people sow enough seeds to cover 3.7m square metres, but more work is needed to reverse the decline of the nation's native wild flowers.

Members of the public have until midnight on Wednesday July 20, to cast their vote at the awards website .

Kew Gardens this summer unveiled the Hive , an award-winning sculpture in which the lighting and sound respond to the activity within a colony of bees.

The site, which is across the river from Brentford, features on west London's list of the most gorgeous gardens in west London to visit this summer.