Garden club photo competition - deadline for photos August 14

**forestdale** · 06-25-2005, 10:42 PM

Ladies and gentlemen, the garden club photo competition will end on August 14. Everyone in the garden club is welcome to enter. This is a new thread for the competition, so Bridge and Momof42003 would you both please reattach your photos into this thread please. Thank you.

PLEASE DO NOT POST TO THIS THREAD unless you're entering a photo and its description.

COMPETITION RULES

Take a photo in your garden, or submit an old photo you took in the past. I'm not looking for the "best" garden, rather a photo that shows something of interest in the garden. Picture perfect rows of roses might not win this one but one rose on a garden seat might. I want to see your creativity, I want interest and humour. Maybe you have an old boot in which some violets are growing, maybe it's your cat asleep under the apple tree.

You must be a gardening club member to take part. Each member may submit two photos each.

PRIZES
There are three prizes.

The main prize is aMary Engelbreit Gardener's Journal. The journal is a hard covered book containing helpful information as well as pages where you can map out your own garden, record what you planted - and when, tips for pruning and cutting flowers and much more. Along with the journal are a package of organic Grosse Lisse tomato seeds, a package of organic sweet basil seeds and a package of Flannel Flowers - an Australian native daisy which has furry petals.

The second prize is a package of the herb Catmint, a package of organic Verdi Cos lettuce, a package of organic climbing Blue Lake green beans, a package of Pixie hybrid 11 tomato - a disease-resistant cherry tomato, a package of African horned cucumber seeds and a package of Pink Paper Daisy seeds - these are a beautiful pink Australian daisy.

Third prize is a package of organic Melting Mammonth snowpea seeds, a package of Sweet Genovese basil seeds,a package of organic tarragon seeds, a package of oregano seeds, a package of Flanders red poppy seeds and a package of Swan River Daisy seeds - a pinky mauve small Australian native daisy.

I have included Australian native seeds in each prize package and I love the thought of them, and all of the others, being grown so far away.

Please PM me if you have any questions about the competition.

Good luck everyone.

**daddys3chicks** · 06-30-2005, 01:03 PM

My little corner of whimsy by my front door - my potted begonia with Francine Flamingo standing watch -don't know if this qualifies or not:

**lacyj** · 06-30-2005, 10:32 PM

This is my favorite tree. We got it 8 years ago. It was in a coffee can and very curvy. It looked like Snoopy's christmas tree. It was from a bankrupt nursery. Some friends loaded up their truck with allllll they could carry and brought it to DH for his 60 b'day. Then they left. It took 3 weekends to plant everything and NOTHING was labeled. They brought about 100 trees, bushes and shrubs. wow...

**forestdale** · 08-12-2005, 03:58 PM

This is your last chance to enter the competition. Sunday is the final day.

**momof42003** · 08-13-2005, 02:43 AM

These are my Iris' that I planted almost three years ago.. The photo is about two years old, but they still look just as pretty as this.....

**momof42003** · 08-13-2005, 02:56 AM

Since I reread the post and it says that we can have 2 photos, I thought I would share my beautiful peonies, taken at the same time I took the photo of my Iris'.... I love these..

**momof42003** · 08-13-2005, 02:57 AM

Just curious... Why the repost????? TIA...

**forestdale** · 08-13-2005, 03:08 PM

Bonnie, I made this new thread for competition photos only.

**Kimberlina** · 08-13-2005, 04:42 PM

This is a picure I just took in my garden. I went out and noticed that SOOO many of my flowers have bzzzzzzy little visitors today- my rose of sharon is LOADED with bees, but I like the way this picture turned out better.

This is a "weed" I never took out- I think the flower is gorgeous and so I got up very close to get a picture of this bee hard at work.

**Kimberlina** · 08-13-2005, 05:22 PM

These are simply some of my concords. Ithink they are beautifully elegant on their own.

(Sorry Rhonda, no real whimsy in my garden this year. I did feel like drawing faces on my cherry tomatoes yesterday because their leaves curled up like little crowns, but I had already picked them....)

**cheapgeek** · 08-13-2005, 06:23 PM

The naughty squash that doesn't play well with the other children.

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The progressive greening of my window sill.

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**forestdale** · 08-14-2005, 02:46 PM

The competition will close in a few hours. Get your entries in now.

**KKCondrey** · 08-14-2005, 04:58 PM

This is the Rose of Sharon that sprung up in the middle of our bed of lillies. We have them all along the side of our house and in the back under our bedroom window.

**KKCondrey** · 08-14-2005, 05:02 PM

This is the tomato plant that over took the whole garden. It's broken almost all the stakes with used to stake it up with and is growing on the ground now as well. I picked 4 tomatoes off of it yesterday and now there are more turning (after this season I may be sick of tomatoes for a while.....lol