Summer is done – and so is the photo contest. As is always the case with a photo contest, the fun is in seeing all the entries. I smiled as I opened them and each made me wonder about the gardens, wanting to see more. Indeed I was delighted to visit the blogs of those [...]
Weddings and old fashioned flowers seem to go hand in hand. So it is a wonderful new trend in the floral industry that local flower farmers are now being sought out as an alternative to commercial greenhouse and imported flowers. Even more cool, my daughter Annie found a local farmer in Virginia for her own [...]
Why oh why do we put our dear readers through this ?! It is hard enough to judge the wonderful entries but is seems like agony to many of you who enter. I read all your posts and more than one seem to wonder about winning and the judges’ criteria. How can This Grandmother’s Garden [...]
This months theme is Fill the Frame. We will be looking for photos that use the entire canvas with well constructed compositions. The succulent tapestry above from Jeff Moore’s garden in Solana Beach, CA was carefully composed in the camera’s viewfinder to include blocks of complementary plant material, overlapping triangles with strong lines and shapes [...]
A reminder that you’ve got only 4 more days to get your entries in for September’s Picture This Photo Contest. The subject that our judge, Christa Neu of Organic Gardening Magazine, chose is LATE SUMMER GARDEN TO read the initial post that explains what Christa is looking for in the winning entry, click on: September’s [...]