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City Gardens Contest
 The
City Gardens Contest gives Philadelphia residents recognition for
their skillful and imaginative gardening and offers them the opportunity
to compete for prizes in several gardening categories. Launched
in 1975, the contest now receives 500 entries with teams of judges
visiting each contestant during July and August.
Home gardeners may enter front or backyard flower
or vegetables gardens, as well as gardens grown exclusively in containers.
Community gardeners may participate by entering their vegetable
gardens, flower gardens/sitting parks, street planters and window
boxes, or blocks with trees and front yards.
Judging
Volunteers are invited to judge based on thei r
knowledge and accomplishments in gardening. Vegetables and flower
gardens, garden blocks and green blocks are judged for maintenance
and horticultural practices, variety, color and suitability of the
plantings, design and total visual effects with extra points awarded
for imagination and ingenuity.
Awards
Winning
gardeners and judges are invited to an Awards ceremony held
in mid-October when the winning gardeners are honored at a gala
event. All gardeners entering the Contest are recognized with a
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society certificate for their participation.
Contestants are also given the opportunity to receive the judges'
notes on their gardens.
How to Participate
 The
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society believes that city gardeners
deserve praise and support for their work and ability to cope with
sometimes difficult growing conditions. The City Gardens Contest
offers gardeners recognition, and is a rewarding experience for
both contestants and judges.
Call PHS at 215-988-8897 for more information
or click here. You
can also use the judge's application
or entry form, which you can
print out and mail in. The deadline for the 2008 City Gardens Contest will be published here in the spring of '08. |
