Want a little recognition for your beautiful city garden or a neighbor’s garden? Is there room on your mantle for a Golden Trowel?
Come on, take a chance and enter Mayor Menino’s Garden Contest! Simply take a few dazzling photos of your buds in bloom and fill out a nomination form. The contest is open to all Boston residents, businesses and organization gardens with amateur status. Deadline is July 13th! Five finalists are chosen in 10 categories. Site visits are conducted to determine the winners.
I’ve entered the Garden Contest for the past two years. Year 1 – my garden was a finalist. (I was so proud. Even laminated my certificate) Year 2 – nothing. (I was robbed! That’s my tre
e garden entry below. Wasn’t it pretty?)
So it’s Year 3. And I’ve got my eyes on that Golden Trowel.
I’m planting a few more flowers in my garden bed this week. Need to expand the color palette. There is currently way too much purple in my garden – purple pansies, purple petunias. Going to spruce it up with some yellow and white daisies and red astilbe. Maybe even a pink mandevilla or two. I’ll share my submission photos in a few weeks.
“Boston’s gardeners work long and hard to beautify their homes, businesses, and neighborhoods,” said Mayor Thomas M. Menino. “This contest recognizes and
honors these green thumbs who are helping to improve our city with their talents.”
Click here to get a nomination form. Deadline for entries is July 13th. For more information, call Lauren Patrick at 617-961-3051. Good luck!
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