Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Chatting on the Plot => Competitions => Topic started by: John on March 25, 2010, 11:19
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Spring in the Garden or Plot. Don't forget to put a description with your photo – where you saw it, what makes it special to you?
There's prizes – We've 3 copies of The Landscape Man: Making A Garden by Mathew Wilson to give away.
Written to accompany Channel 4’s prime-time TV series, Matthew Wilson demystifies landscape and garden design and demonstrates how the ideas and techniques behind the incredible landscape projects featured in the series can be translated to your garden at home.
Starting with the initial assessment and planning stages, and using the gardens featured in the series as case studies,
Matthew reveals the thinking that lies behind great garden design. He discusses the big issues that pre-occupy all gardeners: planning, providing for different needs, maximising space and working with nature.
He goes on to show readers how to capture their vision and transform their space,covering topics such as enhancing light levels, installing a water feature, and choosing plants for colour, texture and form.
Alluring colour photography and detailed hand-drawn plans act as inspirational visual references,
while straightforward action plans provide all the practical information needed to enable you to achieve the garden of your dreams.
Published by Quadrille at £20.00
This competition will run until 30th April 2010 - with voting open to members for a week after.
The simple rules:
· You can enter one photograph into the competition which should be no more than 640 pixels wide.
· It can be anything you want that is festive, or seasonal and would make a good greetings card!
· It should be accompanied by a short title and some description.
· The competition is open to all "Full Members".
· At the closing date we will add a poll for members to vote on and the most popular photo will be the winner.
· The winner will receive a prize as listed above and the winning photo may be placed in a permanent photo gallery along with the best runners up.
· Closing Date for Entries: Wednesday 30th April 2010 when voting will be allowed by all members for a week.
Full rules can be found Here (http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=15798.0)
Help Posting Photographs (http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=19476.0)
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a red ants nest i found on my plot while i was digging
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4451221073_6cbc93d72d.jpg)
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Not a brilliant picture - but the tiny pea shoot in the pic was the very first thing (aside of the weeds!) to grow on my new plot, so definitely the first sign of spring for me :)
(http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff221/Aunt__Sally/photocomp%2014/Pairofacres.jpg)
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Thought I had missed this one
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s184/judey_wooo/IMG01229-20100409-1512.jpg)
I cant think of a suitable name
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My friend at plot. re-united after i though I lost him.
Caption: Just woke up from hibernation. Hmm.. hot sun!!
(http://i838.photobucket.com/albums/zz310/prakash_mib/CIMG0041-3.jpg)
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Title: A New Start
(http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll181/Yorkie1_photos/DSCF0480.jpg)
These were flowering just as I moved from rented into my first owned house 3 weeks ago. What a lovely bright sign of fresh life and a new season of my life as well as the year. [Ignore the washing pole and weeds, unless they too are symbolic ... :blink: ]
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v490/LPidgen/038.jpg)
Just realised I should have given this a title etc... Took this today - the first ladybird I have seen this year on one of my blackberry bushes. So if the insects are about, spring is most definately here! No good at titles so I will just call it 'ladybird'!!
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(http://yqst3a.blu.livefilestore.com/y1p1x072kssAuqu7AqpCQBsfuj7mgRoudCshp1Ie_nkxw-MEAFmI1o2xqUCKZsX_O7oQ-e7zzdri3hILJIxu2LWxjOvgnIIsp7c/allotment.JPG)
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Please can I enter this photo in the competition on behalf of Joyfull?
she had downloaded PixResizer, but hasn't got to grips with it yet!
Title is: Look what I found on my Easter egg hunt
Description: 6 little araucana chicks hatched between Good Friday and Easter Sunday -
quite apt considering this breed is often referred to as Easter egg chickens
owing to their blue eggs
(http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff221/Aunt__Sally/photocomp%2014/GrannieAnnie.jpg)
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'Blue Tit nesting'
Took this yesterday, the pair were busy all day bringing grass and feathers to the box. The bird box is at the back of my plot luckily, so I won't disturb them when the eggs are laid.
(http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff221/Aunt__Sally/photocomp%2014/Aelf.jpg)
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Rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb!
(http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff221/Aunt__Sally/photocomp%2014/LichfieldLass.jpg)
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Ok, heres a few from last year, just thought i'd share them - i'll have to get the camera out and get one to enter for this year:
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh138/Bluedave78/Garden%20030609/P1160906.jpg)
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Aunt Sally, would you mind if I enter the following picture please instead of the pansies? I suppose an apt title would be "open wide" :).
(http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk41/Pep_045/swallows9daysold-piccies004.jpg)
Pauline
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King of the ( dung ) Hill.
(http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd133/daituom/100_0895.jpg)
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Lambs sunbathing in Appletreewick. This is my 2nd pic. Don't mind which goes in.
(http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff221/Aunt__Sally/photocomp%2014/HilaryG.jpg)
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Something fishy going on here!
(http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff221/Aunt__Sally/photocomp%2014/Learner.jpg)
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(http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk154/ChristineFloHewitt/crocus.jpg)
It's been one of those years again - just like last spring
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Taken from my garden this evening. I know sunsets are old hat but I love them.
Shepherds delight.
(http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u190/Dee56_photos/sunset001-1.jpg)
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Went down to feed the ducks this morning and this little gang came out of the rushes :)
Mum unfortunately took them past the Canada Goose nest who gave them all a bit of a sorting out but they all came together again round the other side of the island ::)
Looking for mum
(http://i42.tinypic.com/28wbdl.jpg)
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heres a pic i took on the way to my allotments at stourhead:
(http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/fishfish_01/countryside/DSC03296.jpg)
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The first Parsnip...
(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q75/Aidypunk/snip.jpg)
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The voting is now open and will run for 7 days - until the 8th of May.
I have given everyone 3 votes to cast as there are so many great pictures.
Cast all 3 votes in one go before pressing "Submit vote".
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The competition voting is now closed and the results are:
1st - Pep with 16 votes
2nd - aelf with 15 votes
3rd - Aidy with 14 votes
Well done all three of you - really lovely photos :D
If you would each PM your name and address to John or Val they will send you one of the three great prizes - The Landscape Man: Making A Garden by Mathew Wilson.
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Some great photos and congratulations to Pep, but I'm just wondering, how early do Swallows nest in Bulgaria? :unsure:
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Congratulations to the lucky winners - well deserved!
We will hear some snippets from those books, won't we? ;)
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congratualtions you 3, Pep I love that picture :D
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Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to everyone who entered and voted.
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congrats to the winners, lovely photos :)
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:ohmy: Blimey, that was close. Some really lovely photographs. Many thanks to the members who voted for me. With a few hundred square meters of garden still to sort out, the prize will be put to very good use :D.
Pauline
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congratulations :D
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Congratulations to the 3 winners and everyone else who entered. :)
I love looking at everyone's photos and wish more people would post pics with their topic questions, it makes the forum alive for me :)
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Well done to all 3 - there were lots of really good photos in this competition and it was very hard to pick just three out. :D
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I loved all the pictures - thanks for posting them, they were wonderful!
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Well done you three :D :D
Great pictures
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Just saying thank you to all that voted for me and congrats to Pep and Aelf.
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Rambo part 4 :D
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