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Enter our Photo Contest by September 15th

The San Diego Horticultural Society is creating a set of 10 note cards for the Society’s correspondence and sale. We are looking for beautiful photos by members of plants, containers or gardens in San Diego County.  Contest winners will be given a set of note cards.

 

Contest Guidelines

  • Log in to website with your email address and password 
  • Upload no more than 5 of your own photos in high resolution JPEG format
  • The cards will be approximately 4” x 5 ½”, in both horizontal and vertical formats
  • Any photo editing should not change the essential elements of the plant(s)
  • After uploading photos, add a caption to each photo using both the Latin and common name or briefly describe the landscape/plant collection
  • The SDHS board will select the 10 winning entries
  • Contest ends September 15th

114 photo(s) Updated on: Tue, August 06, 2013
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  • collage of succulents and tropicals living large in a narrow planting strip. August 2013 featured garden, tropical paradise in Olde Del Mar.
  • Into a Garden Place
  • Waterwise Tropical Paradise in Olde Del Mar, August 2013 featured garden
  • Golden Barrel Cactus
  • Exotic plant collectors paradise with aloes, cycads, euphorbias, proteas and more. The Arnold garden, 2013 Hort garden tour in Poway
  • Sinjen designed garden on the 2012 Hort garden tour in the La Mesa area
  • organic art
  • Del Mar Home
  • Frank and Amy
  • lava wall
  • Howard and Loreen
  • Hawaiian Ti and Dragonfly
  • Appel August 2013 Featured Garden
  • Appel August 2013 Featured Garden
  • Aphelandra squarrosa / Zebra plant
  • Appel August 2013 Featured Garden
  • Aeonium 'Sunburst'
  • agava parryi var
  • Clematis x 'Nelly Moser'
  • Clematis 'piilu', Pilu Clematis
  • Alcea rosea var., Hollyhock
  • Cottage Garden
  • Cottage Garden
  • Red Octopus Aloe and Artemisia by the Sea
  • Romans and Red Roses
  • Dragon Tree Entrance
  • Pink Melaleuca Retreat
  • Phormium Maori Sunrise
  • Serenity abounds at the Callahan Garden 2013
  • Coffee in the Garden August 2011
  • Colorful succulents and whimsical birdhouses on the SD Horticultural 2013 Garden Tour
  • Whimsical vignettes were featured on the 2013 San Diego Horticultural Garden Tour
  • Laird Plumleigh's Sculptural Cacti Garden
  • Aeonium Zwartkop, with Sedum nussbaumerianum in the background.
  • Trichocereus pachanoi in flower, with bee.
  • Euphorbia antisiphilitica in flower.
  • Aloe saponaria in flower.
  • Aloe attenuata "Red Margin"
  • Oregon Grape (Mahonia aquifolium "Golden Abundance") with Ceanothus thrysiflorus "Skylark" by Bob Norman
  • Spanish Lavendar (Lavandula stoechas) by Bob Norman
  • Flannel Bush (Fremontodendron "Ken Taylor" with Ceanothus "Frosty Blue" by Bob Norman
  • California Sunflower (Encelia californica) with wisteria and bougainvillea in background, by Bob Norman
  • Bloom of Passiflora edulis (Passionfruit/Lilikoi)
  • Tabebuia blooms close up - 201304 Poway garden tour
  • Tillandsia Abdita inflorescence.
  • Yellow Schizanthus or poor man's orchid.
  • Blooms of Mammilloydia candida, or the snowball cactus.
  • Agave americana variegata (Variegated Agave) used for a traditional Barbacoa to roast 70 pounds of cabrito (goat kid).
  • Euphorbia cyathophora (Summer Poinsettia)
  • Stapelia gigantea (Carrion Flower)
  • A riot of springtime waterwise color!
  • Echium Candicans (Pride of Madeira)
  • Waterwise garden in Bonsall
  • Red bloom of epiphyllum or orchid cactus "fireworks"
  • Perfect combination of palms, succulents, bromeliads making use of the 3-tier French drain system at the Via Alta open house designed by Dave Ericson.
  • Amaryllis/Hippeastrum, common name Pink Lady Lily, though very distantly related to the true lily, Lilium, at Via Alta open house.
  • White spider orchids of the genus, Brassia, stand out among the green foliage, at Via Alta open house.
  • Bromeliads and succulents coexist beautifully in Dave Ericson designed Via Alta garden!
  • Hybrid Epiphyllum (Orchid Cactus)
  • Matthys Succulent Garden; Linda Bresler, Landscape Designer
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