Winter Wonders Photo Challenge Winners

pick the winners of ourWinter enquire Photo Challengewasn’t easy , but we finally narrowed it down the following three winners :

First Place : Frosty fenceby Chandra Allison ( Luna_Gray )

Frost in Appleton , WA“The fog has been freezing for the retiring week , drifting in the atmosphere like coruscation and accumulating on every surface . ”

“ Frosty Fence was taken in Appleton , Washington , a very pocket-sized rural community near the Columbia River Gorge . I took it on January 20 , 2009 . Although the photo looks black and white , it ’s actually in colour . After about two weeks of freezing fog , all the color was wash out of the land .

I do n’t have much experience horticulture but I just lately moved from Portland , OR onto 5 acres here in Appleton . Although there is n’t much of a garden yet , I ’m looking forrard to starting a turgid vegetable garden this year . I guess I could ’ve taken a photo of the barren theatre of operations behind my house where my next garden will acquire , but I thought this fence behind it was much more interesting .

uprise up , my mommy bring forth most of the fruits and veggie our kinsfolk eat so I ’m hop to follow in her footsteps .

I am entirely an amateur behind a photographic camera – this is actually the first competition I ’ve ever entered . ”

Second Place : Winter ’s Artworkby Gail Dimaggio ( Daffodilly )

“ Gardens are as beautiful in winter as the balance of the year . Thesepictures are from my gardens in Northwestern CT . The sunset is fromjust up the street from my house . ”

“ The picture was taken around 10:30 in the morning on Jan 9 , 2009 on a bright , sunny , very dusty dawn in my Northwestern Connecticut garden . It is a borderline fence that I put up to keep my dog Murphy from coming into the border on his way to the “ untamed ” side of the garden .

I have savour gardening for more than 40 years since I was a small fry in New Jersey , helping my Dad in his vegetable garden and my mum with her small perennial gardens . My childhood neighbor had beautiful garden and was also my divine guidance . She would often necessitate me to make for for her in her rose gardens find fault Nipponese mallet and spreading mulch , and pruning lilac bush after they bloomed . As a kid I always enjoyed that work a destiny more than babysitting !

My efflorescence garden are very insouciant , of my own plan , and I am an avid veg nurseryman . ”

Third Place : Winter in the Hoodby jackielee

“ I ’m wondering missus , if you have any of that suet with those nice dry cherries in it left ? ”

“ This picture was taken from the sunroom we added to our house last spring . There was n’t anywhere else to see our wintertime garden from inside the business firm , hence the new elbow room . I hold it on a -20 * sidereal day in mid January . This was the perfect twelvemonth to be inside looking out , as it ’s been cold than all get out . Bye bye global thaw .

I ’ve been garden since I could take the air , 55 years or so . I startle with my great granddaddy , Magnus Despen . He grew peony , dahlia , the usual veg and all kinds of other flowers . Our nidus was the peony and Dahlia pinnata though . He even made me my own hardening of garden putz , along with a dry pint - sized coke shovel . He was no dummy when it fare to getting yard help ! What kid could resist their own sized peter ? Not me .

Last summertime my pappa was cleaning his shed and find oneself an adult - size hand cultivator grandpa made . I love to hold it . I ’ll bet the pearly-white gates have a peony moulding on either side of them . And that there ’s a marvellous easy spoken old Norwegian bozo making certain they ’re primed for the heavens . ”

Our first office success will meet a one - twelvemonth subscription toFine Gardeningmagazine , aFine Gardeningtote bag , a complete 2008 set ofFine Gardeningspecial interest publications ( Design Ideas , Great Plants , Great Gardens , Container Gardening and Outdoor Design & Living ) , and a complete lot of theFine GardeningHow - To DVD - read-only memory ( Pruning , Propagation , Gardening Techniques 1 , Gardening Techniques 2 , and Gardening technique 3 ) .

Our 2d and third topographic point winners will invite aFine Gardeningsubscription and aFine Gardeningtote base . Thanks again to all who participated . Do n’t miss February ’s photo challenge , Pets in the Garden .

We also loved :

Ice Fenceby AnnL

Shagbark hickoryby jcihula

Snowy Miller by CRSmith

Sunrise and My Gardenby Littleton

Blooming Winterby sakurasakura

Snow - cappedSedum by tgussie

Blue Spruceby DebHS

Neverending Gardenby GibsoniaPA

Iced Berriesby LPratt

Icescapeby DOUBLE

Nipponese Maple ‘ en glace’by Corralgirl

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