Announcing the 2008 photo contest!

Can anyone advise me on what category hibiscus would fall under?

Looking forward to seeing all of your entries!

Trees and shrubs or Miscellainious I would think. BEV

Are we there yet?? 12 more sleeps sigh

Only 12 more? Hang in there dahlianut. ;^)

Thank you Bev, I had wondered about that as I have Rose of Sharon bushes and I also have potted hibiscus that I bring inside during the winter. Wondered if they would be perennials. I don't know what is what....... lol I just know if I like them or not.

Is there any write-up on what should go where? I'm having trouble placing some of my pictures.

The category's explained most.
What are you having trouble with?
I'm sure someone can help. there is no list per-say.

I just noticed that Dave put a Counter on the Contest Page!
Or
Have I just not noticed the Counter in the Past...
Wouldn't be the first time I missed something!
:-0
LOL

What's a counter? Is there an advantage for dahlias involved?

Lunch counter? What's Dave serving?

Sorry
I should have been more specific.
There is a counter as to how many photos have been submitted.
LOL...Dahlianut. Tooooo funny

I saw that, To cool, look how many we get to vote on. LOL

One can always hope GardenGuy ^_^ I saw that counter!!! 872!!! Cool!!!

HELP! The photo contest link has disappeared from my HomePage. Is there another link somewhere?

Extras. Then scroll down for photo contests.

Thanks victorgardener but I can't find this thread there. Only the entrys.

I put my in Favorites. kept losing it. LOL

tillysrat you are not only a living tribute to dahlias you are positively BRILLIANT!!! done. whew. ok panic attack over.

Hey I'm not the smartest, but I try LOL
I was having trouble with it too. But found a easy way.,

ok peoples you can stop now. 890. Yoooou hoooo I already entered mine so ya have to give me a fighting chance. Maybe? Sorta? Are you entering dahlias perchance? ok I don't like the counting thing. It's making me very nervous.

Let me go through last year and get the pictures I don't know where to put sorted out and then I'll come back and ask for help.

Sounds good zhinu. I'll be sure to send you in the wrong, ahem, right direction. TOTALLY KIDDIN! I'm so luving that everyone is entering. I'm a newbie to the contest but there are lots here who are oldbies who will help zhinu.

I am in my 2nd year, and still having fun with the hole thing.

Where would Ivy on wall go?

Higher?

snort. Garden landscape perchance? I wonder does Dave shuffle them around if they are misplaced?

L.O.L., Victor! My first laugh of the day. I'm still puzzled about cactus. Where can I add this thread to my favorites? I guess I could always find one of you all and ask! Guess I just did. I have not finished my tea yet. Brain not working.

It's tough to choose a category for many plants. I really believe more categories are needed.

The cacti were in the Tropicals and Houseplant catagory last year roybird.

A Dahlia catagory is definitely needed ^_^

Thanks, Dahlia. I think it might be good to have a category for wild plants but then, I suppose, we'd get in to the "wild or indigenous" discussion. For a photo contest, it might be just as well to avoid that. Aren't dahlias bulbs, by the way? Are day lilies rhizomes? Mine look like a gnarly knot when I have to separate them. They look like alien life-forms.

Dahlias are tubers. Daylilies are actually herbaceous perennials, not in the bulbous clan at all, and not lilys either. The gnarly clumps are very cool looking. If you sing to them they separate easier. Krumping to the the clump works too.

Second laugh of the day!

I'm pretty sure the categories have to be limited because otherwise it would be difficult to choose only 12 monthly photos out of, say, 20 category winners for the calendar. (There are 14 categories, but maybe that leaves 1 photo for the front cover and 1 for the back? I do hope a way will be worked out to include a photo taken by Trois, too.)

Surely choosing 12 or 14 out of about 20 is easier than choosing the category winners from all the great entries to begin with!

I think it's a tough call cuz I'm sure everyone who won a catagory would want to be in the calendar.

In that case, we should increase the number of months in a year!

Brilliant idea. Chinese calendar: a complete calendar cycle takes 60 years divided into 5 cycles of 12 years and then 12 months in a year. Of course I would be dead before there was another photo contest. bummer. OR we could use the dahlia calender which adds 2 additional time periods in the year: Waking up Time and Tuber Time.

I have seem some calenders that have 4 to 6 photos on each month.
And keeping with end the same theme.

Maybe one year we can do a weekly planner sort of calendar -- 52 photos, plus the cover!

I'm not being entirely facetious... I could definitely use a DG weekly calendar... I generally use a planner a lot more than I do a monthly wall calendar!

Here, here! I'm also a planner fan. 52 catagories. I can just picture my beluved Dahlias in the August or September weeks.