My Favorite Flower Box Finals! Congratulations to all!

Everyone in the cafe yesterday thought we were nuts. Walking in and out with our laptop, trying to get on to the local wireless connection and then finally accosting the waitress,
"Does your computer go online?"
Confusion
".....I mean, does it get the internet?"
Apprehension
"I see. It's just a cash register, is that right?"
Nodding.

Like a junkie without a fix, we watched anxiously as the seconds ticked by without being able to see what was happening online. Then we called Jill and she told us. She also typed up the post at 5:15pm.

With an afternoon surge, Cristy's Wow of a terrace garden pulled past Magaret's super sweet flower box, while the notorious MacPlanter held onto it's iron lead over Melanie's amazing block brightener (see all competition posts).

While the screenshots above tell the story today, the score at 5:15 yesterday was as follows:

Margaret 57
Cristy 62
Kathleen 31

Dave & Jen 90
Melanie 82

Again, this was a tremendous showing by all involved and we want to thank every contestant for sharing and making our days brighter. In keeping with tradition, every finalist will get a prize, while Cristy and Dave & Jen will get a squiggle to commemorate their victory. We will also be sending a squiggle to Melanie for winning her category since the MacPlanter really should have been in the DIY division. Cheers to all! MGR

Comments (4)

What about the "generous gift certificate????"

It's funny that this contest did not inspire the kinds of heat, barbs and accusations of some of the interior discussions.

No "Japanese Maple is so over!" or "That container is way too cluttered!" or "It looks like it came straight out of a Burpee catalog!" or "Phlox is so gay!"

Funny. And nice.

(okay, so some revisionist history, as things got a little heated on the coleus-front and the legal definition of "flowerbox"...)

Congrats to all, and thanks to all who submitted.

I'm surprised that the heat we've had this summer, where you have to practically elbow your way through it, has let ANYTHING grow! And actually, although I have no place to grow a garden, and the plants that I have had die so quickly because of my serial negligent botanicidal tendencies...

...I REALLY love the fact that other than help supply us with oxygen, that flowers pretty much have "being beautiful" as their ONLY responsibility. So, I'm very grateful to these folks who either pay their hard-earned money for them and/or lovingly grow them from seeds and/or graft them or whatever, just for us all to enjoy, whether we're walking by them, or surfing through them here. What a sweet, generous act.

My petunias and I are recovering from the excitement and thank everyone for the nice comments we got during the competition.

I hope the entries have inspired a few people to grow something on their own. It's not so hard, Curtis!