I feel pretty dumb. Had no idea this was even happening this year. I check in to the site almost daily and just never saw anything about it this year and figured it went the way of the raffles or something. No problem, but I do enjoy looking at all the photos. Funny, in our current stage of fairly constant isolation, I feel like this is just another 'thing' I am missing out on. I take full responsibility for not paying closer attention, no complaint intended.

In any case, two questions: (a) how/when was the 2020 contest initially posted? I likely don't have something activated on my home screen I suppose. (b) is it still possible to see all the submittals, or has it now been whittled down to just the finalists?

Thanks, and good luck to all who participated. I will not, obviously, be voting this year...

You can see all the entries here (and vote, up until the evening of Dec. 1):

https://garden.org/apps/photoc...

Here is the latest announcement:

https://garden.org/newswire/vi...

And I have my home page set ("Customize Your Garden.org Home Page" on your site preferences) to display Gardening News & Ideas at the top right, so that I see the announcements for photo contests and other things. You can make this change yourself.

Thanks Baja. I'll add News & Ideas to see how that impacts my home page. I've lately pared things down quite a bit - ditched most of my badges and eliminated most 'watched' things. I do have something set to show me all new threads, which usually allows me to pick up on discussions I might be interested in, but must have missed anything having to do with the photo contest. I quickly scrolled through the non-specific plant categories and was pleased to see very few kiddo/pet photos. Since I do have a couple days, I'll spend more time enjoying the beautiful pics. Still about an hour of daylight, though, so out I go.

It was also first announced in the newsletter on October 25th and in each subsequent weekly newsletter after that.

I don't subscribe to the newsletter. Found it to be more of a daylilly thing, perhaps that's changed. I don't even know how it is delivered - via this site or via email? I'll try it again.

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