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@dirtdorphins submitted this image in the Landscapes and Gardens category of the The 2015 All Things Plants Photo Contest.Name: Zuzu Northern California (Zone 9a)              |
| Wow! You won first, second, and third place in this category and you deserved it. |
Name: Bev Salem OR (Zone 8a)       webesemps Dec 8, 2015 11:30 PM CST |
| That is amazing! Dirt, these are all your gardens, right? |
Name: Dirt (Zone 5b)         dirtdorphins Dec 9, 2015 1:58 PM CST |
| Omg! thank you Zuzu and Bev! I can't really believe it nor do I really deserve it--but yes, these are my gardens and I am so very flattered! |
Name: Magga Reykjavik, Iceland (Zone 4a)          magga Dec 10, 2015 3:09 PM CST |
Your photos are all so beautiful Dirt, you have an artistic eye. And this was no surprise to me.  congratulations Magga |
Name: Sheila Caldon Aiken, SC (Zone 8a)           SheilaC Dec 11, 2015 5:27 PM CST |
| Congratulations on your wins!!! I thought all of your submissions were excellent and worthy of an award! Enjoyed all of them! Beauty pleases, not only the eyes, but the heart as well. ~~Sheila |
Name: Dirt (Zone 5b) dirtdorphins Dec 11, 2015 6:20 PM CST |
| Thank you Magga and Sheila! |
Name: Jeanie Minnesota (Zone 4a) Replace your lawn with a garden!         foraygardengirl Dec 15, 2015 6:09 PM CST |
| I knew as I saw these photos that they were yours, Dirt, and at least two of them got my vote. Very beautiful, and you deserved the sweep. Congratulations! :+:+:+:+:+:+:+:+: Old gardeners never die. They are just pruned and repotted. |
Name: Lin Sebastian, Florida (Zone 10a)       plantladylin Dec 15, 2015 7:23 PM CST |
This is one of my all time favorite garden photos ... really, really beautiful!  ~ Playing in the dirt is my therapy ... and I'm in therapy a lot! ~ |
Name: Audrey Central Texas (Zone 8a)     Esperanza Dec 15, 2015 7:48 PM CST |
I voted on this as well. I missed the first voting but this was really pleasing to the eye. Thank you for sharing your hard work. I do love color and you made a very nice palette of goodies  |
Name: Dirt (Zone 5b) dirtdorphins Dec 15, 2015 7:48 PM CST |
| Oh wow--Thank you Jeanie and Lin and Esperanza ! I cannot possibly express how much this honor means to me. And I am still quite shocked to have won  The three pictures are all from the same garden actually, the other two from early in the spring and this one in August. It's kind of a wild thing full of surprises  |
Name: ursula Chile (Zone 9b)  Mutisia Dec 15, 2015 8:40 PM CST |
| This picture was my choice as well! |
Name: Asa  evermorelawnless Dec 16, 2015 4:43 AM CST |
| Just a couple of notes on Dirt's gardens (from really a non-gardener): She plays "plant tetris" in absolutely unimaginable ways. How she packs the x, y, and z axis like she does baffles me. But the result is what I like to call "fireworks in slow motion". The first blossom last year (foothills of the rockies) was a crocus in January - and thanks to a late fall, we had some viable purplesomethings blooming in December. It's almost a different garden each week...and surely each month. One year, I'm going to take a weekly, fixed shot of one of her gardens and animate it - to show the stop-action fireworks show. The other thing with the plant packing and plant tetris is that each garden seems like its own little ecosystem. Plants competing for resources - pushing and pushing back - getting snipped and clipped and relocated - it's remarkable to me to watch the lifecycles of the various individual members of the system - and seeing the system work within itself to try to find and maintain equilibriums. I love that so much more than the industrial, box-store-petunias-and-marigolds-in-a-row-and-at-right-angles-at-the-doctor's-office kind of gardening. She's got both an eye for it and a love for it. And I just get to keep getting amazed by the art that she makes in and with her gardens. This is fun: The thread "Asa's former lawn...or (better) Dirt's current gardens" in Garden Photos forum I update this sometimes: https://garden.org/blogs/view/... |
Name: josephine Arlington, Texas (Zone 8a) Hi Everybody!! Let us talk native.    frostweed Dec 16, 2015 8:06 AM CST |
| I voted for this picture as well, I love the mix of colors and textures, very different and creative. Wildflowers are the Smiles of Nature. Gardening with Texas Native Plants and Wildflowers. |
Coatesville IN (Zone 5b)     Claudia Dec 16, 2015 8:19 AM CST |
| This category is the one I the hardest to judge! All of the entries were so beautiful. To win the top three spots is amazing! Congratulations to @dirtdorphins! “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” - Alan Keightley |
Name: Debra Garland, TX (NE Dallas suburb) (Zone 8a) Service dogs: Angels with paws.     lovemyhouse Dec 16, 2015 11:27 AM CST |
| I voted for that one, too. It’s okay to not know all the answers. |
Sweden    William Dec 16, 2015 11:58 AM CST |
| Wonderful image and a richly deserved win |
Name: Dirt (Zone 5b) dirtdorphins Dec 16, 2015 8:36 PM CST |
| oh my gosh, Asa's post almost creates the illusion that I somehow orchestrate the show--uh, thanks hun |
Name: Ann ~Heat zn 9, Sunset North Fl. (Zone 8b)  flaflwrgrl Dec 16, 2015 8:56 PM CST |
evermorelawnless said:Just a couple of notes on Dirt's gardens (from really a non-gardener): And all of what you stated here Asa is quite simply because she is completely tuned in to the earth. Her screen name says it perfectly. Dirtdorphins. Her gardens are nourished by her as she is nourished by them. And I'm not talking about fertilizer. I am a strong believer in the simple fact is that what matters in this life is how we treat others. I think that's what living is all about. Not what I've done in my life but how I've treated others. ~~ Sharon Brown ~~ |
Name: ursula Chile (Zone 9b) Mutisia Dec 16, 2015 9:11 PM CST |
| Dirt, is there a forum where you have posted more pictures of your garden? I would like to see more of it |
Name: Andi Boca Raton, FL (Zone 10b)   GardenQuilts Dec 16, 2015 10:02 PM CST |
| I love your mixed plantings, dirtdorphins! I am trying to learn more about creating cottage garden plantings. It is a challenge to choose the right plants and an even bigger challenge to keep the planting interesting all year round! |
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