Gardening Challenge Contest

Tell us how you solved a gardening challenge and enter for your chance to win a $250 shopping spree at Dykhof Nurseries and Florist!

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Have you created the perfect garden to fill in that shady strip between your house and your neighbour’s? Mastered a hard-to-landscape spot with a beautiful planting? Turned a dreary balcony into a thing of beauty? Added a patio or garden room? Found a way to make your yard more eco-friendly? If you have solved a gardening challenge, send us a photo of the results and a few lines to tell us what the challenge was and how you mastered it.

The entries will be judged by the GardenWise editorial team, with the most effective “garden challenge solver” chosen as our grand-prize winner of a shopping spree at beautiful Dykhof Nurseries and Florist at 460 Mountain Highway in North Vancouver (or at another Nurseryland outlet in British Columbia). Visit Dykhof Nurseries and Florist (www.dykhofnurseries.com) for an exciting selection of perennials, annuals, veggies, fruit trees, shrubs, conifers, water plants, tools, soils, patio accessories and houseplants.

To qualify, send us an email and digital image to gwcontest@canadawide.com, or letter and slide or print for possible publication in GardenWise. Include your first and last name, daytime telephone number and city of residence in your letter or email.

All entries must be received by 5 p.m., January 8, 2009. Email gwcontest@canadawide.com or send letters to GardenWise Contests, 4th Floor, 4180 Lougheed Highway, Burnaby, B.C. V5C 6A7.

The entries will be judged by the GardenWise editorial team on January 9, 2009, with the most effective “garden challenge solver” chosen as our winner. The winner will be contacted by phone and announced in the Spring 2009 issue of GardenWise.

No purchase necessary. All entries become the property of GardenWise Magazine (Canada Wide Media Ltd.) who may publish them in upcoming issues of GardenWise without further consent by entrants or consideration (other than the awarding of a prize, if applicable) to entrants. Letters may be edited for length and clarity; photos will not be returned. The entries will be judged by the GardenWise editorial team appointed by Canada Wide Media Ltd. on January 9, 2009, with the most effective “garden challenge solver” chosen as winner. All decisions by the judges will be final. The winner will be contacted by phone and announced in the Spring 2009 issue of GardenWise. All residents of B.C. over the age of 18 are eligible to win. The prize must be accepted as awarded, has no cash value, cannot be transferred, substituted, redeemed or added to in any way. For complete contest rules, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: GardenWise Contest Rules, 4th Floor, 4180 Lougheed Highway, Burnaby, B.C. V5C 6A7. Send all other letters to the editor to cpope@canadawide.com