Photo Contest

Photo Contest

Photo Contest

Congratulations to all the winners of our 2025 Pamela Crawford Side Planting Photo Contest!

Basket Column Kit w/Basic Basket Planter

1st Place Prize
$350 Kinsman Gift Certificate

Basket Column Kit for Large Pots

This was my first year using the Pamela Crawford Column Planters!! I purchase her book and watched the videos on your website. Here are the Proven Winner Plants I used for all three containers -Top Basket and Sides: Graceful Grasses, Supertunia Black Cherry, Superbells Watermelon Punch, Cerveza Lime, Supertunia Cherry-burst. Bottom Container: Boldly Red Geranium, Cerveza Lime, Superbells Strawberry Punch, Supertunia Black Cherry"

Susie Burke - Roseville, MN


Border Column Kit with Metal Post

2nd Place Prize
$200 Kinsman Gift Certificate

Border Column Kit with Metal Post

I love how passersby stop to admire my Pamela Crawford Basket design. This year I chose a purple color scheme. In the center of the 16" Double basket is a Diamond snow Euphorbia topped off with Superbell grape punch. The side plants are White Licorice Helichrysum, Chocolate Drop Coleus, and Jet Black Potato Vine. The bottom is filled with Sparkling Amethyst Verbena, Bordeaux and Purple Supertunias, Super White Angelonia, Dusty Miller.

Liz V. - Bronx, NY


Border Column Kit with 16

3rd Place Prize
$100 Kinsman Gift Certificate

Border Column Kit with Wooden Post and 16" Double Tier Basket

This is a 16" double tier planter on a 42" post. It consists of supertunias Ultra Violet Hoopla, Tiara Blue, Vista Jazzberry and Snowdrift along with mini vista plum veined, pink cashmere Superbena verbena, wire vine and dichondra silver falls trailing. White Guara was used as centre piece. Colors are mirrored in the inground plantings below. This is my second year planting these baskets.

Sandra Bryant - Sault St Marie, ON


Basket Column for Large Pots

3nd Place Prize
$100 Kinsman Gift Certificate

Basket Column Kit for Large Pots and 16" Double Tier Basket

Pamela Crawford recommended Supertunias and I only planted four of them. Those four plants became quite dominant, almost swamping out the other plants. Plants used: Bottom: Dragon Wing Begonias Red, Calibrachoa Conga Dark Blue, Tradescantia Serrulata; Top: Supertunia Bordeaux, Supertunia Vista Bubblegum, Calibrachoa Aloha Nani Appleblossom (2), Scaevola Surdiva White Improved, Scaevola Surdiva Classic Blue, Torenia Catalina Pink, Pentas Dark Pink.

Barry Smith - Asheville, NC


Border Column Kit for Large Pots

3nd Place Prize
$100 Kinsman Gift Certificate

Basket Column Kit for Large Pots with extension and 16" Single Tier Basket

Trailing Sanvitali (creeping zinnia), Nemesia - Lionfaces (Cape jewels), Tiny tunias (Million bells), Geraniums. I tried something different this year by keeping colors simple.

Michelle Opperman - Syracuse NY