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
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
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
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
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