Clicking on the container category, one can look through 79 out of 101 pics. It's possible only the first few pics are in order. If only the first few pics are in order of votes received, IDK why it cuts off at 79 pics. Maybe the ones not shown didn't get any votes?
http://garden.org/apps/photoco...
And forgot to ruminate in initial post about botanical gardens. It seems like an apples'n'oranges situation to include them with personal gardens. For the former, the effort was as extensive as being somewhere where there was a beautiful scene to capture, and pushing a button. For the latter, the effort includes however-many hours of physical labor, planning, tweaking. It's "what I saw that others had done" vs. "what I did in my own yard." It might be cool to separate personal vs. professional gardens in a future contest.
I have no illusions about winning anything in any category because I'm well aware that most of what I do/appreciate/enjoy is outside the parameters of traditional aesthetics, being more about oddities and observing the results of experiments than trying to produce what most would consider traditionally attractive. For example, I prefer a Peperomia flower, or the minuscule, just-big-enough-to-see blooms I found on my watchchain Crassula this summer, to a Peony or daylily, and am well aware that few, if any, others would share the same odd perspective, it's not about me. But doesn't knowing that botanical gardens are part of the mix make it feel silly to spend a few minutes to jump into the fray? I think a lot of others, who do have traditionally pretty gardens that are among the finest of their type, on which they've lavished efforts for decades, would probably feel the same way? IDK.
...and it just seems like fun stuff to over-analyze during the off-season... when there's nothing to deadhead, prune, propagate... :+)
