Announcing the Winners: Pets in the Garden 2010

What is it about pets that sends citizenry scurrying for their camera ? TheJanuary 2010 Pets in the Garden Contestinspired 112 people to send photos of not only cats and hound , but also a hedgehog , a squirrel , a parrot , a tree frog , and even a European elk . All , of course , were impossibly cute , and the judgement was unmanageable . In the closing , we selected two qat and two weenie . Each of the winner will receive “ The Incredible , Edible Garden in a Box ” and a one - year subscription toFine Gardening , Congratulations to the winners , and a big thank - you to all who entered .

We asked our success to tell us about themselves , and here ’s what they had to say : Flora Saperstein

Ziggy is a sweet and sensible cat , with a personality that assures he will always halt and smell the flowers on his means .

When I shot this photograph , I had just terminate garden for the solar day . I had build a novel flower bed and was proudly taking a few video of my new bloom of youth .

While play with the camera , a butterfly stroke swing by and settle on one of the Agapanthus . The bright yellow Monarch instantly catch my oculus , and Ziggy ’s too !

Ziggy carefully approached the scene and begin his brief acquaintanceship . I am very grateful I was there to capture this moment .

Carol Doersum

big cat and horticulture are two of my passions . I celebrate them atwww.catsinthegarden.com .

Gardening became a hobby after I moved to Texas . The growing time of year here is long and the selection of plants that thrive is huge . Watering is a challenge , though , so I seldom plant anything now that needs a lot of wet . I ’ve greatly reduce the amount of lawn in our little in - town lot , gradually replacing it with seam that I ’m filling with natives and drought tolerant perennial . I do n’t be after much – chance , impulse and serendipity flirt a big part in my garden .

I ’ve always had indoor computerized axial tomography . Since moving into our current home several years ago , my hubby and I have been adopted by 5 stray kitties who have become our garden cat . Oliver is the most late reaching . Cat naps are hard on a plant ; I ’ve had to replace what ’s in this large urn more than once !

Helene Erickson

One thing I have learned over the years is how little I know and how much more there is to memorise . I am currently active with the Lafayette Garden Club , and the Master Gardeners of Contra Costa County . I have also take several propagation form at DVC , the local residential area college . Kathy , my wonderful instructor , always tells the class that learning to propagate plants is addictive….and I agree wholeheartedly . What better fun is there than to get a cutting from a friend and start a new plant . My kids sometimes question when my cutting and seed tray splatter out from the glasshouse and come into the house — but I love keeping a close watch on my “ little babies ” .

Speaking of little babies , I also have 3 golden retrievers ( Shine , Heather and Kili ) . The puppy in the picture ( Hanalei ) is from a bedding of Heather ’s , and Kili is due with her first litter in about 1 week , so we will soon have more little pups to take into the garden for pictures . Since I live in northern California ( Bay Area ) , the spring heyday should be blooming nicely for our puppy pictures before the whelp go to their young homes .

Kathleen Knull

Dillon and I are thrilled to be among the winners . After seek to garden on a slope covered in extremely arenaceous soil for thirty years my serious gardening years are all forrader of me as we just build up a dwelling on 5 acres of forested land in the Pacific Northwest . The herbaceous plant garden was first to be constitute last summertime while we built a serious vegetable garden with 20 elicit bed enclosing 1,000 sq feet of garden grease and completed surrounded by deer fencing . We got some great late summertime and winter vegetables and are expecting a effective spring and summertime crop this year . I just barely got commence on the repeated beds last declension , begin with small trees and shrubs for the modulation into the stay forested property . I ’ve got oodles to instruct about what works out here and am thrilled to have basically a blank slate and unlimited way to garden .

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