Pakistan Gardening Forum

This is the thread for posting photograph Entries in photo Competition



What to Post
Kindly introduce yourself in one liner as well as your plants/Bed/border along with your photograph. Briefly discuss plant/plants that form up the display in the picture. . If you are not sure about nomenclatures, you may seek help on the forum identification section. You are also required to submit a photograph of your entry from little wider angle for verification by organizers on following E-mail address.
photocontest@gardeningpakistan.com

No photoshopping is allowed.
Remember you must have three valid posts on the forum other than entry to be eligible for participation.

Container Gardening
This category includes Container Gardening photographs. Photograph may contain single or multiple containers arranged in a display. This category photographs will be of wide angle, therefore closeup of plant/containers should be avoided. Container may contain annuals, perennials or mixed. Creative gardening/containers will earn you extra points.





Last Day of Entry
Entries into Competition will be closed on 30 March, 2013

Number of Entries
Each member can post three entries in this Category. If you have submitted 03 entries and at a later stage you decide to change any of your entry, you may contact “Organizers”. However no change will be accepted after 25th March 2013.

For RULES & HELP regarding competition see post viewtopic.php?f=29&t=1547……

All Members are requested to restrict discussion to competition related matters in this thread and nothing else, failing which the discussion will be moderated, just to keep the thread clean and readable for ease of access by other members and Judges.

Entry 1

Begonia

Begonia is the common name as well as the generic name for all members of the genus, Begoniaceae.
They are terrestrials (sometimes epiphytic) herbs or undershrubs.
They occur in subtropical and tropical moist climates, in South and Central America, Africa and southern Asia.
Terrestrial species in the wild are commonly upright-stemmed, rhizomatous, or tuberous.

Entry 2

Petunia
Petunia is genus of 35 species of flowering plants of South American origin, closely related to tobacco, cape gooseberries, tomatoes, deadly nightshades, potatoes and chili peppers; in the family Solanaceae. The popular flower of the same name derived its epithet from the French, which took the word petun, meaning "tobacco," from a Tupi–Guarani language. Most of the varieties seen in gardens are hybrids (Petunia × hybrida).

Entry 3
Hostas are herbaceous perennial plants, growing from rhizomes or stolons,[4] with broad lanceolate or ovate leaves varying widely in size by species from 1–18 in (3–45 cm) long and 0.75–12 in (2–30 cm) broad. The smallest varieties are called miniatures. Variation among the numerous cultivars is even greater, with clumps ranging from less than four in (10 cm) across and three in (8 cm) high to more than six ft (200 cm) across and four ft (130 cm) high. Leaf color in wild species is typically green, although some species (e.g., H. sieboldiana) are known for a glaucous waxy leaf coating that gives a blue appearance to the leaf. Some species have a glaucous white coating covering the underside of the leaves. Natural mutations of native species are known with yellow-green ("gold") colored leaves or with leaf variegation (either white/cream or yellowish edges or centers). Variegated plants very often give rise to sports that are the result of the reshuffling of cell layers during bud formation, producing foliage with mixed pigment sections. In seedlings variegation is generally maternally derived by chloroplast transfer and is not a genetically inheritable trait.

The flowers are produced on erect scapes, generally taller than the leaf mound, that end in terminal racemes. The individual flowers are usually pendulous, 0.75–2 in (2–5 cm) long, with six tepals, white, lavender, or violet in color and usually scentless. The only strongly fragrant species is Hosta plantaginea, which has white flowers up to four in (10 cm) long; it is also unusual in that the flowers open in the evening and close by morning. This species blooms in late summer and is sometimes known as "August Lily".

Entry 1

Jasmines is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family (Oleaceae). It contains around 200 species native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the Old World. Jasmines are widely cultivated for the characteristic fragrance of their flowers.
Name: Jaasmine. Commonly called motia.
Other Name: Motia, Disambiguation
Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Lamiales
Family: Oleaceae
Tribe: Jasmineae
Genus: Jasminum

Entry 1

In the picture:
1. Petunias.
2. Vincas:
3. Geraniums:
4. Pansy:
5 Dianthus.

Entry 2

Multiple Seasonal flowering Plants in pots.

Lovely

Entry 1
Cactuses


Entry 2
African Daisy


Entry 3
Cactuses