Nominate your Garden

We love looking at gardens and plants.  If you have a beautiful garden, plant or garden room in the Southern California no-frost zone, why not nominate it for consideration for our publications and website?  

Nomination is simple.  Send us a photo of your garden and tell us a little bit about it.  Nominations may be sent by e-mail or mail.  They will be reviewed by our Garden Scout and used to compile rosters of potential gardens in the different areas.  There is no closing date as the rosters will be continually updated, but gardeners in the San Clemente area are urged to send in their nominations without delay as we are currently working in that area.  

Guidelines:

• Include some basic information on your garden- its age, type, size and location.  Let us know why you like it and what makes it special.  
• Include a couple of clear photos that show its best features.
• Include contact information for you and specify your relationship to the garden.  Are you the homeowner/gardener?  Kids are welcome to nominate their gardens but must include their age and parental consent with their nomination.  Neighbors may nominate a beautiful garden in their neighborhood, but should first obtain the consent of the homeowner and include that in their submission.  Professional gardeners and landscapers are also welcome to nominate their projects, but must include homeowner/business owner consent in the entry. (1) 
• Include the name of the person who took the photos.  All photos are copyrighted to the photographer.  If you are not the photographer, you must include the photographer's consent to submit the photo as submitting a nomination or photos constitutes permission for No Frost Gardener to use the photographs and garden information. (2)   
• All submissions become the property of No Frost Gardener and will not be returned. Please be sure to only send copies and do not send your originals.     

Send e-mail nominations to: 

Send mail nominations to:  Garden Scout, No Frost Gardener, P.O. Box 818, San Clemente, California 92674-818

(1) Gardeners may opt out of having their gardens and photos identified by name by informing No Frost Gardener in their submission that they wish their garden/photo to remain anonymous.  Street addresses of gardens are not shared or published and identification of gardens is only done by city.  For our privacy policy please click here.   

(2)  Nomination grants No Frost Gardener free of charge a permanent, non-revocable, non-exclusive, non transferable worldwide and unrestricted license to use the submitted photos.  Photographers are credited by name for photos used unless the photographer requests his/her name be withheld when the photo is submitted.