Are your alpine plants looking glorious at the moment? Is your rock garden adorned with blooms? Share your pictures with us in our Virtual Alpine Flower Show for your chance to win fabulous prizes!
Launching on Social Media (Twitter, Instagram and Friends of AGS Facebook group) at 6am (UK time) on Thursday 12 May 2022, the competition invites you to enter photos of your alpine plants in flower.
This can be of a single plant in your garden or in a pot, a close-up of an alpine flower, or a photo of a group of beautiful alpines in flower in your garden. It’s up to you!
Virtual Alpine Flower Show
Alpines are not only true alpine and mountain plants, but also small hardy herbaceous plants, hardy and half-hardy bulbs, hardy ferns, hardy succulents and small shrubs; any plants suitable for a rockery or alpine house. If you’re still unsure you’re welcome to view the Society’s full definition of a rock plant or the list of alpine plant genera on our encyclopaedia. We’re also happy for you to enter your plant and allow us to make the call for you.
Create a post on Twitter, Instagram or Friends of AGS Facebook Group and attach your chosen plant photo to it. Add the plant name in the text box – don’t know the Latin name? No problem! Pop the common name in. Haven’t a clue what the name is? Enter with no name! We’d rather see your beautiful plants than have them excluded because you’ve lost the label. As an added bonus, if our judges know the name, they’ll add it for you during the judging process!
Arguably the most important step of all – you need to tag the Alpine Garden Society account in your post when publishing so we know you’ve entered!
How to do it? Start your post with the following text:
“For a chance to win a copy of The Crevice Garden book and a free ticket for an AGS Zoom talk this autumn, here’s my entry in the @AlpineGardenSoc #VirtualAlpineFlowerShow“.
Don’t forget to tag your friends in your post!
We have 10 prizes to give away to 9 very lucky winners!
Nine prizes will be awarded with 1 winner for each class on each AGS Social Media Platform (Twitter, Instagram and Facebook) for the following categories:
The prizes will be a free ticket to the subject of your choice in our upcoming series of AGS Zoom Lectures starting in September. The winner of the Best in Show will receive a free copy of The Crevice Garden book (worth £25).
It’s 11pm (UK time) on Wednesday 18th May 2022. So get your entries in before then to be in with a chance of winning a prize!
Winners will be announced on each Social Media channel on Sunday 22nd May 2022. Your handle will be tagged in the post to alert you to your amazing achievement, so keep an eye on your mentions on this date.
For more information, see the competition terms and conditions.
Absolutely! You can enter as many times as you like. Just be sure to create a new post for each new entry, following the 3 steps above. Simple!
The short answer is: Now.
The slightly longer answer is plant photos need to have been taken in May 2022.
This is because we want the competition to reflect the beautiful rock plants that are in flower now, while the competition is live, to keep the competition current.
If you’re one of our members who’s familiar with flower shows, you may wonder whether you need to choose a class into which to enter your plant.
The answer is no!
As long as your entry is of a rock plant (or plants) in flower, it’s in with a chance – just follow the 3 steps above to enter it into the competition
Yes, you do. It’s easy to sign up for an account and does not require much personal information to do so.
If you’re planning to enter a plant in a container and you fancy going to whole flower show hog, check out this video on how our experts get their plants looking their best.
You can read the Virtual Flower Show terms and conditions here. We can’t wait to see all of your incredible entries this week!
In the meantime, if you have any questions that are not answered on this page or in our terms and conditions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us on digital@alpinegardensociety.net.
Looking forward to seeing your beautiful plants!
Follow this link to discover our autumn 2021 winners along with our judge’s comments.
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