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Wow! You people know how to garden and take great photos.
More than 100 of you submitted photos for The Dirt garden photo contest, and those entries drew more than 8,400 votes from those checking out the entries on The Journal Gazette's gardening blog, We're Digging It.
Without further ado, the winner is Ron Grabianowski's anemone. The third entry we received, it was an early front-runner and stayed ahead of the pack from Day 1. His entry ended up with more than 475 "votes."
Ron, from Antwerp, Ohio, said he snapped the photo midday on a bright, sunny day. This made the snowy flower and a new bud appear to float in mid-air.
He has taken thousands of flower photos, and I've posted another today on We're Digging It. We'll be putting up other readers' photos in weeks to come, so keep checking back and sending your photos to garden@jg.net. The photos need to be JPEG attachments.
It has been a pleasure. All of the entries remain posted on We're Digging It, if you want to check them out for inspiration. Look for headlines that say "In your garden." While you're there, check out what our bloggers are talking about.
Jane Beard of Decatur comes in second place with an obedient butterfly. She was walking to the barn one day and saw the insect on her purple coneflowers.
She told it to stay, "not believing it would be there when I came back with my camera," and ended up with a great shot.
Sharon Long of Fort Wayne took third place with a little bug "posed so nicely on a shrub rose that I couldn't resist."
Anne Creech of Churubusco came in fourth with her rainbow hydrangea. The single bush has pink, purple and blue flowers.
Mert Mullins lives in Huntington County, smack dab in the middle between Roanoke and Huntington, on U.S. 24. Our fifth-place winner started with a vegetable patch 25 years ago, "and I decided that if I was going to labor in the soil, it would be in an effort to create a corner that would boast a riot of color, no matter what the season."
Marissa Swihart is our youngest entrant, at 12 years old. Her garden in Leo-Cedarville is packed with perennials, and our sixth-place winner is "in love with gardening!"
Charles Carboneau of Fort Wayne came in seventh with a close-up view of a geranium and petunia.
Lori Proffitt's photo brings to mind the Doris Day movie "Please Don't Eat the Daisies." Our eighth-place winner lives in LaOtto.
Ann Kharbas' black-eyed Susans came in ninth place. She lives in Fort Wayne.
Jan Karrick calls her photo of a beautiful swallowtail butterfly "Grace in the Garden." Her entry rounds out our Top 10 entries.
