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Show me your banana photo contest – Win free hosting

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I’ve been asked to hold a photo competition!

The photo contest is being provided by Banana Hosting and the contest winner will win a year of free hosting at Banana Hosting. The hosting plan can be any Banana XL plan (Unix or Windows) worth $172.80.

The Details:

I’m going to make this photo contest really simple.

Submit a photo of a Banana in action.

By this I mean doing something like driving a car, dancing at a party, trying to pick up another banana at a night club, swimming, doing a high jump … anything like that. Use your imagination but keep it PG.

This is your chance to be creative. Show me your sense of humor.

All submissions must be “Family Safe” entries. No photos of bananas getting hurt, or maimed and nothing sexual. Just nice fun photos.

The contest will begin as of today and will run until Midnight Eastern Standard Time, Friday April, 6th, 2007. I’d like to have at least 10 entries by the time the contest closes. If I don’t have 10 entries by Friday April 6th, I will extend the contest for another week or until I have at least 10 entries.

I know my readers enjoy photography so I hope getting the minimum amount of entries won’t be a problem.

How to submit your photos:

  1. If you have a blog or website you may post your “Show me your Banana” photo contest entry on your site – however, you must leave a link in the comment section of this post to the page or post on this site so that I can see your entry easily.
  2. If you have a Flickr or free photo hosting account (Photobucket etc) You can leave a comment with a link to your photo entry in this post.
  3. No website or free photo host? No problem. Just send me an email with your photo entry attached. I’ll post the photo for you. My email is dragonden AT rogers DOT com.

Please submit photos of good quality. Only photos will be accepted. Please do not submit drawings, artwork or CGI entries.

I will choose the contest winner at my own digression. I will be judging the contest for most creative and likely most humorous photo. So please use your imagination!

This is a fantastic prize.

If any of you are currently using a free hosting such as blogspot, wordpress.com, xanga or any of the others now is your opportunity to start a new site of your very own. Become a domain owner and have so much more freedom as to how you run your website. I can’t begin to tell you how much nicer it was when I finally started to host my websites on my own. Now you can too – and free for a whole year!

Note: If you make an entry on your own site for the photo contest you might want to mention that www.bananahosting.com is the creator this great photo contest here on As the Garden Grows.

Send your entries in as soon as possible. I’m eager to see how creative you can be!






Foxglove – an old favorite

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Foxglove:

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Well, this isn’t the best photo I’ve ever taken, but it seems that this is one of the only photos that I happen to have of this particular Foxglove plant. Honestly, some where in my gardening notes I have the name of this species written down, but I can’t remember exactly what species it is at the moment.

Foxglove are lovely plants to grow in the garden. Flower stalks can range from eighteen inches to four feet tall. There can be dozens of elongated bell-shaped flowers on each stalk. The color of the flowers can range from white, cream, yellow to pink, rose, peach, purple and almost black.

There are perennial, annual and biennial varieties of Foxglove (Digitalis). The most popular kind are biennial which means that one year they will only have green leaves, and then the second year the plants flower, set seed and die.

If you enjoy growing foxglove and happen to have the biennial variety you should plant seeds or young plants two years in a row in order to have flowering plants each year. One single plant can produce thousands of tiny seeds, which may germinate readily in your garden.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Trees in wait of Spring

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Trees in January. Empty branches, barren of leaves.

We’ve got an empty beach type theme going on across our sites today. This photo was taken one January in the Beach area of Toronto.

For some reason I’ve always liked the look of trees, especially when they are free of leaves, or in the early spring when the leaf buds are tiny and bright green.

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