For the last couple of years, I've been trading emails -off and on- with a lady who knows something about edible landscape design. She's begun to make a little bit of a name for herself on a national level, too.
Here's the problem:
She's invited me to enter my own Informally, Formal English Garden in a (small) nation-wide edible landscape design contest.
Going to be judged by professional landscape designers. You know. The kinds of folks who get to play with the big bucks on someone else's property. Topiary, tif grass, pergolas, pillars, hardscapes and other fancy things. Having worked in formal landscaping and the maintenance of formal landscapes during my mis-spent youth, I know what these guys do for a living...and the kinds and types of people they do it for.
IIRC, the big prizes are several free books and such, and some seeds - things like that, nuthin' real big. Mebbe a few hundred bucks worth of stuff @ full retail prices. Plus, a small sign to put in the front yard telling everyone that we won it....if we win it.
Be a nice little feather in my cap, though, even if we placed in the money.
She thinks I have a good chance to win, and she's not involved in the judging.
Problem is, our garden is only about half finished. I hate to enter a national contest of any kind with a half finished design. ...judged by professional landscape designers. This is the first landscape I've entirely designed myself from start to finish. So, I'm kinda jittery about being judged on it...
But, the possibility of winning? Yeah, that surely does appeal to my ego.
So, your thoughts: Do I enter a half finished design or not?
Win, lose, or not even enter, we still get good food outta the garden!
Pic is of the current state of the front garden.
Macmex
Okiedawn OK Zone 7
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