Container Contest Winners

1st Place: Shade Favorites

1st Place: Creative With Color

1st Place: Innovative Ingredients

1st Place: Three or Fewer

This year, Proven Winners sponsored our container contest. First place winners of each category are pictured at the top and the second place winners are below. Each first place winner will receive $100 worth of Proven Winners plants. The second place winners will receive $50 worth of Proven Winners plants. Congratulations to the following winners!

Creative With Color

1st Place: Jeanne Brownlee, Lexington, Kentucky

Plants used: English ivy, Chinese Evergreen, White Christmas caladium, Ice Dance sedge, Angel wing begonia, Dusty Miller, Algerian ivy and Wandering Jew.

2nd Place: Diana Ferrari, Suffield, Connecticut

Plants used: fuchsia, white Martha Washington geranium, impatiens and sweet potato vine.

Shade Favorites

1st Place: Marilyn Sokolowski, Clarkston, Michigan

Plants used: Sweet Caroline Light Green sweet potato vine, Saturn coleus, Charmed Wine oxalis, white impatiens

2nd Place: Karen Smith, Mt. Vernon, Texas

Plants used: caladium, impatiens, Wandering Jew cuttings

Three or Fewer

1st Place: Sharon Stevenson, Lockport, Illinois

Plants used: banana plant, licorice plant, Angelwing begonia

2nd Place: Connie Gard, Cobb, Wisconsin

Plants used: Littletunia petunia, Astra White osteospermum, lemon grass

Innovative Ingredients

1st Place: Barbara Lukes, Jackson, Wisconsin

Plants used: Popcorn Cassia, purple salvia, white Million Bells

2nd Place: Denise Lawson, West Bend, Wisconsin

Plants used: Castor bean, orange marigolds, purple petunias

2nd Place: Shade Favorites

2nd Place: Creative With Color

2nd Place: Innovative Ingredients

2nd Place: Three or Fewer