Show off your green thumb and win cash awards and special recognition ribbons in the Paul Ecke Jr. Garden Show featuring competitions for large-scale Landscape Gardens and more compact Container Plants.
Landscape Gardens should offer ideas and inspiration for Fair guests to implement in their own yards back home. Exhibitors should attempt to incorporate the standards of water conservation, use of organic practices and sustainability, colorful plant material suitable for San Diego County — and when suitable, include elements reflecting the Fair's theme, "Summer Pet-tacular."
Big inspiration can come in small containers! Think outside of the box, and get planting in a creative container.
Container Plants are judged on health and quality, container selection, balance and symmetry, originality, artistic creation and more.
The Paul Ecke Jr. Garden Show offers two competitions, with divisions for professionals, amateurs, garden clubs and students: