Everyday Bouquet Contest - Sharpen Your Clippers and Win a $100 Gift Certificate

Happy first day of spring - today is the vernal equinox, even though you'd never guess it from the weather...

Might a prize nudge you into going outside, clippers in hand, to find what’s poking up and budding out in your garden to cut for a bouquet? You can scavenge roadsides for cool grasses or wildflowers, or exchange flowers or leaves with neighbors….the point is to get outside, gather, arrange, photograph, and enter our contest called “Everyday Bouquets” in the hopes you’ll develop a pleasurable bouquet habit.

 I wrote “Petal & Twig” to encourage gardeners to bring nature indoors, whether you grow it yourself, trade, or forage. It can be so easy and satisfying to gather what catches your eye and fashion it into a simple little heart-felt bouquet.

For the next four weeks, to celebrate my new book  Petal & Twig: Seasonal Bouquets with Blossoms, Branches, and Grasses from Your Garden (January 2012), I’m partnering with my publisher Sasquatch Books on a contest to reward you for messing around with flowers.  I’m hoping “Plant Talk” readers will enter our Everyday Bouquets Contest that starts tomorrow. I'll post a bunch of my favorites here as they come in to inspire us all...

To enter, create your own early spring bouquet and send a photo and brief description (100 words or less, plant names included please, if possible) to me before April 17th.  I will be looking for seasonal inspiration and creativity, for a sense of fun and joy. 

 The winning bouquet - highly subjective, I admit - will receive a copy of Petal & Twig, and a $100 gift certificate to Terrain.

 To Enter:

 Full official contest rules and guidelines are below. Contest begins March 20, 2012. Entries must be received no later than April 17, 2012, 11:59:59 PM Pacific Time.

• Enter for the chance to win a gift certificate to Terrain (Approximate Retail Value $100).

• No purchase necessary.

• Open to residents of the fifty United States and the District of Columbia, ages 18 or older.

• Contest begins March 20, 2012. Entries must be received no later than April 17, 2012, 11:59:59 PM Pacific Time.

• Winners will be selected on or about April 30, 2012

• Void where prohibited by law.

Entries must be sent to valeaston@comcast.net, and please put “Petal & Twig Contest in the subject line so I don’t miss them.  Entries must include the following: (Incomplete entries will not be considered.)

▪   Name (first and last):

▪   Email Address:

▪   Photograph of your bouquet (1MB or less)

▪   Brief (100 words or less) description

 Click below for rules and guidelines

 Official Rules for “ Everyday Bouquets” Contest

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE WILL NOT ENHANCE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

Open to residents of the fifty United States and the District of Columbia, age 18 or older.

How to Enter:

1) To enter the Everyday Bouquets Contest, review these Official Rules and complete the entry requirements, including your first and last name, and email address. Contest begins March 20, 2012. Entries may be sent via this website only and must be received no later than April 17, 2012, 11:59:59 PM Pacific Time. Limit one entry per person. The sole determinant of time for the purposes of receipt of a valid entry will be the computer servers of Plant Talk and Sasquatch Books ("Sponsor"). Proof of transmission (screenshots or captures, etc.) does not constitute proof of receipt.

2) Entries are void if they are in whole or in part incomplete. Sponsor assumes no responsibility for incomplete entries.

3) Sponsor is not responsible for technical, hardware or software malfunctions of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, failed, incorrect, incomplete, inaccurate, garbled or delayed electronic communications caused by the sender, or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this contest which may limit the ability to participate, or by any human error which may occur in the processing of the entries in this contest. If for any reason the contest is not capable of being conducted as described in these rules, Sponsor shall have the right to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the contest. In the event of a dispute over the identity of an online entrant, entry will be deemed submitted by the authorized holder of the email account associated with the entry.

Winners:

1) From all eligible entries received, one grand-prize winner will be chosen based on creativity, documentation, and presentation on or about April 30, 2012 by Val Easton.  Decisions concerning all matters related to this contest are final and binding.

2) Winners will be contacted via e-mail. The odds of winning depend on the total number of eligible entries received.

Prize: 

1) A copy of Petal & Twig, and a $100 gift certificate to Terrain (http://www.shopterrain.com/).

2) In the event that there is an insufficient number of eligible entries, Sponsor reserves the right not to award the prizes. 

Eligibility: 

This Sweepstakes is open to residents of the fifty United States and the District of Columbia, age 18 or older. Employees of Sponsor, subsidiaries, affiliates or other parties in anyway involved in the development, production, or distribution of this contest, as well as the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings, children) and household members of each such employee are not eligible to participate in the contest. Void where prohibited by law. All state and local restrictions apply.

General:

1) No substitutions, transfers or assignments of prizes allowed.

2) All expenses, including taxes (if any), related to receipt and use of prizes is the sole responsibility of the winners.

3) Winners may be required to execute an Affidavit of Eligibility and Release ("Affidavit") and if so, the Affidavit must be completed and returned within fourteen (14) days of notification or winner will forfeit their prize and another winner will be selected. Should the ARV of the prize equal or exceed $600.00, winners shall be required to provide a Social Security Number or a Taxpayer Identification Number to Sponsor for issuance of a 1099 Form.

4) By accepting a prize, winners grant to Sponsor the right to use their names, likenesses, contest entries, hometowns, and biographical information in advertising and promotional materials, including posting on the Sponsor's and author's website, without further compensation or permission, except where prohibited by law.

5) By competing in this contest and/or accepting a prize, entrants release Sponsor and the authors and/or editors of any books promoted hereby from any and all liability for any loss, harm, injuries, damages, cost or expense arising out of or relating to participation in this contest or the acceptance, use or misuse of the prize.

6) Any dispute arising from this contest will be determined according to the laws of the State of Washington, without reference to its conflict of law principles, and the entrants consent to the personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in King County and agree that such courts have exclusive jurisdiction over all such disputes.

Winners List:

To receive a winner list, please email custserv@sasquatchbooks.com

Sponsor:

Sasquatch Books

1904 Third Ave Suite 710

Seattle WA 98101

(206) 467-4300

Comments

[Karen]

What a wonderful idea! I hope you publish some of the entries, it will be fun to see them! xx

[valerie Easton]

Hi Karen,
I hope you'll enter - you have several weeks, so maybe more will be in bloom before the contest ends...love to have you send in a bouquet from your garden....
Val

[Chris]

Two questions...can we enter more than one bouquet and does the bouquet have to be made in the next 4 weeks. I have a couple nice photos...I think...of past bouquets...one of my faves is my last year's 4th of July arrangement.
This is so fun, cannot wait to see other gardener's creations!

[Chris]

Ooops, just saw that only one entry pr. person allowed so my first question has been answered.
Thanks Valerie!

[valerie Easton]

Hi Chris,
Yes, one entry per person, and all springtime bouquets. Who knows, maybe we'll do another contest in the summer for full-on summer arrangements...

Can't wait to see what you submit...
Val

[Chris]

Well, if it doesn't start warming up around here...there will be nothing to submit! :) So Everyone...THINK SPRING!!

[valerie Easton]

Hi Chris,
Cliff Mass says it'll warm up - check out his blog post last Friday where he writes we're in this "infernal pattern" of cold for about ten more days and then the weather will warm up to normal temps on into spring and summer. I'm clinging to his words, so hoping he's right...he pretty much promises a better spring than last year....
Val

[Joyce Woodard]

Now that we've had a few days of glorious sunshine, the gardens are budding with those beautiful shades of young greens. Everyday brings a new miracle of dicentra,trillium,hyacinth,hellebores,tulips, narcissus,glory of the snow...oh i can't wait tomake little bouquets for all my rooms with the inspiration of your book.