High Country Gardens is a family-based company that is on an unending mission to bring out all the beauty and color in gardening. If you’re looking to test out your garden photography skills and give your beautiful roses some publicity, they’re the people to turn to. Besides offering information and gardening products, they also hold seasonal amateur photography competitions, which include the Summer, Fall/Winter, and the Spring High Country Garden Photography contests. Here are the Grand Prize Winner and the runner ups for the 2019-2020 Fall/Winter Contest, as well as the promising finalists of the Spring Contest!
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