Annual JCMGA 2025 Photo Contest Winners

 

The Jackson County Master Gardener™ Association Member Services Working Group (MSWG) would like to announce the winners of its annual photo contest for 2025.

Thank you to those who submitted photos for the front cover of our JCMGA 2025 Chapter Directory.

With many wonderful pictures to choose from, it was a difficult decision.

The overall winner was Linda Jo Millus (2023) with her photo “Echinacea – Cone Flower”.

“I just love Echinacea- Cone flower, part of the Daisy family. I have several beds of them.

They are very easy to grow and maintain. They really don’t take a lot of care and are pretty drought and pest tolerant, also, a great pollinator as well.

This Echinacea bed is in our front yard beside a stream. The happy colors and sturdy flowers bloom all Summer into Fall if you keep them deadheaded. I love the variety of colors. Also, they self-sow which is a real bonus. They fit in nicely in my cottage type garden. 

If you don’t have any in your yard, I suggest you try one. We have Native Coneflower plants in our Native Nursery @ SOREC if you prefer a Native, I have both”   Linda Jo Millus

 

 

 

 

Our Runner Up in this year’s Photo Contest was Susan Hoehn with her beautiful photo. 

“This Cornus florida is one of the three Flowering dogwoods I am fortunate to have growing in my yard in Phoenix. I can’t say it’s a constant source of delight, as it is unglamorous in the winter. But its glorious green leaves in the dog(wood) days of summer turn a ravishing red in the fall, and such fabulous flowers spring forth in the spring as to render me awestruck. I captured this photo using the 0.5 Ultrawide lens on my iphone 15 Pro on a splendidly sunny day in April, 2024.”  Susan Hoehn