NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A purchase will not increase your chances of winning.
1. Sponsor
The Plant Addicts Garden Photo Contest (“Contest”) is sponsored and administered by Plant Addicts (“Sponsor”).
2. Contest Period
The Contest begins on July 16, 2026, and ends on August 16, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. Central Time (“Contest Period”). Entries received before or after the Contest Period will not be eligible.
3. Eligibility
The Contest is open to legal residents of the contiguous United States who are 18 years of age or older at the time of entry.
Employees, officers, contractors, representatives, and immediate family members of Plant Addicts, as well as individuals living in the same household as those individuals, are not eligible to enter.
The Contest is void in Alaska, Hawaii, United States territories, and wherever prohibited or restricted by law.
4. How to Enter
During the Contest Period, visit the official Contest page and submit the requested information along with an original photograph of an eligible plant growing in your garden or landscape.
Each submitted photograph must clearly feature the applicable plant identified on the Contest entry form. Entrants may submit photographs for more than one eligible plant, but each photograph must be submitted as a separate entry.
Entries must be complete and successfully submitted before the end of the Contest Period. Sponsor is not responsible for incomplete, delayed, misdirected, corrupted, or unsuccessful submissions.
5. Photograph Requirements
By submitting a photograph, the entrant represents and warrants that:
- The entrant personally took the photograph or owns all rights necessary to submit it.
- The photograph is original and does not violate another person’s copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other rights.
- The photograph has not been copied from a website, social media account, catalog, photographer, or other third party.
- The entrant has permission from any recognizable person shown in the photograph.
- The photograph does not contain offensive, unlawful, misleading, defamatory, or inappropriate content.
- The photograph does not prominently display another company’s advertising, logo, or trademark.
Basic adjustments such as cropping, brightness, contrast, and color correction are permitted. Photographs that are substantially altered, artificially generated, or that misrepresent the plant or garden may be disqualified at Sponsor’s discretion.
6. Judging and Winner Selection
After the Contest Period ends, Plant Addicts will review the eligible submissions and select the winning photographs based on factors that may include:
- Overall visual appeal
- Photo quality and composition
- Creativity and originality
- How well the photograph showcases the plant
- Garden presentation and overall interest
One photograph will be selected by Plant Addicts as the overall Grand Prize winner. Plant Addicts will also select ten additional photographs as bonus prize winners.
Public voting, reactions, comments, shares, or other engagement may be considered as part of the judging process, but public votes will not be the sole deciding factor. Receiving the most votes does not guarantee that an entry will win.
All judging decisions are made by Plant Addicts and are final. In the event of a tie, Plant Addicts may reevaluate the tied entries using the judging factors above.
7. Prizes
The following prizes will be awarded:
- One Grand Prize: $500 in shopping credit redeemable at PlantAddicts.com.
- Ten Bonus Prizes: $50 in shopping credit redeemable at PlantAddicts.com for each selected winner.
The total approximate retail value of all prizes is $1,000.
Shopping credits have no cash value, may not be redeemed for cash, and may not be transferred or substituted except at Sponsor’s discretion. Any costs associated with accepting or using a prize that are not expressly included are the responsibility of the winner.
8. Winner Notification
Potential winners will be contacted using the email address or other contact information submitted with their entry. Each potential winner must respond within the timeframe included in the notification and may be required to confirm eligibility, ownership of the photograph, and acceptance of these Official Rules.
If a potential winner cannot be contacted, does not respond as requested, is found to be ineligible, or does not comply with these Official Rules, the potential winner may be disqualified and Sponsor may select an alternate winner.
9. Permission to Use Submitted Photographs
Entrants retain ownership of their submitted photographs. By entering the Contest, each entrant grants Plant Addicts a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual license to use, reproduce, edit, resize, publish, display, distribute, and share the submitted photograph in connection with the Contest and Plant Addicts’ advertising, marketing, website, email, social media, educational content, and promotional materials.
Plant Addicts may identify the entrant using the entrant’s first name, last initial, city, state, social media handle, or other information approved by the entrant. Sponsor is not required to use or publish any submitted photograph.
10. Prohibited Conduct
Sponsor may disqualify any entrant or entry that Sponsor believes, in its sole discretion:
- Contains false or inaccurate information.
- Uses a photograph the entrant does not own or have permission to submit.
- Attempts to manipulate public voting or engagement through bots, automated systems, fake accounts, purchased votes, coordinated vote exchanges, or other improper methods.
- Interferes with the entry process, Contest website, or operation of the Contest.
- Violates these Official Rules or acts in an abusive, disruptive, or unsportsmanlike manner.
11. Privacy
Information submitted in connection with the Contest will be used to administer the Contest, contact potential winners, award prizes, and as otherwise described in the Plant Addicts Privacy Policy.
12. Release and Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, entrants agree to release and hold harmless Plant Addicts and its owners, employees, contractors, representatives, affiliates, advertising partners, and service providers from claims, damages, losses, injuries, expenses, or liabilities arising from participation in the Contest or the acceptance, possession, use, or misuse of a prize.
Sponsor is not responsible for technical failures, website interruptions, internet outages, transmission errors, lost data, unauthorized intervention, or other events beyond Sponsor’s reasonable control that may affect an entry or the administration of the Contest.
13. Modification or Cancellation
Sponsor reserves the right to modify, suspend, extend, or cancel the Contest if fraud, technical problems, legal requirements, or other circumstances beyond Sponsor’s reasonable control affect the fairness, security, integrity, or proper administration of the Contest.
14. Disputes
Except where prohibited, entrants agree that disputes arising from or relating to the Contest will be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and will be governed by the laws applicable in the jurisdiction where Sponsor is located, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.
15. General Conditions
Sponsor’s decisions regarding eligibility, entry compliance, judging, winner selection, and interpretation of these Official Rules are final. If any provision of these Official Rules is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect.
This Contest is not sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, X, TikTok, or any other social media platform on which it may be promoted.