Spring is in the air and the Lowcountry’s gardeners are already nurturing the lovely green world adorned with Southern charm.
This week, we asked our readers to explore the secrets of the natural world and share with other readers their dream garden’s inspiration.
The winner this week is Bill Goff with his stunning view of the Butchart Gardens on Victoria Island in British Columbia, certain to grace anyone with a green thumb.
From Randy Cochran of Charleston, “Public garden overlooking the Amalfi Coast, taken in Ravello, Italy.”
Honorable mentions go to Randy Cochran of Charleston, with a stunning landscape of a public garden near Italy’s Amalfi Coast, and Merv Gibson of Charleston, with the Giverny, France, garden which inspired Claude Monet’s water lily paintings.
From Merv Gibson of Charleston, “Photo of Monet’s “Asian Garden” at Giverny, France. The featured water lily pad lake is credited for inspiring Monet’s famous ‘Water Lilies’ paintings: approximately 250 variations.”
Next week’s topic is “marsh birds,” so whet your beaks with photos of the Lowcountry’s avian friends.
The rules. Send your best photo to yourphotos@postandcourier.com by noon Thursday. Include your name and town, and a description of where the photo was taken. Be sure to add the topic to the file. If you want your photo to be eligible to run in the newspaper, it must be at least 1,500 pixels, not have a commercial watermark and not have been published in another publication.
On Fridays, we first announce the editors’ pick of the week at postandcourier.com/yourphotos and declare a topic for the next week. On Saturdays, we publish an online gallery.
On Sunday, the photo pick of the week will appear in this section, Life.
All photos submitted will be considered for publication in The Post and Courier’s yearly magazine, My Charleston. Some images may be selected for other editorial or noncommercial use.
We reserve the right to not publish any photo for any reason.