Alexandra Farms Design Contest Now Open
Alexandra Farms is excited to announce their third annual Garden Rose Design Contest is now open! And with a fabulous top prize it’s never been a better time to get creating!
Floral designers from around the world are invited to share their best work using garden roses.
Full and fragrant, with ruffled petals and delicate to vibrant hues, fresh-cut garden roses are a favourite with designers everywhere. And even though the world may be in a darker place they know you are still designing during these challenging times. With this contest, they want to encourage the incredible creativity we have seen within our global community.
New for 2020 is the fact that they’ll be accepting entries in one general category. Wedding work, everyday design and more. They (and us) want to see it all!
As always the prizes for are fantastic! There will be three winners: first, second and third place with all winners chosen through a public online vote in July 2020.
The first-place winner will receive an all-expenses-paid trip for two to Alexandra Farms, where they will visit the amazing** fragrant, rose-filled greenhouses and the Colombian city of Bogotá. The second-place winner will receive 500 stems of garden roses. The third-place winner will receive 250 stems of garden roses.
Scroll down to see last year's winners, details of how to enter and a bit about the wonderful farm.
The contest is now open and entries will be accepted till June 28, 2020. Winners will be announced on the Alexandra Farms social media accounts in late September 2020 and in the October 2020 issues of Florists’ Review and FLOWERS Magazine in Russia.
To find out more and register click here
About Alexandra Farms
Alexandra Farms, located high in the Andes mountains of Colombia, is the world’s largest grower of fresh-cut garden roses and the farm is amazing …. our Ed has been lucky enough to visit several times … that’s her with Jose Azout the founder.
Since 2005 they’ve been dedicated to producing flowers with the best appearance and performance possible. Now their collections include many unique and popular varieties with special shapes, colours and fragrances – click here to read about some new varieties - and these long-lasting, award-winning garden roses are available year-round through wholesalers across the world.
However whilst visiting the farm isn’t possible at the moment make sure you grab yourself a cup of coffee and indulge yourself with a visit to their website. Not only does it tell you the incredible story but is filled with oodles of information and inspiration … the only thing that could make it better would be smelly-vision!!
