The Future of Garden Competitions + New Garden Greeting Cards!

A little over a week ago, thanks to CuppaZee creator Sam Hindess’s hard work, CuppaZee Gardens was released to much fanfare and excitement! The tool makes it a breeze to find Virtual Gardens to deploy in, or if you are so inclined — to create one of your own! Make sure to check it out if you haven’t already — even if you don’t consider yourself an artist, there are pre-programmed shape templates you can use to get started!

To keep the garden enthusiasm going, we wanted to make some changes to our current Garden of the Month competition! To celebrate we’ve also planted 3 NEW Garden Greeting Cards as well. Read on to learn more!

August 2024 Garden of the Month

As you may have guessed, it’s a bit too early in the month for us to have the winners chosen and this blog post all written — but we’ll do so by the end of the week so we can announce it early next week. The main change we’ll be making this month is using the Completed list on CuppaZee Gardens to pick the winners! However, as there are still so many gardens to choose from, please do continue to send in nominations at the Google Form here: https://forms.gle/SjUQeRxdi5FT81pCA

We need your help to narrow down the candidates!

September 2024 Garden of the Month

Then, starting next month, we’ll choose garden winners based on a theme we’ve chosen. If you’ve been following the GOTM in the past, you may have noticed that we already have been doing this in a way, but in a backwards order — choosing the theme based on the gardens that have been submitted.

The theme we’ve chosen for September is FantaZEE! Though it is no longer our birthday month, we would still like to see gardens that would fit right in with our New Dawn Festival to make Cappy feel welcome! So if you have a FantaZEE themed garden you’ve already created OR if you’re feeling ambitious and want to create a new themed Garden be sure to get them complete for September!

Otherwise, the same rules as before (which we have written in the Help Guide) still apply:

  1. Garden must feature non-licensed character designs.
  2. The garden must feature a Garden Places Pin.
  3. The garden must be published on CuppaZee Gardens, or built using a publicly available spreadsheet which we will ask to be locked after being 100% deployed
  4. We’re asking for ongoing nominations and we will release the winners throughout the year.

Regarding the last rule, please try to nominate gardens that fit the theme we’ve announced. And of course, if a garden has already won GOTM in the past, it cannot win again.

NEW Greeting Cards

Lastly, we thought you might like some new stationery to spread the word about your gardens, and to ask your fellow gardeners, “How does your garden grow?”! We’ve sprouted 3 new Limited Edition Greeting Cards available HERE! Although gardens aren’t typically temporary these Greeting Cards would also make perfect additions in a temp garden at an event or high profile area. Get creative and stock up today!

Munzee on!