2025 Spring Garden Contest Winners
The virtual world There.com is excited announce the Grand Prize Winner and Runner-Up of this year’s Spring Garden Contest!
The competition was fierce, with so many incredible virtual garden entries showcasing creativity, beauty, and meticulous design. Our talented gardeners truly went all out in There.com, crafting breathtaking landscapes that are a delight to explore. Each garden is a masterpiece, where every flower, tree, and plant were placed with care and precision, creating stunning displays of virtual nature. We encourage everyone to take a tour and admire these wonderful creations!
To ensure a fair selection, each participant’s name was placed on a spinning wheel, the winners were chosen by the name the spin landed on. 1st spin was for the Grand Prize and the 2nd spin was for Runner-Up. Every entry turned in this year was amazing, with flowers, trees, and plants carefully placed to create beautiful and unique designs. We’re glad this contest was a game of chance because if we had to vote for the winners, it would be a very difficult decision.
2025 Spring Garden Contest Grand Prize Winner
A big congratulations to Bawble & Gibbletz for winning the Grand Prize in this year’s Spring Garden Contest! Their breathtaking high in the sky Floater Garden in the Mahalo Fantasy Forest Neighborhood wowed us all with its creativity and stunning design. The Lot owner has earned a free month of rent. The co-builders, Bawble & Gibbletz will both win a Tropical Rock Waterfall designed by Flygirl_Dani. Click through the slideshow below to view the pictures of their magical moonlit floating garden.
2025 Spring Garden Contest Runner Up
Congratulations to our Runner-Up Susanszy for her enchanting garden, Pixel Grove located in the Pixel Hollow Neighborhood! This magical space is a true work of art, filled with charm and wonder. As the runner-up, Susanszy will take home a moss-covered Secret Garden Fence designed by Susie_Q. Check out the slideshow below for photos of Pixel Grove.
A huge thank you to all our Spring Garden Contest participants! Each garden was a delight, and we encourage everyone to take a tour and admire the stunning display of flowers and foliage. Every gardener who entered the contest received a Festive Colorful Lantern gift for participating.
You can embark on a self-guided tour of the participating 2025 Spring Garden Contest entries. Just click on the garden links for a teleport destination.
Brat’s Place by UrChristianBrat
Fantasy Garden by SassyDancer
Salem’s Hollow by ___Jess
Whispering Dreams by DecemberDreams
CCR Garden by CCR_Gina
Z’s Starry Mahalo Aloha Hale by ZiBaAnNa
MaryHelen’s Garden by MaryHelen
Ladybug House by Ladybug12312
Troll Garden by Jamt
Junkyard by HoodAvie
Fifi Lost and Not Found by Mademoisellefifi
The 2025 Spring Garden Contest is a Pixel Petal & Plant Festival event in the virtual world There.com.
2025 Spring Garden Contest
All residents of There.com are invited to participate in the Spring Garden Contest to showcase their gardening skills. Members who enter the contest will design, build and create a virtual garden experience for the Thereian community to explore. Gardeners are welcome to use their imagination and creativity to plant all types of gardens. Build your garden from scratch or work on adding the final touches to an existing garden. Explore the garden Auctions to search for this season’s newest garden designs and a nursery of virtual flowers, plants, shrubs, trees and more to plant with.
Design a vibrant flower garden with an assortment of colorful blooms such as roses, tulips, daisies and sunflowers. Include decorative elements like garden benches, bird baths and statues to add ambiance.
Transform your virtual space into a lush jungle paradise with towering palm trees, dense foliage and exotic flowers. Integrate water features like waterfalls, ponds and lily pads. Populate the jungle with wildlife like monkeys, parrots and butterflies to bring the virtual environment to life.
Construct a tranquil rock garden featuring a variety of ornamental rocks and boulders. Introduce elements like Japanese lanterns, bamboo or bonsai trees for a Zen like aesthetic.
Whether you choose to cultivate a victory garden, tulip field, hemp farm or alternative crystal garden, let your imagination flourish and showcase your gardening skills in the There.com Spring Garden Contest!
Plant your garden on a small plot of land or over a sprawling estate, all are welcome to participate. Enter your garden into the contest for a chance at winning the Garden Grand Prize or the runner up prize for Green Thumb Gardner. To enter, simply plant your garden in the virtual world There.com and email the subject line “Garden Contest” to feedback@thereinc.com. Include your Avatar name and a link or the doid to your garden in your email entry. The garden submission deadline is Saturday, March 29th at 6:00 pm Pacific. As a token of appreciation, every participating gardener will receive a special garden gift and will be sent an entry confirmation email.
The Garden Grand Prize and the Green Thumb Gardener Prize will be determined by luck of the draw. Garden entries will be assigned a number in order of when their garden entry email was received. Once all of the contest applications have been received, a winning number will be chosen from a random number generator. The winner of the grand prize will receive a month of free rent plus a special garden gift. The runner up winner will receive bragging rights and a special garden gift.
Best of luck to all of our garden participants! The Spring Garden Contest is a Pixel Petal & Plant Festival event happening March 19th through March 31st.
Farewell Botanical Gardens
The Botanical Society of There established a one-of-a-kind Botanical Garden Neighborhood in the Virtual World There.com representing the majority of flora and fauna created by Designers. Charlie__BST and Susanszy restored and maintained the lush and beautiful Botanical Gardens Neighborhood for many years for all Thereians to enjoy. The master gardeners have been able to extend the life of the garden over the years through generous donations. The unique Botanical Gardens have reached the end of life.
Many of the individual types of flora and fauna in the Botanical Gardens were created by Designers who no longer participate in the Developer Program and have not recently relisted their items in Auctions. As a tribute to the Botanical Society of There, you’ll find the View Decor link for each garden type planted in the Botanical Gardens listed below. View Decor shows a catalog of each type of flora and fauna used in each individual garden.
BST Mangrove Swamp – View Decor
BST Ash & Beech Forest – View Decor
BST Christmas Trees – View Decor
BST Desert – View Decor
BST Enchanted Woods – View Decor
BST Evergreens – View Decor
BST Farming – View Decor
BST Forest – View Decor
BST Greenhouse – View Decor
BST Lighthouse – View Decor
BST Manor Charlie’s Home – View Decor
BST Maple Trees – View Decor
BST Mediterranean – View Decor
BST Oak Forest – View Decor
BST Plaza – View Decor
BST Rock Garden – View Decor
BST Rose Garden – View Decor
BST Therehenge – View Decor
BST Vineyard – View Decor
BST Windmill – View Decor
BST Water’s Edge – View Decor
Dave’s Australian Forest – View Decor
BST Water Garden – View Decor
Botanical Gardens Neighborhood – View Decor
View the Botanical Gardens photo album on Facebook.
Spring Garden Contest
The Spring Garden Festival is in full bloom in the virtual world There.com. We invite all Thereians who plant a garden this year to enter the 2020 Spring Garden Contest. We have a special garden gift for all participating gardeners and there will be a garden grand prize for a lucky dice-roll winner.
Gardens come in all shapes and sizes. Any size Lot, PAZ or Neighborhood is welcome to enter the Spring Garden Contest. To enter the contest, plant your virtual garden in There and then email the subject line “Garden Contest” to feedback@thereinc.com and include your Avatar name along with a link to your garden. Participants have until Sunday, May 17th at 6:00 PM Pacific to submit their garden entries. A special garden gift and entry confirmation email will be sent to all gardeners.
On Tuesday, May 19th dress in your finest fashion for a fancy Garden Tea Party celebrating the Spring Garden Contest winner. A dice-roll will be held at the beginning of the event for all gardeners who participated the contest. The gardener with the highest number rolled will win the garden grand prize. After the dice-roll and tea time, we will embark on a tour of the garden entries. Sign up for the Garden Tea party starting at 5:00 PM Pacific on May 19th. Gardeners must be present at the dice-roll for a chance to win the grand prize.
If you have not planted your virtual garden in There yet, search Garden Auctions for items like flowers, plants and trees to get an idea of what kind of garden you’d be interested in growing. Designers are adding new flora and gardening tools every week during the Spring Garden Festival.
As an additional bonus for submitting an entry to the Spring Garden Contest, the Garden Committee will be keeping an eye out for special themed gardens. If your garden entry is one of the Spring Garden Festival weekly themes you may be awarded a special garden trophy by the Garden Committee. There will be a different garden theme for each week in the month of May during the festival. Week one will feature flower gardens. Trees, forests and jungles will take the spotlight for the second week. Vegetable gardens will be celebrated in week three and the last week of May will feature fruit, orchards and vineyards.
Gardening in the real-world can be an outlet for people stuck at home during the COVID-19 crisis. For those folks who cannot escape outside and dig their hands in the earth, the virtual world There offers a place for people to garden, relax and take their mind off things. Join us during the Spring Garden Festival in the month of May to celebrate virtual gardens in There.
Spring Garden Festival
April showers bring May flowers. During the month of May, the Thereian community will celebrate virtual gardening. Grow your own flowers, ferns, vineyards, fruit orchards and victory gardens in There.com during the Spring Garden Festival.
Enjoy garden tours, a fashion show, games, quests, a decorating contest, real-world gardening education and more. Win spring prizes at some of the different garden parties and events throughout the month of May.
The community will be growing all different types of gardens in There during the Spring Garden Festival. Weekly garden themes will start on Friday, May 1st. Week one will feature flowers and ferns. Trees, forests and jungles will take the spotlight for week two. Victory gardens are making a comeback and will be celebrated in week three. The fourth and final week will be dedicated to fruit, orchards and vineyards.
You can plant your virtual garden almost anywhere in There. If you are looking for dirt to till, there are plots of land available to cultivate at the There Community Garden. All new tenants who plant a garden during the month of May will be entered into a dice roll for one month worth of free rent in the Community Gardens. Join the There Community Gardens Club to rent a virtual garden plot.
Keep an eye out for upcoming details about the Spring Garden Decorating Contest in There during the month of May. All gardeners will receive a garden gift for participating in the decorating contest and four themed gardens will earn a special 2020 Spring Garden Contest trophy.
You don’t have to have an actual green thumb to grow a garden in the Virtual World There. Vegetation magically exists without water and thrives from round the clock artificial sunlight. Search the Auctions for the latest garden goods and plant your own virtual garden in There.
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