How fantastic was last month's #creativegarden challenge? It was lovely to see people remember their 'firsts', often with great tenderness, and there was also some quite funny accounts of being bitten - we certainly learnt never to put your fingers inside a goat's mouth! Thanks to everyone who entered. We tried to get you as much support as we can, including putting four posts forward for the weekly #authorpolls.

If you miss the deadline, don't worry! You can still write on that theme - you just won't be selected as a winner, but will still get a chance for some great upvotes for great garden content!

Did you catch all of these amazing posts? It's not too late to leave a comment - we always appreciate a comment on our posts!

🍅 @owasco wrote about memories of her Aunt and how she began a life long gardening passion here
🍅 @proto26 wrote about a grandmother that started his journey and a love of insects - just not the bitey ones here
🍅 @buckaroobaby's hilarious post instructs on why you should never put your fingers in a goat's mouth here
🍅 We hope you didn't miss a little @fotostef - isn't he cute? Here.

🍅 @umirais wants to grow rambutan trees because it reminds her of her childhood and she wants children to have similiar memories here
🍅 @fantagira writes about her first successful flowering cactus here
🍅 @zekepickleman shows us how lawn becomes garden beds - every year is a chance for improvement here.
🍅 @crosheille wrote about how gardening can be fulll of failures, especially for the first time - but by persisting and being resilient, she sets a good example for her kids and has successes instead of giving up here
🍅 @maytom wrote about their dream of having their own home, and the pleasure of their first garden of their own here
🍅 @aidan.space.bar wrote about the pleasure of a garden - except for when he was bitten here
🍅 @jude9 wrote about his first failures here
🍅 @riverflows talks about her memories of her grandmother, and why she'll always plant parsley in a garden here
🍅 Isnt' it amazing how many grandmothers influence our gardening habits? This is true of vicmito74

The Winner - May Creative Garden Journal Challenge

One of the things we look for (apart from excellent writing) is the post rewards - if you already got some fantastic upvotes for your awesome content, you've already won! So we try to select from the posts that may not have the good rewards but are still great content. We'll also try to get you more love by putting you forth for the #authorpolls on Leo Threads, where the winner gets a great beneficiary! We'll also reblog and upvote you too.

This week there were two winners @fotostef and @buckaroobaby - each recieving 2 HIVE each, with the ultimate winner, @buckaroobaby, being set 75 percent beneficiary of this post. Congratulations!

Please read the following carefully.

This Month's Prompts

Each month we'll supply TWO prompts. Choose one - or hey, you can do both if you like! And don't forget, it doesn't even have to be based on fact - you could write a fictional story or a poem if you like! The trick is to consider the word 'creative'.The prompt is just a jumping off point.

Prompt 1: The tiniest thing in my garden brings me the greatest joy.

Prompt 2: If I was to rule the world, I would make sure everyone had a garden.

Guidelines

• 'Creative' is key! You could even do a freewrite! Imagine writing a political speech, a diary entry, a poem or a legal policy!
• Original photos only - please no more than three.
• Word count should be no more than 1200 words, including any reference to the challenge.
• Tag someone you think might be interested in the challenge if you can.
• Beautifully written posts are favoured - consider description, humour, personal anecdotes, philosophy.
• NO AI written content please. We don't mind grammatical errors and we DO love human content.
• Please reblog and THREAD this post if you can!

You MUST

• Use the tag #creativegarden as your first tag
• Include reference to this challenge post somewhere in your post, preferably at the end.
• Pay attention to the countdown - no entries will be accepted after the due date.

Prize

The winner will recieve 75 percent of the post rewards for this post next month. So please REBLOG and THREAD this post and tell your friends!

Depending on the popularity of this contest, we may offer further prizes! Let us know if there's anything you would add or change - this is YOUR community!

Would you like to be tagged for next month? Let us know in the comments.

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