Water-Wise Landscape Contest

Do you love landscaping and creating beautiful, sustainable outdoor spaces? Have you recently planted a water-wise garden or plan to transform your yard soon? We want to see your work!

Enter the LTWD Water-Wise Landscape Contest for a chance to win one of three incredible prizes while making a positive impact on your community. This contest is one of our favorite programs. It’s a fun and rewarding way to celebrate water-wise landscaping and inspire others to do the same.

Why participate? A water-wise yard doesn’t just look great—it comes with big benefits:

  • Save Water: Use less water and help conserve our region’s most precious resource.
  • Lower Your Bill: Reduce your monthly water costs with efficient landscaping.
  • Support Biodiversity: Create a habitat for pollinators like bees, butterflies and hummingbirds.
  • Less Maintenance: Water-wise gardens mean less mowing, watering and upkeep.
  • Win Prizes: Show off your hard work and you could take home cash or a bill credit.

Join the fun, showcase your creativity and help promote a more sustainable community—one yard at a time.

Landscaping Contest Prizes

  • First Place - $250 bill credit plus Landscape Contest Winner Garden Sign
  • Second Place - $125 bill credit plus Landscape Contest Winner Garden Sign
  • Third Place - $75 bill credit plus Landscape Contest Winner Garden Sign

2025 Winning Landscapes

A modern two-story house with a landscaped yard, stone accents, and multiple garage doors, set against a scenic backdrop.
First Place | 2025
The image shows a landscaped garden with various plants, rocks, and gravel pathways, creating a tidy outdoor space.
First Place | 2025
A modern home with a landscaped front yard featuring various plants, rocks, and a tree. The driveway is paved and tidy.
First Place | 2025
A garden scene with colorful flowers, rocks, and a small water feature, plus people walking and interacting nearby.
Second Place | 2025
A vibrant garden with colorful flowers, lush greenery, decorative rocks, and a brick wall backdrop.
Second Place | 2025
A landscaped garden with rocks and colorful flowers, leading to a concrete pathway, in a suburban neighborhood.
Third Place | 2025
A landscaped garden with stone path, flowers, garden beds, and a house in the background at dusk.
First Place | 2024
A garden with vegetables and flowers, including tomatoes and marigolds, in a raised bed, surrounded by trees and a birdhouse.
First Place | 2024
House with a garden featuring a path, mulch, plants, and a tree. A black cat walks along the path.
Second Place | 2024
A well-maintained garden with a paved path, various plants, trees, and mulch surrounding a building.
Second Place | 2024
A garden with plants, mulch, and a trellis, bordered by a fence, countryside in the background.
Third Place | 2024
Two people working in a garden with tools and wheelbarrows, surrounded by a fence and trees, open landscape beyond.
Third Place | 2024
A modern two-story house with a landscaped yard, stone accents, and multiple garage doors, set against a scenic backdrop.
The image shows a landscaped garden with various plants, rocks, and gravel pathways, creating a tidy outdoor space.
A modern home with a landscaped front yard featuring various plants, rocks, and a tree. The driveway is paved and tidy.
A garden scene with colorful flowers, rocks, and a small water feature, plus people walking and interacting nearby.
A vibrant garden with colorful flowers, lush greenery, decorative rocks, and a brick wall backdrop.
A landscaped garden with rocks and colorful flowers, leading to a concrete pathway, in a suburban neighborhood.
A landscaped garden with stone path, flowers, garden beds, and a house in the background at dusk.
A garden with vegetables and flowers, including tomatoes and marigolds, in a raised bed, surrounded by trees and a birdhouse.
House with a garden featuring a path, mulch, plants, and a tree. A black cat walks along the path.
A well-maintained garden with a paved path, various plants, trees, and mulch surrounding a building.
A garden with plants, mulch, and a trellis, bordered by a fence, countryside in the background.
Two people working in a garden with tools and wheelbarrows, surrounded by a fence and trees, open landscape beyond.

    How to Qualify and Enter the Contest

    Please feel free to reach out to LTWD staff to help you determine whether or not your landscape qualifies for our contest!


    To qualify, your landscape must:

    • Be planted before June 15th OR after September 15th OR have been planted previously within the last two year
    • Max two submissions per household but cannot be the same project. We want to encourage front and back yard submissions.
    • Project must be a minimum of 200 square feet
    • Maximum of 50 square feet of rock
    • Prioritize the use of mulch over other ground coverings
    • Prominently feature water-wise plants
    • Utilize a water-efficient irrigation system—such as a spray or drip nozzle or watering can
    • Include three photos of the project, including:
      • The project area before the work
      • The project area after work is completed
      • Water efficient irrigation system, or please note if you're hand-watering
    • Water Features are not permitted

    To enter, fill out the form below or email the entry form (available by request at info@ltwd.org) and three photos to us by October 15, 2026. All participants must also be willing to have their landscapes featured in our
    quarterly newsletter. If you have a green thumb (or have always wanted to give gardening a go), join in on the fun. You’ll help conserve water and win big in the process.

     

     

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