OHS 2026 Photo Competition: Gallery and People's Choice Voting
VOTING IS NOW OPEN!
This year's theme, "This and That," features a playful mix of popular classes from recent OHS photography competitions, along with a few new twists. Each class was designed to inspire gardeners to put down the weeding hoe, pick up a camera, and capture the beauty of gardens and nature.
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- Voting closes at 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 19.
Need a quick refresher? Click below to download the complete Photo Competition guide, including categories, rules, entry requirements, and other helpful details in PDF format.
Class 1 - Down the Garden Path
Photo of a pathway that entices you to wander into or through a garden. Location: Canada. (7 entries)
Class 1.1_Path to Tranquility
Class 1.2_Winding Through The Colours
Class 1.3_Clematis Jackmanii
Class 1.4_Path in woods on Fisher Ave.
Class 1.5_Path at rock garden at exp. farm
Class 1.6_River bed path
Class 1.7_Rock Garden
Class 2 - Up Close and Personal
Macro or close-up photo of your favourite flower, blossom or foliage in the garden. Location: National Capital area. (22 entries)
Class 2.1_ Beebalm
Class 2.2_Red maple buds in early spring
Class 2.3_Hydrangea Heaven
Class 2.4_Pollinator Magic
Class 2.5_Streptocarpus
Class 2.6 _Phlox paniculata _Peppermint twist
Class 2.7_White peonies in my garden
Class 2.8_Jack in the pulpit
Class 2.9_Baby Sun Rose
Class 2.10_Pickle Plant
Class 2.11__Oscar Peterson_ rose
Class 2.12_Magnolia _Leonard Messel
Class 2.13_Delightful Dahlia
Class 2.14_Sensational Sunflower
Class 2.15_Sweet Stars of Summer (Sambucus canadensis)
Class 2.16_Cottony Charm – Cottongrass
Class 2.17_Martagon lily
Class 2.18_Oriental Poppy
Class 2.19_Lupine
Class 2.20_Passiflora edulis f. edulis
Class 2.21_Morning in the cup plant
Class 2.22_Dahlia
Class 3 - Garden Visitors
Class 3.1_Monarch in Milkweed
Class 3.2_Painted Lady in Zinnias
Class 3.3_Monarch on Liatris scariosia var. nieuwlandii
Class 3.4_Fritillary on Echinacea
Class 3.5_Pretty Monarch
Class 3.6_Camouflaged frog
Class 3.7_Spotted frog in garden
Class 3.8_Dragonfly on Hydrangea
Class 3.9_Bee on Welted Thistle
Class 3.10_Lily and pollinator
Class 3.11_Bumblebee on Bleeding Heart
Class 3.12_Monarch Butterfly on Crimson Zinnia
Class 3.13_Dill Delight by Swallowtail Jr.
Class 3.14_Milkweed Munch by Monarch Jr.
Class 3.15_Evidence (on Redbud)
Class 3.16_Whitetail Dragonfly
Class 3.17_Ladybug hiding in Zinnia
Class 3.18_Monarch on Echinacea
Class 3.19_Monarch on Field Thistle
Class 3.20_Ruby throated hummingbird on Purple Giant Hyssop
Class 3.21_I see you!
Class 3.22_Bee on Echinacea
Class 4 - Aquatopia
Photo depicting water in the garden or in nature, and in which a horticultural element is highlighted. May be a water feature (natural or fabricated), raindrops or dew on a garden flower or foliage, or a reflection on a water surface. Location: Canada. (12 entries)
Class 4.1_Begonia_s Morning Jewels
Class 4.2_Nature_s perfect water lily
Class 4.3_Water drops on Coreopsis verticillata Zagreb
Class 4.4_Water lilies
Class 4.5_Reflections on the Jock River
Class 4.6_Yellow Water Lily
Class 4.7_Water Lily
Class 4.8_Waterfall and pond
Class 4.9_Maple leaves in a water stream
Class 4.10_Rain drops on Spotted geranium
Class 4.11_Water Lily
Class 4.12_Two lilies
Class 5 - Native Beauty
Photo of native plants (perennials, shrubs, wildflowers) in gardens or in nature. Location: National Capital Region/Eastern Great Lakes Ecoregion. (17 entries)
Class 5.1_Ghost Pipe
Class 5.2_Common Milkweed
Class 5.3_Ironweed
Class 5.4_Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
Class 5.5_Asclepias incarnata
Class 5.6_Flowers in bloom
Class 5.8_New England Aster
Class 5.9_Fleabane
Class 5.10_Actaea simplex
Class 5.11_Bolton’s aster
Class 5.12_Beautiful in White Trillium
Class 5.13_Trail’s Hidden Trillium
Class 5.14_Lovely Lady’s Slippers_Cypripedium reginae
Class 5.15_Trillium from a Garden
Class 5.16_Purdon showy lady’s slippers
Class 5.17_Red Trillium
Class 6 - Voluptuous Vistas
A colourful mixed garden bed, cottage garden, mass of blooms, or informal grouping of flowers and shrubs (no people in images please). Location: Canada. (19 entries)
Class 6.1_Colour Blast
Class 6.2_Colours in the rain
Class 6.3_Iris x germanica
Class 6.4_Flowers at the Exp. farm
Class 6.5_Exp. farm
Class 6.6_Full colour
Class 6.7_Cottage Charm
Class 6.10_Redbud in spring
Class 6.11_High Summer Symphony
Class 6.12_Summer_s Abundance
Class 6.13_Salvia and Grasses – Dow_s Lake Gardens
Class 6.14_Sway and Stillness_Grasses and Salvia
Class 6.15_Lupine and Friends
Class 6.16_Lilies
Class 6.17_Painting with lichens
Class 6.18_My Garden
Class 6.19_Autumn Crocus
Class 7 - "O-H-S"
A photo that depicts any one of the letters "O", "H", and "S", horticulturally. Photographer’s choice and interpretation for this challenge. Location: Canada. (6 entries)
Class 7.1_”H” – Hallowe’en
Class 7.2_”S” – Sunset
Class 7.3_ “O” – A Wreath of Kalanchoe
Class 7.4_ “H”- The Impatiens
Class 7.5_”S” – Sprucing up the Backyard
