Yes, the winner was announced just as I arrived online to write my post. I'd been distracted by stalking bees instead of planting some bee friendly plants, but all is not lost.
On Friday, I was stalking bees in the Botanic Garden, instead of taking cuttings.
I used to have a magnificent buddleia at the back of the house, about 12ft high and covered with blossom, bees and butterflies the whole summer. The only problem was, it had self-seeded and, glorious as buddleias are, they can be straggly devils and take a lot of room.
So mine was about twice the size of this specimen, and twice as unruly.
I decided to trim it one summer, although it was under a lot of competition from invading bamboo, aggressive sycamore saplings and the wobbly hawthorn growing at right angles to the slope of the ground (this tree is known as my hawthorn although it is on my neighbour's land and they have carefully built their garden wall around it).
This is what happened. As dead as mutton as my foster daughter told me. The wild rose is also self-seeded. You can see the devil's spawn bamboo in the background. I did have a crazy idea about planting bits of it in containers and selling them for exorbitant amounts.
My lovely neighbour had already grown a buddleia and had said I could take some cuttings. I had pots, compost, serious scissors and organic rooting compound. What could go wrong?
Serious distraction by all things bees, that's what.
Or even things that are nothing to do with bees but need my immediate and full attention.
But all's well that ends well and finally ...
Just in time to miss the contest, I planted my buddleia cuttIngs.
Don't get me started on the lavender bushes.