There is still time to enter the 2009 Nature Hills Nursery Green America Awards competition for community and public gardens.

Groups and organizations that are “greening” their communities, parks, schools and public spaces--by planting trees, shrubs and other plants--are eligible.

The Grand Prize winning garden project will receive $2,500 in plants from Nature Hills Nursery, while the First Prize and Second Prize winners will receive plants worth $1,500 and $1,000, respectively.

The plants can be any combination of trees, fruit trees, bushes and shrubs, perennials and vegetable seeds that Nature Hills Nursery offers.

 Applications for the 2009 Nature Hills Nursery Green America Awards will be accepted until April 1.

Winners will be announced on April 17, 2009.

To apply, go to Green America Awards.