We received more than 80 entries in the adult, professional and children's divisions of our annual gingerbread competiton. Once again, our judges were floored by the ingenuity, craftsmanship, creativity, and sheer nerve it took to imagine and produce these beauties. These images only give a taste — pun intended! — of the magic that lies in store for visitors to this year's WinterShow. Congratulations to all the winners, who received gift certificates to use in our wonderful Garden Store.

Special thanks to judges Jennifer Coleman Fluker, Edward Kasper, and Ivan Sheehan.

Please check our website again in July, when we will once again post a call for entries for the 2010 competition.

	Adult Division
1ST PLACE John Lerner “Carson House Eureka, CA”	2ND PLACE Joanne vanLunteren “Dorchester Village”	3RD PLACE Greg Seifert “Treehouse Fun”

	Professional Division
1ST PLACE The Ritz-Carlton Courtney Bonning and Elka Kanuk “The Kids’ Playroom”	2ND PLACE Grateful Dog Bakery Nancy Winrod “Have a Doggone Great Christmas”	3RD PLACE The Viking Store Ellen Flasgraf, Adam Wilson,  Bridget Thibault & Pat Mugridge “Home Sweet Fish Home”

	Children's Division
1ST PLACE Julie and Bill Byrd “A Snow-covered Dream”	2ND PLACE Polly Mecaskey “A Train Station Christmas”	3RD PLACE Anna, Maxwell, Nicholas and Wilson Sattele “Sugar Cone Castle”