Help us design everyone's favorite T-shirt! We need your creative ideas to craft the design and message of the 2025 edition of the Proven Winners Certified T-shirt. If your design is chosen, you'll win $1,000 to put towards your Connect+^® enrollment at the Elite or Enhanced level or to spend on Gardener's Idea Books or POP signage. Join in the fun today! 

About the designer

Kit Banks thought, "You can't win if you don't try!" when she heard about the Proven Winners T-shirt design contest and decided to feature some of our best-known varieties in her submission.

"I really like the idea of having all of the claim to fames like Supertunia and Beautyberry, and things like that," she says. "I wanted to include the plants on the shirt because a lot of shirts are just words or sayings. I like the idea of having the plants speak for themselves."

Kit Banks
Marketing Director
Pender Pines Garden Center

Contest Rules

Contest Prizes

1. Once all T-shirt designs have been compiled, Proven Winners will narrow the designs down to the top 10. We will then ask our IGC network to vote for their favorite design.
   
   
2. The winning design will be selected on or before September 15th. The winner will receive $1,000 to be used for the purchase of POP signage for their garden center through ProvenWinners.com, the purchase of Gardener’s Idea Books, or a CONNECT+ enrollment at the Enhanced or Elite tier. This $1,000 cannot be used for the purchase of apparel, additional certified shirts or any Proven Winners branded hard goods.

Thank you for your interest in the 2025 Proven Winners^® Certified Garden Center T-shirt design contest! Please read the submission guidelines and rules below before submitting your entry:

Any Independent Garden Center owner and/or their employees are eligible to submit a design.

The Proven Winners T-shirt Design Contest (the "Contest"), is open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, and legal residents of Canada who are at least 18 years old at the time of entry. Employees of Proven Winners and other companies associated with the promotion of the Contest, and their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates and advertising and promotion agencies, as well as the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and children) and household members of each such employee are not eligible. The Contest is subject to federal, state, and local laws and regulations.

Entry Guidelines

• All designs must include the Proven Winners logo on the front and back of the T-shirt.
• The front and back designs will be printed only in white.
• The front design should be approximately 4” W x 3” H and placed on the top left of the shirt.
• The back design should be approximately 14” W x 14” H.
• Keep your design clean! Remember, many eyes see these shirts at garden centers daily.
• The design cannot include any trademarked or registered sayings, slogans, art or other components.

Intellectual Property Rights

• All entrants affirm their submissions are their own original work and have not been copied from others or from previous designs, including their own, and do not violate the intellectual property rights of any other person or entity.
• All entries will become the sole property of Proven Winners and may be used for any purposes, including but not limited to display on websites, business cards, letterheads, posters and other materials.
• Proven Winners shall have the right to adapt, edit, modify or otherwise use the winning submission in part or in its entirety in whatever manner it deems appropriate.
• Proven Winners reserves the right to use all entries for promotional or business purposes in the future.
• Proven Winners will select the top five designs which will then be voted on by the IGC network to choose the final winner.
• The winner will receive 5 T-shirts in sizes of their choosing.
• The winner will receive $1,000 to be used for the purchase of POP signage for their garden center through ProvenWinners.com, the purchase of Gardener’s Idea Books, or a CONNECT+ enrollment at the Enhanced or Elite tier. This $1,000 cannot be used for the purchase of apparel, additional certified shirts or any Proven Winners branded hard goods.