Ugly Yard? Win A $10,000 Landscape Makeover In The Bayer Advanced™ Ultimate Yard Makeover Sweepstakes

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., May 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Take a look at your yard. Does it look tired, rundown or downright ugly? Are you seeing flashbacks from the 1970s? If so, it's probably time for a landscape makeover and Bayer Advanced™ wants to help.

All you have to do is enter the Bayer Advanced Ultimate Yard Makeover sweepstakes at Facebook.com/BayerAdvanced for your chance to win. Click on the sweepstakes tab, fill out the entry form and agree to the rules. Limit one entry per person per day. You have until June 30, 2011, to enter.

One randomly selected grand prize winner will be notified by July 14, 2011, (subject to satisfaction of eligibility requirements) and receive a $10,000 Ultimate Yard Makeover. You'll get to meet with a local landscape designer and Bayer Advanced Lawn and Garden Expert Lance Walheim, a horticulturalist and co-author of Landscaping For Dummies and many other gardening books. The three of you will take a look at your yard and discuss new design ideas. Then sit back and watch your yard be transformed into a thing of beauty.

"The sweepstakes winner will receive a beautiful landscape," said Walheim. "But, anyone can keep their landscape looking great by creating their own personal wellness program to protect their lawn, garden and trees."

You can do that by looking to Bayer Advanced as your resource for ways to protect and improve your lawn and garden. There are a lot of how-to videos and helpful tips available here:

www.BayerAdvanced.com
www.Facebook.com/BayerAdvanced
www.Twitter.com/BayerAdvanced
www.YouTube.com/BayerAdvanced

About Bayer Advanced™

Bayer Advanced is one of the leading consumer lawn and garden brands in the United States. Driven by innovative thinking and category-leading research, Bayer Advanced provides innovative and effective solutions that help consumers grow beautiful lawns and gardens and protect their landscapes from pests, weeds and diseases. Always read and follow label directions before using Bayer Advanced products. Visit www.BayerAdvanced.com for more information and to view how-to videos, or call 1-877-BAYERAG.

Bayer Advanced is a business group of Bayer CropScience LP (www.BayerCropScience.us), the U.S. affiliate of Bayer CropScience AG. Bayer Advanced, Bayer CropScience LP, and Bayer CropScience AG are part of the Bayer AG family, a FORTUNE Global 500 company.

About Bayer CropScience

Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials. Bayer CropScience, a subgroup of Bayer AG with annual sales of EUR 6.830 billion (2010), is one of the world's leading innovative crop science companies in the areas of crop protection, non-agricultural pest control, seeds and traits. The company offers an outstanding range of products and extensive service backup for modern, sustainable agriculture and for non-agricultural applications. Bayer CropScience has a global workforce of 20,700 and is represented in more than 120 countries. This and further news is available at: www.press.bayercropscience.com.

SOURCE Bayer Advanced