GAINESVILLE, Ga. — The Urban Ag Council has awarded The Fockele Garden Co. a Judges Choice Award and a Grand Award for its design and installation of Anne’s Garden at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center.
The Fockele Garden Co. received the honors at the UAC’s 2011 Professional Landscape Awards Banquet in Atlanta.
The Judges Choice Award is given to recipients of Grand Awards when the judges are exceptionally impressed by a project’s design and beauty. Judges praised the garden in their comments calling it, “very nice, well designed, pathways draw you in, creative use of textures, sustainable, beautiful.”
The Fockele Garden Co. partnered with The Medical Center Foundation on the project, which was made possible by longtime NGMC supporters and Foundation donors, Anne and George Thomas of Gainesville.
The garden is serene and offers all a place of hope and healing, which was Anne Thomas’ vision. As a therapeutic garden, visitors can experience peace, restoration and reflection. Large numbers of hospital staff, visitors, and patients are drawn to the soothing atmosphere, the sounds of water, “Elpida” the Angel of Hope sculpture, and the colorful and interesting plantings.
The Fockele Garden Co. earlier earned a Grand Award from PLANET for Anne’s Garden.