During the Perennial Plant Association’s 2020 virtual Annual Meeting, three landscape design companies were recognized for their exemplary projects. The entries comprise 11 categories based on residential, commercial, educational, temporary/seasonal designs and price of production.
Initiated in 1992, the Landscape Design Awards program recognizes design projects that are exemplary in use of herbaceous perennials to help create balanced and beautiful landscapes. The “after market” applications of the growers’ products and the design, installation, and maintenance of plants in gardens and natural settings are also of special interest to the Perennial Plant Association. Both experienced and novice designers were invited to participate.
Each year, judges evaluate the landscape designs and select the best entries based on the effectiveness of herbaceous perennial plant material used through the implementation of new cultivars, color combinations, textures, and seasonal combinations.
This year’s recipients include:
Campion Hruby Landscape Architects received two Honor Awards for their Children’s Garden at Hospice of the Chespeake project and Skywater project. They also received a Merit Award for their Tudor House project. Per the PPA press release:
The judges felt the Children’s Garden at Hospice of the Chespeake was a truly impactful project. Done with a shoestring budget and generous donations from the local landscape industry, the Children’s Garden is designed to “create a sanctuary of healing, reflection, and sharing for families that were suffering unthinkable pain.”
The team “loved the idea of a highly modern structure set into a wild, unruly landscape” for the Skywater project and the landscape architects were able to “influence how position and rotation to take advantage of waterfront views, avoid damaging existing trees, and minimize grading.”
The Tudor House project featured an urban property where the landscape architects included “large swaths of native shrubs and colorful perennials [that] drift through the garden, pulling together new and old spaces.”
Tony Spencer: The New Perennialist received an Honor Award for The New Perennial Pond Garden project. This project was designed in 2016 and “is a local Canadian expression of the New Perennial movement in naturalistic planting design, whose ethos is about making gardens in symbiosis with nature.”
Richard Hartlage & Garrett Devier with Land Morphology (pictured above) received a Honor Award for their Creekside Contemporary Residence project. This project transformed a former horse pasture into a 5.6 acre garden that “offers a series of garden rooms programmed for family-oriented activities.”