The 2024 AHS Environmental Award Winners:
Northwest Flower & Garden Festival (February 14-18)
Winner: Captured Nature by GMC Landscapes LLC
The winning exhibit featured a watercourse and a skillful mix of native and ornamental plant material. Spaces between stones and plants appeared as they would in nature, and minimal use of forced color showed a good balance of showmanship and practical horticulture.
Connecticut Flower and Garden Show (February 20-23)
Winner: Landscape #2 by Aqua Scapes of CT, LLC
Owner Robert Townsend was awarded for his naturalistic habitat highlighting aquatic plants in a water feature, surrounded by a diversity of outstanding specimen plants.
Winner: Urban Designs, Inc.
Winner Urban Designs created a 1,000 sq.ft.+ outdoor oasis incorporating native plants, dry riverbed, natural bluestone walk, boulders as accents, and natural wood benches made from fallen timber.
Winner: A Beautiful Disturbance by Kelly D. Norris, LLC
This creative landscape demonstrated potential to “renature” a neglected urban site. It was an inspiration to bring nature back into the human habitat. The Environmental Award for the Philadelphia Flower Show was judged by AHS board chair Scott Plein and AHS board member Holly Shimizu.