All-America Selections, an independent plant trialing and award program, announced that there are 22 AAS Display Gardens participating in the first-ever AAS Landscape Design Contest.
By participating, these gardens will help All-America Selections celebrate their 80th anniversary by using past and present AAS Winners (both flowers and vegetables if desired) in a creative landscape design located within their gardens. The contest criteria requires that each display have a minimum of 50% of the total landscaped area be AAS Winners and labeled with the variety name and the AAS logo, if possible.
There are three contest categories, based on garden attendance:
Category I: fewer than 10,000 visitors per year
Category II: 10,001 – 100,000 visitors per year
Category III: Over 100,000 visitors per year.
The participating gardens, group by category are:
Category I:
Cutler Botanic Garden, Cornell CES of Broome County in Binghamton, New York
Dyer County Botanical Gardens, Dyer County High School in Newbern, Tennessee
Horticultural Arts Society in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Burden Center Botanic Gardens, LSU Ag Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Meadow View Growers AAS Display Bed in New Carlisle, Ohio
MSU South Mississippi Branch Experiment Station, in Poplarville, Mississippi
NDSU Williston Research Center in Williston, North Dakota
Parker Scripture Botanical Gardens in Oriskany, New York
Rutgers Gardens at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey
Queeny Wedding Garden, St. Louis County Parks in St. Louis, Missouri
William Dam Seeds Trial & Display Gardens in Dundas, Ontario, Canada
Category II:
Agriculture Canada Ornamental Gardens in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Bellevue Park in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Michigan State University Annual Trial Garden in East Lansing, Michigan
Miles C. Hartley Selections Garden, University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois
JC Ralston Arboretum, North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina
Toledo Botanical Garden AAS Vegetable and Flower Garden in Toledo, Ohio
University of Tennessee Gardens in Knoxville, Tennessee
Category III:
Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, Illinois
Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky
Marjorie McNeely Conservatory in St. Paul, Minnesota
Rotary Botanical Gardens in Janesville, Wisconsin
These specially landscaped areas will be on display all summer then judged by an expert panel at the end of the season. Winners in each category will be announced and recognized this coming October. The AAS website will feature many photos of the gardens’ designs at that time.
For more:
http://www.aaswinners.com/Display_Garden_Locations.asp