BC Landscape Awards of Excellence Winners – 2010 Season
The BC Landscape & Nursery Association began the BC Landscape Awards of Excellence in 1981 to celebrate outstanding workmanship by this province’s landscape professionals.
In late summer each year, landscape installation, maintenance and design firms submit their best projects of the season to be evaluated against rigorous criteria by seven highly accredited judges. Judges are chosen from various sectors of the horticulture industry including municipal or public gardens, nurseries, landscape companies, landscape architecture firms, educational institutions, garden communications, or garden centres; the judging panel changes each year.
Winners are announced each autumn, and the best of the best are submitted to compete in the National Awards of Landscape Excellence the following year.
Landscape professionals should visit BCLNA’s trade site for information about entering.
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Unique or Special Feature This bold, custom-designed concrete fire bowl sits in the exterior atrium of a contemporary home, wrapped on three sides by windows. |
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Single Family Residential Maintenance A natural, Whister-area property, this garden is lovingly maintained on a small budget for colour throughout the seasons and protection from winter’s snowpack. |
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Single Family Residential Maintenance This park-like property has numerous immaculately maintained secret gardens, and the forest’s edge meets waterfalls, ponds, paths and streams kept crystal-clear and running by the company. *Submitted to National Awards of Landscape Excellence, 2012 presentation. |
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Multi-Unit Residential Maintenance The maintenance of this property is complicated by a series of upper rooftop decks that require multiple extension ladders and fall protection. Despite the challenges, Para Space meticulously maintains all aspects and advises on irrigation, upgrades, and plant health. *Submitted to National Awards of Landscape Excellence, 2012 presentation. |
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Multi-Unit Residential Maintenance A mature, mountainside strata property, this landscape is comprehensively managed. It receives high-end, detail and service oriented maintenance tailored to the needs and desires of the residents who enjoy gardening on occasion. *Submitted to National Awards of Landscape Excellence, 2012 presentation. |
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Single Family Residential Installation To create more privacy, dense, multi-layered plantings were installed in this garden. A walk-through arbour draped in clematis and hanging baskets serve as a welcoming entry point to an inner courtyard. |
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Single Family Residential Installation This garden was born through contemplation of the spiral form. Precision planting by the Down to Earth team and superlative masonry was key. Custom gates, quadripods and an arbour set a classic overtone. *Submitted to National Awards of Landscape Excellence, 2012 presentation.
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Single Family Residential Installation Stone walls, designed to look as though they had been present for centuries, give a timeless ambience to this property. A fire-pit, glass table, and guest seating offer conversation areas set against stunning plantings.
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Single Family Residential Installation This waterfront location presented a great logistical challenge as materials and equipment to correct stability and drainage problems had to be transported by water. A mix of evergreen hedging, perennial and broadleaf evergreen plantings and landscape lighting now enhances the use of the space.
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Single Family Residential Installation This uniquely situated property is bordered by Cypress Creek and reaches down to the ocean. Great care was taken to protect the root zone of the magnificent, eighty year old oak sitting oceanside in a vast expanse of lawn. 7,000 and 8,000 pound Omorikas screen the view to the east neighbour. |
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Single Family Residential Installation A corner lot fronting a busy street, the goal of this design was to create privacy while blurring the interface between indoors and outdoors. By creating different levels for the outdoor lounge and barbecue area, the dining terrace, lawn, playgrounds and hot-tub, the space became a series of rooms with plant material creating the walls. *Submitted to National Awards of Landscape Excellence, 2012 presentation. |
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Single Family Residential Installation After three months of demolition work to remove the original landscaping and swimming pool, a 65-foot long infinity pool and regulation bocce court were installed as focal points to the multi-level garden. A lavish entertaining space also showcases the homeowners’ sculpture collection. *Submitted to National Awards of Landscape Excellence, 2012 presentation. |
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Single Family Residential Installation A dysfunctional piece of property with grading issues was transformed into dramatic outdoor living and entertaining spaces. Unique elements include a curved outdoor kitchen, granite bar, ozone spa and waterfall, basalt fire-pit, automated sound and lighting system, and a three-hole putting green with white sand trap. |
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| Standard Sponsors | Abbotsford Concrete Products | Cedar Rim Nursery Ltd. | Denbow | Fraser Richmond Soil & Fibre Ltd. | GardenWise Magazine | Echo Power Equipment Canada | Stihl Canada | TerraLink Horticulture Inc. | Waterscene | ||
