BC Landscape Awards of Excellence Winners – 2009 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.
Landscape professionals should visit BCLNA’s trade site for information about entering.
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Unique or Special Feature This piece of streetscape was overgrown, and had zero curb appeal. The solution was to create a series of walls and translucent screens that provide a backdrop for striking architectural foliage, and come alive at night with unique silhouettes. |
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Small Space Garden The ambience of a high end rooftop lounge fills this patio space. Custom designed and pre-constructed for light weight, all materials were craned into place. A glowing bar creates a central gathering point; a fire pit cut into the surface of the deck provides warmth and leads your eyes out toward spectacular views. |
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Landscape Maintenance – Single Family Residential This one-acre property is located in the beautiful Pemberton Valley facing Mount Currie. Landscape debris is re-used: leaves are mulched and incorporated into soils; branches are chipped for compost when possible. Only organic based fertilizers are used and when the lawn stresses they dig out weeds as they arise. Natural horsetail area on one side of the property creeps into the beds from time to time, but SoundGarden has learned to embrace it in one area and cultivate it into the soil in another. |
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Landscape Installation – Single Family Residential This L-shaped backyard presented numerous design challenges, being dominated by a two-car garage and surrounding houses on higher ground. A representational creek-bed was constructed with feather-rock. With trees for privacy, and central plantings representative of running water and marginal aquatics, this strong, idealized feature offsets the dominance of the garage. Designed by Geoff Woods. |
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Landscape Installation – Single Family Residential An uncompromising respect for the natural mountain terrain, native grasses and pine trees underscores the landscaping for this residential property in Kamloops. Inspired by their passion for golf, the clients engaged the design team to create a resort-style landscape. As part of its commitment to high landscape standards and environmental sustainability, the company was able to provide lushness this arid climate by introducing xeriscape techniques, an efficient drip irrigation system, plants suitable to the environment, soil amendments and artificial turf. |
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Landscape Installation – Single Family Residential This narrow site featured a 12 foot grade change over 50 feet. The property had no direct access, which meant negotiating an easement through the neighbor’s property to facilitate machine and material portability. The setting and architecture of the house have a Mediterranean feel, which directed the design, material choice and colour scheme. The end result has been successful not only from an aesthetic point of view but also from a functional one, offering spaces for small and large gatherings, and magical places for children to explore and play. |
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Landscape Installation – Single Family Residential A true West Coast resort, this installation assures a gathering of family and friends. A naturalized swimming pool and waterfall, an outdoor kitchen, fire-pit, and a large patio space were incorporated. A dramatic waterfall was designed to cascade down the hill and under a curved viewing bridge before plummeting into the pool below. |
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