West Virginia Nursery & Landscape Association presented Landscape Awards in 2012 to members in the following categories:
Residential Design/Build over $10,000
- First Place Winner: Creation Gardens and Design, Lesage, West Virginia – Designer, Janie Carpenter for work on the Ferguson Residence
- Honorable Mentions:
- Scots Landscape Nursery, Vienna, West Virginia for work on the Crooks Residence and
- Flowerscape, Sissonville, West Virginia-
- Designer, Lynne Schwartz-Barker for work on the Jones Residence
Unique Projects
- First Place Winner: Biafore Landscape Development, Morgantown, West Virginia – Designer, Michael Biafore for work on the Shafer Residence
- Second Place: Scots Landscape Nursery, Vienna, West Virginia for work on the Dills Residence
- Honorable Mention: Creation Gardens and Design, Lesage, West Virginia – Designer, Janie Carpenter for work on the Kanawha City Veterinary Hospital
Trade Show Display
- First Place Winner: Creation Gardens and Design, Lesage, West Virginia – Designer, Janie Carpenter for work on the Home and Garden Show in Huntington, West Virginia
Container Gardening
- First Place Winner: Flowerscape, Sissonville, West Virginia- Designer, Lynne Schwartz-Barker for work on the Jones Residence
- Honorable Mention: Biafore Landscape Development, Morgantown, West Virginia – Designer, Michael Biafore for work on the Buzzo Residence
Garden Center Display in West Virginia
- First Place Winner: Groundworks Garden Center, Hinton, West Virginia – Chris and Torula Chanlett-Avery for work on the information signage at the Garden Center.
The Awards Program was established to recognize outstanding performance and business practice in the green industry from a WVNLA member.
Judges for the program were Carter Giltanan, Charleston (noted gardening expert), Tracy Bradley (University of Charleston’s Interior Design Program), and Joseph Byrd, ASLA (Landscape Architect with Chapman Technical Group, Charleston). Judging criteria was based on overall appearance (design quality, principles and appropriateness), degree of difficulty, quality and appearance of materials, and a written narrative describing project scope, difficulty, and other points of interest. Each first place winner received a $1000.00 award except in the areas of Container Gardening and Trade Show Display where each first place winner received $500.00.
