Awards – The West Virginia Nursery and Landscaping Association

We were pleased to welcome our 2025 scholarship recipients to our Winter Symposium on Feb. 11 in Charleston. Students traveled to Charleston and were recognized at the luncheon. Five Marcus Rennix scholarships in the amount of $5,000 were awarded each to Horticulture, Landscape Architecture and other green industry students attending WVU. To qualify, these students […]

West Virginia Nursery & Landscape Association Announces$12,500 in Scholarship Awards for Five College Students The board members of WVNLA were pleased to select five scholarship recipients who will receive $2,500 each through the Marcus W. Rennix Memorial Scholarship program. The students — all attending West Virginia University (WVU) — were recognized at the association’s February […]

We congratulate Stephen Saunders of Saunders Lawn Care in Huntington on his award of WVNLA Person of the Year 2024. His award reads: “On the occasion of his leadership in the installation of a Natural Learning Environment at the Cabell-Wayne Association of the Blind, Steve Saunders has been named Outstanding Person of the Year on […]

Nationally recognized garden

The Smithsonian Institution’s Archive of American Gardens recently selected a Charleston garden designed by Lynne Schwartz-Barker for inclusion in its Garden Club of America archive. The project involved Lynne and her husband and Flowerscape co-owner Jerry Barker, their son Eamon Barker and business partner Chris Awaldt. Read all about the garden at the Sunday Gazette-Mail.

2012 Awards

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 […]

2010 Awards Program & Winners

The WVNLA Awards Program was established to recognize outstanding performance and business practice in the green industry from a WVNLA member. Judges for the 2010 program were Carter Giltanan, Charleston (noted gardening expert), Traci Bradley (University of Charleston’s Interior Design Program), and Joe Young (Landscape Architect with Triad Engineering, Charleston). Judging criteria was based on […]