🌺 2017 Canada Blooms Brings Home the Hardware

Monday, 20 March 2017 01:05.AM
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-Two prestigious awards bestowed upon Canada’s largest garden and floral festival. -

It was an award-winning year for Canada Bloom 2017.

In a year Canada’s largest garden and floral festival was helping celebrate Canada’s sesquicentennial anniversary, it took home two prestigious awards — it was named the Canada 150 Garden Experience Winner by Canadian Garden Council and the Canadian Nursery Landscape Association and won the Garden Festival of the Year Garden Tourism Award at the North American Garden Tourism Conference.

«These awards are a testament to the talent and efforts of the incredible landscape designers and floral artists who make Canada Blooms the incredible gardening festival that it is,» says Terry Caddo, General Manager of Canada Blooms. «Each year we strive to bring the latest and most innovative gardens, flowers and plants. It is an honour to have that recognized.»

The Canada 150 Garden Experience designation is part of the celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday. Across the country, 150 gardens were jury selected to receive a designation as one of 150 ways to celebrate Canada’s birthday year. To view the full list of Canada 150 Garden Experience designation winners, visit Canada’s Garden Route’s website at canadasgardenroute.ca.

But Canada Blooms didn’t just receive the awards – it gave them out as well.

The Tranquility Garden deigned and built by J. Garfield Thompson Landscape from Etobicoke was named the Tony DiGiovanni Garden of the Year, and The Secret Path, designed and built by Genoscape Inc., was the People’s Choice Garden. The People’s Choice Award for Floral Design was won by Julie Drago, Sheryl Koss and Bridgett C. Brown.

Canada Blooms kicked off on March 10th with special awards for its feature gardens. Each was evaluated based on their overall visual impact, quality of the materials used, creativity, innovation, imagination, aesthetic appeal, technical hardscape/constructed aspects, harmony of design elements and detailing, unique use of plant material, organization and completeness, environment (cleanliness, safety, etc.), as well as specific criteria for each individual award. Please see Backgroudner below for a full list of the feature garden winners.

«I am inspired and encouraged by the level of detail and craftsmanship with the imaginative garden designs,» says Tony DiGiovanni, Executive Director of Landscape Ontario Horticultural Trades Association in Milton, Ontario. «The builders expressed their creativity and interpretive, artistic vision of the theme of ‘Oh Canada’, in celebration of Canada’s 150th anniversary. Our talented teams of feature garden builders impress me more each year.»

Co-located with the National Home Show, Canada Blooms took place March 10th to 19th, 2017, at the Enercare Centre at Exhibition Place in Toronto. For more information, please visit canadablooms.com. Follow Canada Blooms on Twitter @CanadaBlooms and Like it on Facebook.

SOURCE: Canada Blooms

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