Winners of the fifth annual All-America Selections Landscape Design Contest for Display Gardens was announced Oct. 12. Earning honorable mention for “Best Use of a YouTube Video,” was the Backyard Farmer Garden at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
AAS Winners offer gardeners reliable new varieties of flowers and vegetables that have proved their superior garden performance in trial grounds across North America.
The contest was a landscape design competition using AAS Winners announced in the last five years with the option to incorporate more than 80 years worth of past AAS Winners. Each display garden was responsible for creating and executing a design incorporating the yearly theme then generate publicity surrounding the contest.
A broad range of garden types participated in the contest for 2016 — large and small public gardens, seed companies, community gardens, master gardener programs and university gardens.
Gardens were divided into three categories based on the number of visitors per year. Category I: Fewer than 10,000 visitors per year, Category II: 10,001–100,000 visitors per year and Category III: Over 100,000 visitors per year. Backyard Farmer garden received honorable mention in Category I.
See video at http://go.unl.edu/byftimelapse.
To learn more about AAS Winners, go to http://all-americaselections.org/winners. To learn more about the 2016 AAS Landscape Design Contest for Display Gardens, go to http://all-americaselections.org/display_gardens/contest.cfm.
More details at: http://agronomy.unl.edu/news/backyard-farmer-garden-takes-honorable-mention-landscape-design-contest