A Holliston firm was one of the winners at the 2013 Boston Flower Garden Show.
Ahronian Landscaping Design Inc. of Holliston and Medway Garden Center, which joined forces on the exhibit entitled “Today’s Living Room,” won the Landscape Design Award I. The Landscape Design Council gives this award for excellence in landscape design of a professional garden exhibit. The exhibitors say their garden featured “a May time period full of fragrant flowering trees, shrubs, perennials, and annuals” and highlighted “gardening with edibles; an outdoor kitchen; a garden room with an outdoor fireplace and waterfall curtains; vertical gardens; a green roof; permeable surfaces; and rain gardens.”
Ahronian Landscaping Design is a custom landscape design-build firm. For more information, visit www.ahronian.com.
Medway Garden Center is a nursery, florist and garden center located in Medway. For more information, visit www.medwaygardens.com.
The Landscape Design Council panel of judges was made up of board members Jana Milbocker of Holliston, Joyce Bakshi of Andover and Mary Bowen Nokes of Lexington.
The Landscape Design Council of Massachusetts was organized in 1963 under the auspices of National Garden Clubs Inc. The council provides landscape-design education through speakers, workshops, and tours of public and private areas, according to a press release. The Massachusetts chapter is the largest in the United States. It provides judges for the Boston Flower Garden Show and presents three landscape-design awards of its own.
Design council members have completed the Landscape Design study program, four 10-hour courses, and passed required examinations, entitling them to become National Garden Clubs-accredited Landscape Design Consultants. Council members promote environmental interests through work on town committees and boards. Members have been responsible for many landscaping projects at municipal buildings and other public areas in their cities and towns. A number have gone on to earn certificates in landscape design or master’s degrees in landscape architecture, and to establish their own businesses.
For more information about the Landscape Design Study Program, contact program Chairman Jane O’Sullivan at 781-659-4423 or jeosullivan@comcast.net. For more information about LDC, contact chairman Joan Butler at 508-429-2739 or joan@bjbsoftware.com.
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