PPA Symposium Awards 2025

2025 Landscape Design Award Recipients Announced at the PPA National Symposium

During the Perennial Plant Association’s (PPA) 2025 National Symposium hosted in Des Moines, Iowa fifteen Landscape Design companies were recognized for their exceptional projects. The entries  comprise eight categories based on residential, commercial, educational, temporary/seasonal designs,  

and price of production. The design may be a single project or a section of a larger project. The focus  must be on perennials but may include other plants. Six of the eight entry categories are defined by the  wholesale cost of the project and two are for specialty garden designs. 

Initiated in 1992, the Landscape Design Awards program recognizes design projects that are exemplary  in use of herbaceous perennials to help create balanced and beautiful landscapes. The “after-market”  applications of our growers’ products and the design, installation, and maintenance of plants in gardens  and natural settings are of special interest to the Perennial Plant Association. Both experienced and  novice designers were invited to participate.  

Each year, judges evaluate many outstanding landscape designs and select the most excellent  entries based on the effectiveness of herbaceous perennial plant material used through the  implantations of new cultivars, color combinations, textures, and seasonal combinations. PPA Regional  Board Member and Master of Ceremony for the 2025 Landscape Design Awards, Scott Hokunson,  shared his thoughts on this year’s project submissions saying, “PPA is proud to announce the 2025  Landscape Design Award competition winners! Entries this year displayed wonderful creativity with plant  combinations, problem solving, seasonal interest, and contemporary design styles. We are especially  pleased with an increase in international entries this year, evidence of a growing passion for the use of  perennials in landscape design!” 

Once again, the Perennial Plant Association received an exceptional amount of project entries for the  judging committee to evaluate, diversely spread over all entry categories. Award recipients received  either an Award of Merit or Award of Excellence, which is the highest landscape design award. 

This year’s recipients included:  

Class I: Residential Less than $25,000 

Award of Excellence: Reynolds Road Meadow, Andrew Marrs Garden Design

Class II: Residential $25,000 to $100,000 

Award of Excellence: Front Yard Meadow, Indigenous Ingenuities 

Award of Merit: Macalester Raingardens, Carolyn Johnson, Field Outdoor Spaces, Inc Award of Merit: Edgy Woodland Wonderland, Stefano Marinaz Landscape Architecture 

Class III: Residential More than $100,000 

Award of Excellence: Ardrossan Farm, Donald Pell Gardens 

Award of Merit: The Mosaic, CLINTON+RIES Landscape Architects 

Award of Merit: Sky Garden, Fox Whyte Landscape Architecture & Design Inc. 

Class IV: Commercial Less than $25,000 

Award of Merit: Green Infrastructure Garden at Hoffman Nursery, Preston Montague 

Class V: Commercial $25,000 to $100,000 

Award of Excellence: Herbaceous High Street, Melissa Homer / Refugia Design 

Class VI: Commercial More than $100,000 

Award of Excellence: Chapman Stables, CLINTON+RIES Landscape Architects Award of Merit: The Harkin Institute, Kelly D. Norris, LLC 

Class VII: Public Horticulture 

Award of Merit: New Hope Gardens, Radovan Hajek, US Perennials and New Hope  Volunteers 

Award of Merit: Chapel Meadow at Green-Wood Cemetery, LWLA 

Class VIII: Temporary 

Award of Excellence: DIOR Cruise 2025, Drummond Castle, Nicola Semple and Susan Begg,  Semple Begg 

Award of Merit: "Era of Adaptation: Chic Sustainability", Shireen Zia, CPLD EcoGardens  Landscape Design, LLC 

The Perennial Plant Association extends a huge congratulations to these 2025 award recipients! To learn  more about the PPA Landscape Design Awards program and view more details, including photos, about  each awarded project, please visit: https://perennialplant.org/page/2025LDAWINNERS 

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

The Perennial Plant Association is a trade association composed of growers, retailers, landscape  designers and contractors, educators, and others that are professionally involved in the herbaceous  perennial industry. With a mission to connect professionals, provide education and promote perennial  plants, the association has served the horticultural industry since 1984.  

For more information visit www.perennialplant.org.