On the QT | The Official Newsletter of GWA April-May 2016 | Page 19

AHS honors Jeff Lowenfels
and Bill Thomas

Two GWA members are among 14 recipients of the American Horticultural Society’s 2016 Great American Gardeners Awards. Former GWA
President and founder of Plant A Row (PAR) Jeff Lowenfels
(Top) of Anchorage, Alaska received the B.Y. Morrison Communication Award, and R. William Thomas of Chanticleer in
Wayne, Pennsylvania, received the Professional Award.

AHS honors five
horticulture books
of 2015
Bill Thomas and the gardeners at Chanticleer have
received one of five annual
American Horticultural Society
Book Awards for The Art of
Gardening, published in 2015
by Timber Press.

Individuals, organizations, and companies that receive these
awards represent the best in American gardening and horticulture. Each has contributed significantly to fields such as plant
research, garden communication, landscape design, youth
gardening, floral design and teaching.
Lowenfels’ award recognizes effective and inspirational communication that advances public interest and participation in
horticulture, through print, radio, television or online media.
The Professional Award recognizes Thomas as a public garden administrator whose achievements during the course of his career have cultivated
widespread interest in horticulture.
The American Horticultural Society will honor award recipients during the Great
American Gardeners Awards Ceremony and Banquet on Thursday, June 2, 2016
at the Society’s national headquarters at River Farm in Alexandria, Virginia. For
more information, please visit http://www.ahs.org/awards.

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Jack Staub (author), Rob Cardillo
(photographer)
Private Gardens of South Florida
Gibbs and Smith
256 pages, 340 photographs, $50
Published March 6, 2016

tion and a 2-mile nature trail
beckon student and plant
lover alike. The story of how
this landscape evolved into a
park-like campus is accompanied by images spanning
150 years and focuses on
the 200-acre Arboretum’s

Escape to 22 lush garden
retr