On the QT | The Official Newsletter of GWA February-March 2016 | Page 6

Get your awards entries ready DEB WILEY GWA Awards Committee Chair Jacqueline Soule and the staff are busily preparing the entry process for the 2016 Garden Media Awards given for creative works completed during calendar year 2015. HOTOFF the press The entry process is online and opens Feb. 10 and closes April 10, 2016. Review your work published and copyrighted between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2015 to enter. GWA members and non-members may enter, but members receive a discounted fee for submissions. Early-bird entries (before March 10) receive a $25 discount. Detailed information will be coming soon – check your email. Silver award winners will be announced in July. Gold awards will be announced on Sept. 19 during the Awards Banquet at the GWA 68th Annual Conference and Expo in Atlanta, Georgia. ••• Pam Penick The Water-Saving Garden Ten Speed Press 240 pages, $19.99 Available February 23 Not Entering? Become a Judge THIN KSTOCK. COM/GOODSHOOT The Water-Saving Garden provides gardeners and homeowners with a diverse If you’re not entering, consider judging. The array of techniques Awards Committee needs experts to review and plentiful entries and provide constructive feedback. “ I loved judging,” she inspiration for Thanks to the online process, judges have says. “It’s a wonderful creating outdoor about a month to review entries for each of the two awards sessions. experience,especially spaces that are so beautiful and “The thing I loved most about judging was reviewing all the works inviting it’s hard to getting to read articles I might never see,” says believe they are author and blogger Dee Nash, one of two judges and different types of water thrifty. in the electronic writing category for 2015. communication from so Including a “In fact, I fell in love with Pacific Horticulture many talented people. directory of 100 magazine, and I subscribed even though for water It made me happy to be plants I live in the middle of the country.” saving gardens across the country, a part of GWA.” Author and blogger Mary Ann Newcomer, a this accessible, judge in the magazine category, felt similarly — Mary Ann Newcomer contemporary guide energized. “I loved judging,” she says. “It’s a is packed with wonderful experience, especially reviewing all information on rainwater the works and different types of communication from so many harvesting, permeable talented people. It made me happy to be a part of GWA.” paving, irrigation, native and Thank you again to the 2015 Garden Media Awards judges: drought-tolerant plants, Mary Ann Newcomer, Tom Fischer, Ethne Clarke, Judy water-evoking illusions and Lowe, Steven Biggs, Doug Jimerson, Dee Nash, Andrew more. Buchanan, Sylvia Martin, Kate Copsey, Joe Lamp’l, Peggy Anne Montgomery and Maree Gaetani. If interested, please contact: Jacqueline Soule, [email protected]. GWA member Deb Wiley is a freelance writer, editor and photographer from Des Moines. 6 ••• Peter Loewer Solving Deer Problems: How to Deerproof Your Yard and Garden Skyhorse Publishing 336 pages, $17.99 Published June 2015 Back in 2003, when the first edition of Solving Deer Problems was released, the usual joke told at garden club dinners included the line, “There are two things that deer will not eat, oleanders and antique brick, and we’re not too sure about the brick.” But so much has happened in the world of deer control that a new edition of Solving Deer Problems was called for. Now, all the editorial material has been updated and new sections added, including the latest in electric fencing, motion-sensor systems to frighten deer from your crops, new and potent inhibitors to attack a deer’s sense of smell and an entire chapter on deer-resistant plants illustrated with color photos of the most noteworthy plants. Peter is the author and illustrator of many gardening books, including The Wild Gardener, named one of the 75 Great Gardening Books of the Twentieth Century by the American Horticultural Society.