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.
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Pam Penick
The Water-Saving Garden
Ten Speed Press
240 pages, $19.99
Available February 23
Not Entering? Become a Judge
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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.
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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.