Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show/podcast: AAS Landscape Design winners 2022
I have often talked about All-America Selections. They are an independent non-profit organization that tests new, never-before-sold varieties of edibles, annuals and perennials for the home gardener.
AAS also has a landscape design challenge each year for their Display Gardens around the country. This year’s theme was Games in the Garden.
For the challenge, AAS provides the gardens with recent AAS Winner seeds and plants. The gardens have the option to incorporate older AAS Winners in their design to illustrate the theme. This year’s first place winner for the category of over 100,000 visitors to their gardens, hails from Hales Corner, Wisconsin. Boerner Botanical Gardens won top prize for their vision.
They chose Dominoes to start, creating them using old cabinet doors, painting them, drilling holes and placing a single plant of Zinnia Profusion Red/Yellow Bicolor in them. Other games were a chess board made by using Gypsophila Gypsy White and Dianthus Ideal Violet.
Other games with plants included Pokémon balls, a Jenga stack, Monopoly board pieces, Scrabble tiles and a Game of Life Spinner to finish off the games collection.
A total of 36 different AAS Winners were showcased within the games and beds. There are 27 winners in multiple categories and all of them are pretty cool. I will say some of the photos are better than others, but take a look at them all.
South Dakota’s McCory Gardens received Honorable Mention
From Ontario to Mississippi and more, you’ll find some interesting gardens and perhaps some inspiration too. I’ll be talking about 2023 AAS winners coming up. In the meantime enjoy this beauty.
Leucanthemum Carpet Angel®
