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PLANET Announces Environmental Improvement Award Winners
14 Oct, 2009 LDB SolutionsThe Professional Landcare Network (PLANET) has announced the recipients of PLANET’s annual 2009 Environmental Improvement Awards. This year marks the program’s 40th anniversary. Of the 134 projects entered in this year’s awards program, 126 were recognized with an award. The awards breakdown includes three Decade Awards, 38 Grand Awards, 46 Merit Awards, and 39 Distinction Awards.
The awards program, which is open to only PLANET members, is designed to reward independent landscape, lawn care, and interior plantscaping professionals who execute superior projects.
“The quality of the submittals was overwhelming in many realms,” says Awards Committee Chair Will Spiegelberg, CLP, Spiegelberg Landscape Design, Inc., Chicago. “The imagination of the designers and architects to bring clients’ dreams to two-dimensional plans, the knowledge of those involved in making the dreams workable, the skill of all those who brought the two-dimensional plan to three-dimensional reality and life, and the care of those who have maintained these dreams after they have become a reality to ensure their well-being.”
The judging panel consisted of Matt Triplett CLP, CLT, CLIA, Willamette Landscape Services, Inc., Tualatin, OR; Louis Kobus, CLP, Fox Run Nurseries, Inc., Alexandria, VA; Aaron R. Williams, CLP, Williams Landscape & Design, Inc., Williamsburg, VA; and Gerald J. Grossi, CTP-CSL, ArborLawn, Inc., Lansing, MI.
Through a special multimedia show, award recipients will be honored at the PLANET Green Industry Conference Awards Presentation and Reception on October 30 at 5 p.m., in Louisville, KY. The Awards Reception is sponsored by Husqvarna.
Decade Award recipients include:
- Lambert Landscape Co., Dallas, TX
- ValleyCrest Landscape Maintenance, Calabasas, CA
Grand Award recipients include:
- Acres Group, Wauconda, IL
- Austin Outdoor, a Yellowstone Landscape Group Co.
- Borst Landscape and Design, Allendale, NJ
- BRICKMAN, Columbia, MD
- Chalet, Wilmette, IL
- Clean Scapes, LP, Austin, TX
- David J. Frank Landscape Contracting, Inc., Germantown, WI
- Dennis’Seven Dees Landscaping, Inc., Portland, OR
- Designs by Sundown, Englewood, CO
- Estate Gardeners, Inc., Elkhorn, NE
- Grant & Power Landscaping, Inc., West Chicago, IL
- Henkel Denmark, Lexington, KY
- James Martin Associates, Inc., Vernon Hills, IL
- John Mini Distinctive Landscapes, Congers, NY
- Mariani Landscape, Lake Bluff, IL
- Plantscaping, Inc., Cleveland, OH
- Puryear Farms, Gallatin, TN
- R.P. Marzilli & Co., Inc., Medway, MA
- Ruppert Landscape, Laytonsville, MD
- Stano Landscaping, Inc., Milwaukee, WI
- Steven Dubner Landscaping, Inc., Dix Hills, NY
- Surrounds, Inc., Sterling, VA
- TechScape, Inc., Richardson, TX
- The Green View Companies, Oswego, IL
- Town and Gardens, Ltd., New York, NY
- ValleyCrest Landscape Development, Calabasas, CA
Landscape Management will be featuring many of the award winners in its Project Portfolio section in 2010.
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