Orlando, FL - A select handful of exceptional landscape projects across Florida were honored in September during The 2019 Landscape Show in Orlando. Landscape contractors, designers and architects were recognized for their outstanding projects which included new landscape installations, renovations, and maintenance undertakings.
Presented to the year’s impressive entries were three top-tier accolades: FNGLA’s Roy Rood Award, FNGLA’s Floriculture Award, and the Florida-Friendly Landscape™ Award.
Eight Environmental Stewardship recognitions were also bestowed upon projects in acknowledgment of their effective environmental stewardship, ecological sustainability and/or adaptation to local conditions (e.g., wetland mitigations, dune or wildlife habitat restorations, re-establishment/enhancement of conservation areas or natural preserves).
The FNGLA Landscape Awards Program was established in 1970 to recognize landscape excellence in Florida. Forty-nine years later, FNGLA is still celebrating "the best of the best" by recognizing projects and businesses which excel in creating some of the best landscapes in Florida.
Here are the 2019 winners:
Landscape Contractor: Heroman Services Plant Co. and Outdoor Expressions
Landscape Architect: Cerys Heroman, RLA, Heroman Services Plant Company, and Allan Sturletz, RLA, Creative Scapes, Inc.
The objective was to create from over an acre of undeveloped waterfront property a Mediterranean landscape to complement the recently renovated, nineteenth century-inspired Spanish farmhouse.
Landscape Contractors: Heroman Services Plant Co. and Outdoor Expressions
Landscape Architect: Cerys Heroman, RLA, Heroman Services Plant Company, and Allan Sturletz, RLA, Creative Scapes, Inc.
The objective was to create from over an acre of undeveloped waterfront property a Mediterranean landscape to complement the recently renovated, nineteenth century-inspired Spanish farmhouse.
Landscape Contractor and Designer: Andrew Kirlin
Objective and challenges included using as many continuously blooming year-round, or most of year blooming, long-life plants and trees as possible all together in order to maximize landscaping color without looking messy or weedy.
Landscape Contractor: Big Trees Plantation, Newberry
Landscape Designer: Ed Bravo, Big Trees Plantation, Newberry, FL
The objective was to transition from hundreds of acres of green spaces, street treescapes, and pedestrian landscape esplanades with traditional irrigation sprays and rotors to full compliance with the Florida Water Star criteria separating high and low volume irrigation.
Landscape Contractor: Landscape Service Professionals, Inc.
Riverwalk at Lago Mar is a small, but high-end townhouse community within Plantation, Florida.
Landscape Contractor: Volunteers and students
Landscape Designer: Stefan Liopiros, Big Trees Plantation, Gainesville, FL
This project to beautify the front-facing side of this training facility was 100 percent volunteer-conceived and completed. It was implemented over the course of a year in three phases. In addition to the new landscape plants, a paver walkway between buildings was also installed. Student and teacher volunteers from the Future Builders of America, were under the direction during different phases by industry professionals including: Stefan Liopiros (Big Trees Plantation); Will Womack (Southern Garden Solutions); Ed Bravo (Big Trees Plantation); JR Reiner (Reliable Peat); and, Maria Muhlhahn (West Bay Landscape). the entire project was coordinated by FNGLA with plants, supplies, tools and irrigation materials donated by FNGLA members.