All-America Rose Selections Kicks Off Its Second Annual
All-America Rose SelectionS KICKS OFF ITS SECOND ANNUAL
“DESIGNING WITH ROSES” COMPETITION
Call for Entries is Extended to Professional Landscape Architects and Designers,
Students and U.S. Public Gardens
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2, 2007 – For the second consecutive year, All-America Rose SelectionsTM (AARSTM) announces the call for entries to its Designing with Roses Competition, which recognizes and honors excellence in landscape architecture and garden design. The competition is accepting entries from professional and student landscape architects and designers until July 2, 2007. Additionally, in this year’s competition U.S. public gardens will be judged as their own category, and are encouraged to enter to receive nationwide recognition.
Winning entries will be selected by a jury of experts, including members of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and garden writers from trade and consumer gardening publications. The esteemed panel will evaluate all entries for design excellence, creativity and execution in the fields of landscape architecture and garden design. To honor the AARS’ mission of introducing and promoting exceptional roses, all submissions must incorporate U.S. roses as a primary design element. The call for entries includes all types of landscapes, from commercial properties—including hospitals, corporate complexes and university grounds—to public gardens, private estates and homes.
Selected winners will be announced and honored in September at the 59th annual Garden Writers Association symposium in Oklahoma City, Okla.
Winners will be recognized in both professional and student design categories. The first place prize for the professional winner will be a Sony VAIO® laptop computer with landscaping and design software; and a $1,000 cash prize will be awarded to the first place student entry. In addition, second and third place professional and student selections will also be awarded, and all finalists will be publicized in a variety of industry publications including the AARS newsletter and Web site, ASLA related newsletters, as well as other landscape trade and general interest garden publications. For U.S. Public Gardens, first, second and third place recognition will include a plaque and national honors from the AARS. For more details on the selection process or prizes, visit the AARS Web site at www.rose.org.
“We were thrilled with the innovative and imaginative entries we received from our inaugural Designing with Roses Competition,” says AARS president Steve Hutton. “The landscape architecture and design community are thought leaders in garden trends, and it’s imperative that they continue to demonstrate to the general public that roses are suitable in many landscapes and can be at the forefront of design.”
For more information, official rules and to enter the competition, visit the AARS Web site at www.rose.org.
About All-America Rose Selections (www.rose.org)
All-America Rose Selections is a nonprofit association dedicated to the introduction and promotion of exceptional roses. Since 1938, the AARS trial program has encouraged the rose industry to improve the vitality, disease resistance and beauty of roses for American home gardens. Today, the AARS program is one of the most successful and highly regarded of its kind, having brought to the forefront such roses as Peace, Mister Lincoln, Knock Out™ and Julia Child.
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