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All-America Rose Selections RECOGNIZES NATION’S BEST ROSE GARDENS
Winners of 2007 “Designing with Roses” Competition Featured on www.Rose.org
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9, 2007 – All-America Rose SelectionsTM (AARSTM) is pleased to announce the winning gardens for the 2007 “Designing with Roses” competition. Judges from Better Homes & Gardens, the American Society of Landscape Architects, Weeks Roses, Mae Nurseries and Jackson & Perkins considered submissions from across the country for this second annual competition. Professionals and students submitted a variety of types of gardens including large public gardens, restoration projects, memorial gardens, university grounds and private homes. The judges selected the designs that best demonstrated excellent landscape design execution, and incorporation of rose plants into the site design.
Tiffany-Inspired Garden Nabs First Place in Professional Category
The judges awarded first place in the professional category to, “The Heather Lenkin Tiffany Garden,” by Heather Lenkin of Los-Angeles-based Lenkin Design. She received a Sony VAIO notebook computer loaded with professional landscape design software. A necklace named, ‘A Palette of Sapphires,’ from Tiffany & Co. inspired Lenkin to create her winning garden for the Los Angeles Arboretum’s May 2007 LA Garden Show. The necklace’s nine sapphires moved Lenkin to work with a palate of nine varieties of roses. In addition to the glitz of the roses such as ‘Tiffany’ and ‘Social Climber,’ the ground was mulched with glittering colored glass. Since the 900 square foot boxwood knot garden was movable, Lenkin sold the piece after the Garden Show and donated the proceeds to the Los Angeles Arboretum’s Artist in Residence program and Huntington Memorial Hospital’s pet assisted therapy program.
Professional Category Winners:
| First Place: |
Heather Lenkin
Lenkin Design of Los Angeles, Calif., for the Heather Lenkin Tiffany Garden |
| Second Place: |
David Rolfe
Land Spectrum of Corona, Calif. for the Cobblestone Rose Garden at Trilogy at
Glen Ivy |
| Third Place: |
Jan Saltiel Rafel
Edgewater Design LLC of Millburn NJ, for the Alpine Estate Rose Garden |
Revitalization Project Wins the Student Category
Cornell University student Stephanie Gautama was inspired by the forgotten Stallman Rose Garden, at Stewart Park, in Ithaca, New York. Her revitalized design plan was divided into three parts, meditation, celebration and reflection. These three themed garden rooms together created a tranquil journey of roses that starts with a meditation room of white roses and ends with a reflection pool surrounded by orange and cream roses. This is not only a new sanctuary for Stewart Park but it is also an educational rose garden for that community. Gautama wanted, “Children, as well as parents and grandparents to come to this garden to experience and enjoy the beauty of roses.” Stephanie’s design took top honors in the student category, and she received the $1,500 first place prize for her creative concept.
Student Category Winners:
| First Place: |
Stephanie Gautama of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY,
for the Stallman Rose Garden: Meditation, Celebration, Reflection |
| Second Place: |
Jeff Alexander and Katie Truitt of Texas Tech University in Lubbock,
for the Ida Mauser Memorial Rose Garden |
| Third Place: |
Elaine Stevenson of County College of Morris, Morris Plains, NJ f
or the House of Roses |
“We were thrilled to receive such exceptionally well designed entries for both our Professional and Student categories, the judges had a very tough job on their hands,” said Tom Carruth, AARS president. “As the designs show, roses are a lovely component in any garden or landscape. We hope this competition encourages people to plant them in their own gardens, especially when they discover how easy it is to grow and enjoy roses with the AARS seal of approval.”
For more information and to see images of the winning designs, visit the AARS website 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. For nearly 70 years, the AARS trial program has encouraged the rose industry to improve the vitality, disease resistance and beauty of roses for American home gardens. AARS Winners are labeled with the AARS red rose as a seal of approval to distinguish them from other plants in the nursery. Today, the AARS testing program is one of the most successful and highly regarded of its kind in the world, having brought to the forefront such roses as Knock Out, Peace and Bonica.
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