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Rainbow Coalition
Garden Master: Wally Kearns
Best Interpretive Signage
Award of Merit
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It’s easy to imagine the leprechaun that should frolic in this garden. Colorful leaves and flowers play hues against one another, so vibrant they almost pulsate.
Contributors: Evergreen Nursery, Advanced Waterscape
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Another Day In Paradise
Garden Master: Jonathan Bosch
Most Creative Use of Space
Award of Merit
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Grab your beach towel and let’s go. It’s your own secret place to relax and enjoy a day in the sun. Palms sway and the flowing water keeps pace to the rhythm of life.
Contributors: Suncoast Natural Waterfeatures, Miramar Nurseries, Southwest Boulder
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Love Me, Love Me Knot
Garden Master: Patti Ferner
Perfection in Nomenclature
Award of Merit
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A formal garden with Old World roots, this creation even includes a meticulous knot garden feature. It is inspired by the Italian tradition, featuring a rosemary hedge and standard roses.
Contributors: Sandpiper Land Care, Hines Nursery, Evergreen Nursery, Norman’s Nursery, Fountain by Este
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Reflecting Pool
Garden Master: Eric Breceda
Perfection in Nomenclature
Award of Merit
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It isn’t necessary to see your face in this lovely Japanese inspired garden. Just quiet your mind and look inside as you observe the simple, but elegant details.
Contributors: Breceda Landscape, 3rd John, Inc., Tony Vitale, designer, KRC Rock, Village Nursery, Breceda Nursery
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Beyond the Ordinary
Garden Master: Emma Almendarez
Proper Plant Identification
Award of Merit
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Plant collectors, look closely, there’s a lot here to hold your interest in this contemporary, minimalist garden. A multitude of silvery containers set off the beautiful specimens, in a creative, highly flexible garden design.
Contributors: Glorious Gardens, Linda Fox, Kristi Beach, Ann Haynes, Staff & Faculty at Mira Costa College Hort. Dept., KRC Rock
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Just The Place
Garden Master: Rebecca Llamas
Award of Merit
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Mediterranean plants abound in this comfortable garden. Water flows from an urn, like the headwater of the stream of life.
Contributors: Garden Chat, Sunshine Gardens, Green Gardens, Briggs Nursery
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Almost Zen
Garden Master: Paige Perkins
Proper Plant Identification
Award of Merit
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Balanced texture and soft colors mixed with the natural elements of wood, stone and water create an environment not only pleasing to the eye, but soothing to the soul. The garden provides space for a quiet reflection or a simple dinner in an almost Zen manner.
Contributors: Garden Chat, “Grounded” Retail Store – Juliana, Mike Perkins, Consultant and Designer, KRC Rock, Funbuilders Contractors, Bill Mangelsdorf Contractor, Hawthorne Wholesale Nursery, Canyon Pottery, Weidners Nursery, Sunshine Gardens Nursery, The Sprinkler Doc, Trisha’s Secret Garden, Marathon Sod
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Magritte’s Day Off
Garden Master: Margee Rader
Best of Show Third Place
Pacific Horticulture Award for Horticultural Excellence
Judges’ Choice
Best Topiary Feature
Proper Plant Identification
Award of Merit
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Even famous surrealist Magritte needs a little time off from his Brussels studio. Here he takes to a surreal park to feed the pigeons.
Contributors: The Original Living Wreath, EuroAmerican Propagators, Shirley Heller
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Naturescape San Diego
Garden Master: Mike Ingrande and Sean Boehle
Most Appealing to Children
Award of Merit
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The plants are selected for low maintenance and drought tolerance, including natives and succulents. A dry stream bed alludes to our seasonal, often minimal, water.
Contributors: Home Depot, Bordiers Nursery, Soil Retention Systems, Hines Nursery, Rancho Soledad Nursery, Ades & Gish, Valley Crest Trees
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In The Swing
Garden Master: Carla McNevin
Award of Merit
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Things are swinging in this tropical landscape, ideal for a San Diego backyard setting. It’s a place to entertain and enjoy or remember the simple joys of childhood.
Contributors: Carla McNevin Landscape Design, J & W Lumber, Tony’s Tropicals, KRC Rock
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Better Off Red
Garden Master: Jeff Moore
Most Dramatic
Best Combinations of Plant Materials
Award of Merit
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The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, because it’s not in this garden. Red toned succulents define and punch up this unusual landscape.
Contributors: Solana Succulents, KRC Rock
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In Good Taste
Garden Master: Shellene Mueller
Best Home Landscape
Proper Plant Identification
Award of Merit
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Using a palette of plants indigenous or adapted to Mediterranean climate conditions this casual garden also incorporates edible plants. Enjoy a lively game of bocce, entertain, relax in style. Beautiful design and functionality with a pique of flavor, too.
Contributors: Designs by Shellene, Blue Horizon, Briggs Tree Company, Inc., Architectural Relics, Southwest Boulders, Rustica Garden Works, Metal Amore
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Self Worth
Garden Master: Matt Cady
Perfection in Nomenclature
Most Educational
Best Intimate Garden
Award of Merit
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Daily bombardment of chaos governs the outside world. Reality can be blaring, disturbing and unsightly, leaving us filled with self-doubt, anxiety and tension. This garden offers a paradox, we create our own reality. Healing crystals, the soothing sound of water, a tranquil pond, help us transition to an internal quiet space exposing our true human potential and self worth.
Contributors: My Secret Garden, Global Seer – Simon Sarkisian, J & W Lumber, M & S Pond Supply, SPJ Lighting Incorporated, Tri-State Materials
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Flash Fusion Formalities
Garden Master: Mike Wirth
Proper Plant Identification
Award of Merit
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This garden design displays a FLASH of lavish bouquets of flower color both in richness and strength FUSED by mutely colored but complimenting textured plants surrounded FORMALLY by iron gazebos and iron fixtures.
Contributors: Plant Play Nursery, Mission Hills Nursery, Garden Chat, Marathon Sod
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Out Back
Garden Master: Danica Hirsh
Best of Show Second Place
Perfection in Nomenclature
Best Compatibility of Plant Materials
Award of Merit
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A marvelous backyard setting with Mediterranean climate plants from Australia and South Africa, and some from New Zealand for good measure. Great for our area, they’re beautiful and drought tolerant.
Contributors: Barrels and Branches, Tom Piergrossi Landscape and Nursery, Willow Lane Growers, KRC Rock, Cape Flower Fields
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Quatro
Garden Master: Cherie Vaughn
Award of Merit
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This display is four individual gardens to view in one. Each is an example of how you can take the big picture and adapt it to a small space
- Restful garden
- Intimate garden
- California garden
- Eclectic garden
Each is a garden for all seasons, low maintenance, and a relaxing environment.
Contributors: Cherie’s Horticulture Services, Plant World, KRC Rock, Miramar Wholesale Nurseries
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Waterscape
Garden Master: Armando Morales
Best Water Feature
Award of Merit
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Plants and water, water and plants.
Contributors: Aqua Terra Water Designs
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Retreat to Nature
Garden Master: Tomo Hamasaki
Most Peaceful Retreat
Award of Merit
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This peaceful woodscape is a place of quiet beauty away from worldly problems and worries. In an adapted, almost oriental style, the clean lines and simplicity calm the mind to focus on the beauty of nature.
Contributors: Tomo Hamasaki Landscape Design, KRC Rock, Vista Tree Farm, Village Nurseries
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Home, Home on the Range
Garden Master: Tricia Daley
Best of Show
First Place
Massachusetts Horticultural Society Medal for Design Excellence
Best Interpretation of Theme
Best Hardscape Feature
Proper Plant Identification
Award of Merit
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This backyard rustic retreat is designed to incorporate sun-loving and drought tolerant plants. Some are native and others were brought from round the world as people settled here. All blend harmoniously into this relaxing ranch setting.
Contributors: Seasons in the Garden, J K Landscape, Inc., SilhouWest Originals, Village Nurseries, La Mesa Lumber, Rancho Jojoba Nursery, Tom Piergrossi Landscaping and Nursery, Cordova Gardens
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Fully Contained
Garden Master: Tiger Palafox
Best Container Plantings
Award of Merit
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Three up-to-the-minute decks highlight the design potential and flexibility of container gardens in a beautiful play off one another. Asian, tropical and ultra modern designs demonstrate the drama of the small garden as an art form.
Contributors: Mission Hills Nursery, Moose Creek Nursery, Timber Tech, J & W Lumber, KRC Rock, Marathon Sod
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Old World Inspiration
Garden Master: Ricardo Aguilar
Best San Diego Adapted Garden
Award of Merit
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Ancient civilizations around the Mediterranean provide the inspiration for this modern interpretation. The elements are here: columns, an arbor, olives and date palms, with a central water feature for relief in the heat of summer.
Contributors: A+ Landscape & Design, Tim Jones Design
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African Safari
Garden Master: Brandon Bullard & Randy Alexander
Best Specialty Garden
Award of Merit
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Large specimen plants, aloes and euphorbias, from Africa dominate this exotic landscape. It’s a play in size, form, color and texture for these exceptional, fascinating plants.
Contributors: Desert Theatre, KRC Rock
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Aqua Terra Water Designs
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Contributors: KRC Rock, Weidners Gardens, Pond Shop |
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