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BC Landscape Awards of Excellence
About the Program
The BC Landscape Awards of Excellence is coordinated by the
BCLNA to recognize and profile the high standard of landscaping excellence in
BC. The program began in 1981 as an opportunity for BC landscape professionals
to officially showcase their quality landscaping projects in a competition.
Today, this opportunity has grown to a rewarding, prominent event exposing
landscapers and sponsors to over 200,000 potential customers! This is a great
way for landscapers to market their services and skills by showing their clients
the passion and pride they take in their work. At the same time, sponsors
demonstrate their loyalty to the industry and to their landscape customers.
For more information or to receive an entry package please
contact Annika by email or
by phone to 604-574-7772.
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About Entering
Plan in advance which landscaping projects you are entering to demonstrate to
the judges the effort and expertise it took to complete each transformation. First,
be sure that the projects will be in 'full bloom' around judging time (late
August/early September). Occasionally, with a 'young garden' it is better to
wait a year to enter. Once you have decided on the projects you want to enter,
start taking some 'before' pictures of the sites (always a good visual tool
to influence the judge's decisions). Finally, be sure to enter by the deadline
(usually the second or last week of August).
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Landscape
Award Winners 2008
Unique or Special Feature
Anne
Talbot-Kelly Garden Design, and
Ray Lachance
Handcrafted Pond & Garden
gardenhabitats.ca |
www.pondandgarden.ca
This project was the final step in a major home renovation that saw a rebirth
of the 1928 home, integrating two separate buildings
with a contemporary, functional, and food-producing garden. Emphasis was placed
on saving a heritage apple tree, re-using materials, and adding sustainable
gardening practices.
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Unique
of Special Feature
Heike
Designs
www.heikedesigns.com
With a mandate to create a “spa-like” setting
emulative of those found at prestigious hotels, challenges
of access and drainage were overcome to transform a swamp
into a lush, vibrant oasis that compliments the contemporary
interior and exterior of the house at its core. The garden
showcases eye catching foliage, contrasting colours and the
environmentally friendly techniques to which Heike is devoted.
Project Installer: Terracraft
Landscape Ltd. & Heike Designs.
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Alpine
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Landscape
Maintenance - Multi-Unit Residential
Para
Space Landscaping Inc.
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Para Space Landscaping...
The main feature of this property besides the excellent location
is the tranquil pond on the second floor garden. Para Space provides
year round maintenance service to this site that includes all aspects
of lawn care, pruning, garden bed work, and the general cleanup
of the site. All plant health needs including the fertilizing of
lawns and plants and the control of any pests are done with an
Integrated Pest Managment approach.
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Quaywest
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Landscape
Maintenance - Multi-Unit Residential
Para
Space Landscaping Inc.
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Para Sapce Landscaping...
These gardens have been designed with a formal English style in
mind with many beautiful courtyards throughout the complex. Para
Space provides year round maintenance service to this site that
includes all aspects of lawn care; pruning, garden bed work, and
the general clean up of the site. All plant health needs including
the fertilization of lawns and plants and the control of any pests
use an Integrated Pest Managment approach. They are also responsible
for designing and installing the prominent flower displays at the
entrance and clubhouse and provide annuals for the gardening committee
to install in their parking lot.
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Thames
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Maintenance - Single Family Residential
Blasig
Landscape Design & Construction
www.blasig.com
Blasig utilises an IPM approach in their maintenance schedule to
reduce pesticide use. They have established thresholds for acceptable
levels of pests and damage to plants with the client. Weekly record
keeping allows review of trends and cycles as the garden develops.
With no sloped access for maintenance, removing debris and green
waste is an ongoing challenge. All materials are moved up and down
the 24 stairs and steep driveway. Active children test their lawn
maintenance abilities. With a mix of evergreens, perennials and
annuals the 15 seasonal containers on the upper deck, the patio
near the pool and at the front entrance - are kept looking awesome
throughout the year.
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Bennett
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Installation - Commercial
Anne
Talbot-Kelly Garden Design, and
Fireworks Marketing Group
gardenhabitats.ca | www.fireworksmarketing.com
Playland, situated in Hastings Park since 1910, has embarked on a mission
to bring substantial greenspace back to the park. To help achieve this
vision, “The Honeybee Express” was designed to provide a
garden experience for young train riders that passes through a variety
of natural habitats representative of BC landscape. The finished project
includes a combination of BC Native trees, shrubs and flowers to create
a butterfly meadow, a wild blueberry patch, a rocky forested canyon,
and a marsh. Project Installer: Valleyside Landscaping.
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Installation
- Commercial
Westbank Nursery Ltd. DBA Dogwood Landscaping
www.dogwoodnursery.com
Accented by the breathtaking views of the vineyards, the mountains
and Okanagan Lake, Quail’s Gate Estate Winery is by far one
of the most photographed view points of the Westside of Kelowna.
It is only fitting that the landscaping be spectacular! Dogwood
Landscaping installed fresh organic herb gardens for the winery’s
world class restaurant, three water features for guided tours through
the gardens, and paving stone walkways with wheelchair accessibility.
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Landscape
Installation - Single Family Residential
Anderson
Garden Services Inc.
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Anderson Garden Services...
Upon purchase of this residence, the owners immediately
asked the builder not to complete the standard front garden
as they had their own ideas of what it should look like. For
them the necessary elements included a small semi-private space
with a patio to enjoy the summer sun and a small lawn for their
dog. This was all to be surrounded by a lush garden that included
colour year around. This garden is an example of what can be
achieved in a small space. It has turned out to be exactly what
the owners wanted. And relaxing on the patio in the summer sun
with a gathering of friends makes it all the more enjoyable.
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Installation - Single Family Residential
Blasig
Landscape Design & Construction
www.blasig.com
The
garden was tired – brick steps and borders, and concrete
patio were chipping and dull, and the enclosure around the swimming
pool was unattractive and chopped the garden in two. The lower
area was out of sight – devoid of interest or function.
Building a small, charming studio on the lower level invited
people along the slate and thyme pathway and down the new basalt
covered steps. The curved steps from the pool to the house allow
an easy transition, and both areas have ample, varied seating
areas. The built in barbecue uses the same natural (Brohm) stone
as the lower wall, and has a decorative wrought iron door. Replacing
the tile and plaster in the pool changed the colour of the water
to a soothing tropical green.
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Installation - Single Family Residential
Hunter
Landscape Design Inc.
www.hldesign.com
The owner’s existing features such as the wood deck, fence
and plantings dated the unique house, doing no justice to the
clients’ “artsy” nature and sense of style.
Hunter Landscape Design created a covered outdoor sitting area
for morning coffee and afternoon tea incorporating aspects like
stained glass, a custom gate, split cedar fencing, distinctive
paving and a round river boulder water feature. The small space
was transformed from dated to inviting and tranquil.
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Installation - Single Family Residential
Pure
Landscapes Ltd.
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This year-long design/build landscape was an exercise in construction
detailing. The clients wanted a space built that extended the
adjacent kitchen/dining room and made sense of an awkward existing
landscape. At only 18’ x 15’, the challenge was one
of scale and proportion. Pure Landscapes took their cue in materials
from the interior finishes to seamlessly transition between indoor
and outdoor. Hardwood finishes complement the furniture and trim
details inside the home, and stone selections work closely with
interior tiling.
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Installation - Single Family Residential
RCB
Garden Services & The Green Man Landscape Services
RCB Tel. 604 657-5170 | Green Man Tel. 778 840-0323
This classic house deserved a beautiful landscape, and had been
left wanting. A brand new house in Kitsilano, built in the heritage
style of the neighborhood, the yard had turned into a virtual
swamp during the first winter the new owners spent there. The
problem? Poor drainage... tons of construction debris buried
under the hard clay from the basement excavation. We removed
the debris and a leaking pond, improved the soil, and created
pathways and perennial gardens that wind through this standard
city corner lot - transforming it into an urban oasis.
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Installation - Single Family Residential
Allgreen
Landscaping
Tel. 250 390-3397
This Gabriola Island bungalow, with beautiful interior but barren
front and back yards, was greatly improved by the addition of
a gabled front entrance, colorful planting beds and the creation
of an authentic looking dry streambed at the front roadside where
previously there had been only a plain rough ditch. In the back
yard, a 120 foot long stream was built from scratch, flowing
from a high point near the house down over seven waterfalls,
past large boulders and varied plantings, under two bridges and
on down to a peaceful lily pond at the far bottom corner of the
property.
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Installation - Single Family Residential
Heike
Designs
www.heikedesigns.com
Inspired
by the native art intrinsic to the design of the house, this
landscape is a vivacious natural paradise comprising flowing
wavy lines that complement the native carvings featured on the
house at its center. Meticulous coordination between contractors
was necessary in the competition for space, time and equipment,
and use of specialist machinery required to solve access problems
at the rear of the property. Conservation of water, labour and
plant material was achieved through recycling, strategic planting
and use of native plants that thrive naturally in the area. Views
have been considered from all angles, groundcover and grasses
with unique shapes making for attractive birds eye views from
the deck. Project Installer: Benbow Custom Homes (tel. 604-932-8794) & Heike
Designs.
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Installation - Single Family Residential
Hunter
Landscape Design Inc.
www.hldesign.com
The
only request of this client was to make his backyard into “an
awe inspiring, classy Disneyland…and…an outdoor
private tropical retreat.” Hunter Landscape managed to
create a seamless effect from patio to garden to pool to sitting
area which was impressive to all including their own crew. A
tropical paradise was indeed created and surrounds you throughout
the entire yard thus achieving the private and intimate space
requested. With the outdoor shower, jade and basalt boulders
and planting selections, the homeowner may forget they have just
stepped into their own backyard.
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Installation - Single Family Residential
Pacifica
Landscape Works Inc div. of Pacifica Design Group
www.pacificalandscapes.com
A successful design theme was established to fuse the architectural
style of the home with the existing topography and west coast
design elements. A rapidly cascading waterfall maintains the
eternal flow of water from the upper garden room to the lower
entertaining area allowing for multiple viewing options. The
source point of the waterfall was designed to recreate the look
of a natural spring carved into the rock; then cascading down
the edge of the hand carved stair case line with specimen basalt
boulders, leading to the lower entertaining area. Both garden
rooms’ great your feet with beautifully hand carved concrete
surfaces. The upper patio acts as a service and viewing area,
with the lower patio functioning more as an entertaining space
for larger gatherings.
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Installation - Single Family Residential
Blasig
Landscape Design & Construction
www.blasig.com
From
design to completion, this garden renovation was full of intricate
details, and took 11 months. All the services needed to be moved
as the design included: relocation of the driveway; creation
of a separate pathway from the street to the front door; removing
the existing pool and pump house; building of another pool further
from the house; building a cabana/washroom/change room/pumphouse;
encompassing the door into the house, the hot tub, outdoor kitchen
and sit up counter under one roof; gas heaters over the kitchen;
lighting throughout the garden; a large tiled fountain ---- and
more.
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Installation - Single Family Residential
Pure
Landscapes Ltd.
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This half-acre property on Southlands is a gardener’s dream.
Designed by Paul Sangha Ltd, the south-facing slope sets lush
perennial beds and hundred-year old brick against the beautifully
restored home. This 8-month complete landscape renovation began
in February 2007. In only its second year, this garden looks
as though it has existed forever. The period site furnishings,
antique brick, and full, healthy garden beds are masterfully
combined to help make the garden look as though it has been here
for generations. Project Designer: Paul Sangha Ltd.
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Installation - Single Family Residential
SoundGarden
Landscape and Design Ltd.
www.asoundgarden.com
Located in
the Pemberton flood plain, we created the illusion that the
house is not sitting on eight feet of preload and in order
to do this we dug a large earth pond in the back and used this
dirt to design a gradual slope on the entire property. An eight
foot waterfall feature was designed to transition between the
salt water pool to the earth pond below, where the water travels
under a bridge and through the natural vegetation that is continuously
forming. A vegetable garden, large eight man firepit, hot tub
area and bridge taking you to the heli-pad and caretaker’s
quarters are other features of this property.
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