The theme – A Burst of Color: Celebrating the Container Garden — focused on the endless creative possibilities of container gardening. The 2011 Boston Flower & Garden Show featured dozens of ways to add vibrancy, warmth, and drama to any size space – a sunny welcome on a city terrace, a gourmet harvest in a suburban side yard, or a fresh focal point for a mature landscape.
2011 Show Awards
To view and download the 2011 Professional Gardens Major Awards Recipients, click here.
To view and download the 2011 Amateur Competition Awards Recipients, click here.
2011 Garden Exhibitors
All New England Orchid Societies
Massachusetts Dept of Agricultural Resources Ribbon – Plant Society
Bonsai Study Group
Silver Medal of the Worcester Horticultural Society
Cass School of Floral Design, Watertown, MA
Crystal Brinson (Horticulturalist), Fairhaven, MA
Boston Flower & Garden Show $2K Premium Award for Forced Plant Material
Demonstration Garden by the Massachusetts Nursery & Landscape Association
Earthworks, Leverett, MA
Fine Garden Art, Lee, NH
Heimlich Nurseries, Woburn, MA
Edmund V. Mezitt Award
Cary Award Certificate
Massachusetts Dept of Agricultural Resources Ribbon – Student Group
Jameson Landscaping & Irrigation, Mansfield, MA
Liquid Landscape Designs, Carlisle, MA
Magma Design Group, Pawtucket, RI
Mahoney’s Garden Centers, Brighton, Concord, East Falmouth, Osterville, Tewksbury, Wayland & Winchester, MA
People’s Choice Award
Markus Specimen Trees, Boston, MA
Massachusetts Master Gardeners Association
Massachusetts Dept of Agricultural Resources Ribbon – Non-Profit Organization
Michael C. Jardin Fine Gardens, Lakeville, MA & Katsura Gardens, Plymouth, MA
Allen C. Haskell Award
Miskovsky Landscaping, Falmouth, MA & Allen C. Haskell Horticulturists, Inc.
Boston Flower & Garden Show $3K Premium Award for Forced Plant Material
Massachusetts Dept. of Agricultural Resources Award
Horticulture Helps Award
New England Land Artisan, Statham, NH & Potted Up, Boston, MA
Landscape Design Council of the Garden Club Federation of MA Award I
Massachusetts Association of Landscape Professionals Award
New England Nurseries, Bedford, MA & William Gaipo Landscape Design & Development, Tyngsboro, MA
Massachusetts Flower Growers Association Award
New England Society of Botanical Artists
Newport Flower Show, Newport, RI
Boston Flower & Garden Show $1K Premium Award for Forced Plant Material
Peter R. Sadeck, Lakeville, MA
Best of Show Award
Boston Society of Landscape Architects Award
Ecological Landscape Association Environmental Vision Award
Emily Seaber Parcher Award
Horticultural Club of Boston Award
Massachusetts Nursery & Landscapers Association Award
New England Nursery Association Award
World Association of Floral Arrangers
2011 Container Garden Invitational
- Sponsored by Weston Nurseries
This new feature offered yet another way to appreciate plants and flowers, as fifteen professional designers and horticultural organizations present eye-popping, colorful and inspirational vignettes in this display subtitled “Thrill, Spill and Fill”, the shorthand recipe for an effective container garden. Participating designers included:
A Blade of Grass, Wayland, MA
C.N. Smith Farm, East Bridgewater, MA
The Captured Garden, Milton, MA
City of Boston Parks Department, Boston, MA
Festoon Designs representing COGDesign
Back to Nature representing the Ecological Landscaping Association
Roanne Robbins & Sara Begg, Authors, The Continuous Container Garden, Storey Press
Harding Botanicals, Southborough, MA
Nunan’s Florist & Greenhouses, Georgetown, MA
Snug Harbor Farm, Kennebunkport, ME
Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Boylston, MA
Verde, Providence, RI
Weston Nurseries, Hopkinton, MA
Special thanks to Frank Hamm for the rustic arbor around which all of these amazing vignettes were staged.
2011 Florist Invitational
Coordinated by the Massachusetts Professional Florists Association, guests were dazzled by three over-the-top takes on floral designs by enthusiastic members of this newly founded professional group. Designers:
Nunan’s Florist & Greenhouses, Georgetown, MA
Ryan’s Florist, Arlington, MA
Village Arts & Flowers, Walpole, MA
If you are interested in learning about creating a garden, a Florist Invitational display or an Invitational vignette at the 2012 show, contact Carolyn Weston, Show Director, (800) 258-8912 or cweston@paragonexpo.com.
