APGA Awards
The APGA recognizes the outstanding accomplishments of its members through its awards: Honorary Life Member, Award of Merit, Professional Citation, Award for Program Excellence, Horticulture Magazine Award for Garden Excellence, the Dorothy E. Hansell Publication Award, Student Travel Award, and our newest award, the APGA Service Award. The Award for Program Excellence, Horticulture Magazine Award, and Dorothy E. Hansell Publication Award honor institutions. The others pay tribute to individuals. The newest for 2008 is the APGA and Longwood Gardens University Faculty Travel Grant.
Honorary Life Member Award
APGA confers its most prestigious award, the Honorary Life Member Award, upon an individual who has provided meritorious service to the Association over a long period of time and has displayed an uncommon devotion to the field of public horticulture. The award is designed to honor an individual who has for many years supported the Association through active committee work, energetic membership, and leadership positions and whose efforts have led to the advancement of the Association. Besides working tirelessly for the Association, this individual is expected to have held leadership positions that further the missions of public gardens. This award is generally given to an individual nearing or in retirement. Given the status of this award, it is not expected to be given on an annual basis.
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2008 Honorary Life Member Award Nomination Form
Award of Merit
The Award of Merit recognizes an individual APGA member who has performed with distinction in the field of public horticulture and has excelled as a public garden professional at one or more institutions. The recipient's accomplishments will encompass some combination of botany, horticulture, conservation, gardening, research, extension, education, development, or administration. The intent is that this award be given to an individual during the latter part of an illustrious career, preferably before retirement.
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2008 Award of Merit Nomination Form
Professional Citation
The Professional Citation recognizes the significant achievements in public horticulture of an individual member who has excelled in one of the disciplines generally associated with public gardens such as botany, horticulture, gardening, conservation, research, education, extension, development, or administration. Recipients need not be at the end of a long, illustrious career; instead, it is recommended that they generally have 20 years or less experience and have shown great skills, innovation, and potential in short, but productive, careers.
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2008 Professional Citation Nomination Form
APGA Service Award
Created in 2004, this award is reserved for an individual who has shown selfless service to the organization through work as a Professional Committee member, Service Committee member, and/or Board member. It is not the intent that this award be given solely to Board members (all Board members must wait four years after the expiration of their terms before being nominated) but to all who participate actively in the Association's business through their volunteer efforts. The Association's strength is based on its volunteers, and the Association wishes to recognize their contributions.
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2008 APGA Service Award Nomination Form
Award for Program Excellence
This award is reserved for an APGA institutional member who has displayed a truly innovative spirit in the development of new programs and has pioneered in one or more of the disciplines appropriate to public horticultural institutions, including education, conservation, development, botany, gardening, horticulture, research, extension, or administration. The committee will take into consideration a garden's budget when determining the award recipient.
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2008 Award for Program Excellence
Horticulture Magazine Award for Garden Excellence
Started in 2003, the Horticulture Magazine Award for Garden Excellence is an annual award given to a public garden that exemplifies the highest standards of horticultural practices. Selected by its peers, the award recipient is a public garden that has shown a commitment to supporting and demonstrating best gardening practices. The criteria for this award include:
- The best designed and most horticulturally outstanding display
- Gardening practices that are appropriate to a local or regional environment and reflect environmentally informed horticulture
- Maintenance of commitment to plant collections
- Demonstrated commitment to the national or a regional horticultural community
- Encouraging students of gardening at all levels through innovative horticultural practices
2008 Horticulture Magazine Award for Garden Excellence Nomination Form
Dorothy E. Hansell Publication Award
This award is a tribute to a woman who stood for excellence in horticultural and botanical journalism. Hansell was editor of the New York Botanical Garden's Garden Journal, the Newsletter and Bulletin of the Holly Society of America, the American Bonsai Society Journal, and the APGA Bulletin. The following are the categories and recipients listed by year.
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2008 Dorothy E. Hansell Publication Award Nomination Form
Student Travel Award
To help students attend its conferences, APGA offers the Student Travel Awards that cover the registration fees and subsidize the travel costs of deserving undergraduate or graduate students.
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2008 Student Travel Award Nomination Form
APGA/Longwood Gardens University Faculty Travel Grant
The American Public Gardens Association Annual Conference is an excellent forum for scholarly development. Attendance at the APGA Annual Conference will enable you to disseminate information about your teaching, research, and/or extension programs in public horticulture; to learn from the conference seminars, workshops, and tours; and to network with other professionals from universities and public gardens. APGA and Longwood Gardens are committed to the scholarship and the profession of public horticulture and, thus, have partnered to offer six University Faculty Travel Grants this year.
2008 APGA/Longwood Gardens University Faculty Travel Grant Application Form
