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Author: Kyla Hardon

Winners Announced at the 13th Annual National Awards of Landscape Excellence

The thirteenth annual National Awards of Landscape Excellence took place August 17th in Kelowna, BC. In attendance were the CNLA Board of Directors, BCLNA members, representatives from Caterpillar Inc., DynaSCAPE Software, FCA Canada, HortProtect, Kubota, as well as other distinguished guests and sponsors.

National judges received over 50 entries in the landscape categories alone, where only five could be named national champions. A huge thank you to everyone that participated in their provincial awards for a chance to be entered into the national awards – 2016 was one of the biggest years to date.

The winners in the five landscape categories are: Bruce Wilson Landscaping Ltd.in Ontario, for the Caterpillar Award of Excellence in Commercial Landscape Construction/Installation; Pro-Land Landscape Construction Inc. in Ontario, for the Caterpillar Award of Excellence in Residential Landscape Construction/Installation; Joe Bidermann Landscaping Design Inc. in Nova Scotia, for the DynaSCAPE Award of Excellence in Landscape Design; OGS Grounds Maintenance Specialists in Ontario, for the National Award of Landscape Excellence in Commercial Maintenance; Cedar Springs Landscape Group in Ontario, for the National Award of Landscape Excellence in Residential Maintenance.

Congratulations to all of the winners for truly outstanding projects. Each entrant into the Awards of Excellence program demonstrates a commitment to their community and environment, by upholding the standard of what it means to be a true landscape professional.

Join us November 17-18, 2016 in Edmonton for the Green Industry Show & Conference

The Green Industry Show and Conference is back in Edmonton for 2016! Our amazing team of staff and volunteers have put together a conference programme aimed to inform and inspire everyone from designers to arborists, owners to students, growers to contractors. Our conference sessions are timely and responsive to industry issue – with an updated format for 2016 that focuses on variety with 32 one-hour sessions over the two days.

New this year are two full-day pre-conference workshops designed to fill the need of more in-depth technical level professional development. This year we have two sessions: one for Greenhouse growers, and the other for Landscape Designers.

Conference session highlights include pest diagnosis sessions with Dr. Ken Fry, landscape design process sessions with Gord Koch and Patrick DuChene. Mario Lanthier is speaking on tree pests and root management in nursery production, Paul Zammit with two sessions on edible gardens and winter container arrangements, as well as many more informative and engaging sessions on growing your business, managing work-life balance, improving performance and the latest and greatest in horticultural and business technologies. Everyone will find something to stoke their fire and those looking for continuing education credits will also find sessions to fulfill those needs.

Landscape Alberta members receive preferred pricing on trade show and conference registration. In addition to the educational opportunities, all conference attendees have access to the Green Industry Show. With over 250 booths, it is the largest green industry show in Western Canada and is an annual must-see event. For more information on the Green Industry Show & Conference and to view the full conference program, please visit www.greenindustryshow.com.

Registration opens in September!

Member Referral Cards

Landscape Alberta has prepared handy Member Referral Cards for potential customers looking for landscape professionals in their area. The card features the association logo and provides a link to our online member search at landscapealberta.com/findapro. The cards are intended for garden centre and nursery members that want to help their customers find contractor members to provide landscape construction, design or maintenance services. If you would like referral cards to pass out to your customers, please contact Kyla at the Landscape Alberta office at kyla.hardon@landscape-alberta.com.  There is no cost for these cards.