Diverse landscapes

1: First place, Category III: Ashton Gardens at Thanksgiving Point, Lehi, Utah

Ashton Gardens highlighted the people in their community who had experiences with cultures and plants outside of Utah.

2: Second place, Category III: Montreal Botanical Garden, Montreal, Quebec

This Canadian garden was designed using each color in the chromatic circle.

3: Third place, Category III: State Botanical Garden, Athens, Georgia

Using a diverse group of college student interns, this Georgia garden focused on human diversity with a goal of inviting visitors to the AAS planting bed to explore plants up close.

4: First place, Category II: Purdue Extension-Marion County Demonstration Garden, Indianapolis, Indiana

Extension Master Gardener volunteers worked with the Purdue Extension to focus on a variety of plants and cultivars, and incorporate an array of colors.

5: Second place, Category II: Powell Gardens, Kingsville, Missouri

With raised beds and a range of gardening techniques, Powell Gardens used colors, shapes, sizes and different types of plants to show diversity.

6: Third place, Category II: Domaine Joly-De Lotbinière, Sainte-Croix, Quebec

Plants are used to symbolize recent human rights movements such as Black Lives Matter, Native Lives Matter and All Lives Matter in this Quebecois garden.

7: First place, Category I: Lee College Horticulture Program, Huntsville, Texas

Horticulturalists looked to different structures, textures and colors to represent diversity at the Lee College Horticulture Program garden.

8: Second place, Category I (tie): Mississippi State University, Poplarville, Mississippi

A total of 17 varieties of ornamentals and 16 edibles were included in this garden. A diverse number of planting methods were incorporated which included in-ground, traditional containers, whiskey half-barrels, rail planters, hanging bag planters and elevated tables.

9: Second place, Category I (tie): Pima County Master Gardener Demonstration Garden, Tucson, Arizona

This 700-square-foot raised garden sparked a larger conversation among planners regarding diversity in the local community and American society.

10: Third place, Category I: Knitting Mill Creek Community Garden, Norfolk, Virginia

This Virginia garden brought together edibles, ornamentals and native pollinator plants to show passersby what they can plant in their own gardens.