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The Stream Hill Park garden looking south. Photo courtesy Brenda Adams.Brenda Adams of Homer has won a national award for a garden she designed in Homer.
Garden designer Brenda Adams at Stream Hill Park during the garden tour in Homer last year. Fran Durner photo.The Perennial Plant Association announced its 2009 Landscape Design Awards at a national symposium in St. Louis last week and awarded Adams a Merit Award, her second in three years, for the 6,000-square-foot entry garden at Stream Hill Park development, about a mile and a half out East End Road.
Tanacetum and Calamogrostis 'Karl Foerster' at Stream Hill Park. Fran Durner photo.The garden was on the Homer Garden Tour last year and people who visited may remember how the saturated colors of the blooming flowers popped even on the gray, rainy day it was.
According to a press release from the PPA, "Every year the PPA members submit landscape designs they have erected to be judged for high level of excellence. Judges evaluate the designs and select the winning entries based on the effectiveness of herbaceous perennial plant material used through the implantations of new cultivars, color combinations, textures, and seasonal combinations."
Perennials were planted in mass. Brenda designed the garden to always be in bloom throughout the season. Photo courtesy Brenda Adams."The judges note that the (Adams) garden is a jewel with spectacular bloom and a great use of perennial masses."
"Yellow was used as the unifying color for the garden with accents of orange, blue, red and purple. Special emphasis was placed on texture, movement and lush foliage. Overall 125 plant varieties were used, with 1,590 plants total and over 1,000 daffodils."
Foliage and texture was an important part of the design. Photo courtesy Brenda Adams.Brenda is a master gardener, the current president of the Homer Garden Club and owns Gardens by Design. She has designed over 100 gardens while working closely with her clients. She is also writing a book about gardening in Alaska.
This seaside garden won Brenda her first PPA award. Fran Durner photo.Brenda won her first Merit Award in 2007 with a design she executed at a private home that was on the 2007 Homer Garden Tour. The 2009 Homer Garden Tour will take place on next Sunday, August 2, from 11am til 5pm, and one can't help wonder if one of those gardens is an Adams design, will it be the next winnner? Tickets for the tour, $15, are available at the Homer Book Store, the Chamber of Commerce and in the parking lot of the Homer City Hall on the day of the tour from 10am til noon.
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