Achievements

Marion McNew at the PPA conference in Portland, displaying her Honor Landscape Design Award for Sakura Ridge Farm and Lodge, July 2010

Marion McNew and Mount Hood Gardens have been privileged to receive several national landscape design awards for their design work. Competing entries came from all corners of the USA as well as from international members.

The Perennial Plant Association (PPA) program is a nation-wide landscape design competition initiated in 1992, to recognize landscape designers and architects who have produced landscape projects of special merit, and creative use of plants including herbaceous perennials.

The Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) began their Design Award Program in 2002. Winners are judged on effectiveness and functionality of design, relationship to site, suitability of plants and environmental responsibility.

For more details please refer to the included articles.

• 2010: Honor Award (First Place), Perennial Plant Association (PPA), commercial category class VII, over $25,000. Design for Sakura Ridge Farm and Lodge, Hood River, Oregon. This is an international design awards program. Award Ceremony in Portland, Oregon. View award photo. View article. View Perennial Plants article.

• 2009: Merit Award, Perennial Plant Association (PPA), commercial category class VI, under $25,000. Design for Oak Street Hotel, Hood River. Award Ceremony in St. Louis, MO. View award plaque.

• 2007: Marion McNew was accepted as a certified member of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD). She is the 302nd Professional Landscape Designer in the United States to achieve this national honor. View article.

• 2005: Gold Award, Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD), commercial $40,000 to 150,000 category, for Stratton Gardens, Hood River. Award Ceremony in Salt Lake City, UT. View announcement. View article.

• 2005: Honor Award (First Place), Perennial Plant Association (PPA), commercial, class VIII, over $100,000.00, for Stratton Gardens, Hood River. Award Ceremony in Knoxville, TN. View announcement. View article.

• 2003: Gold Award, Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD), residential category under $15,000.00 category. Award ceremony in New York. View announcement. View article.

• 2003: Honor Award (First Place), Perennial Plant Association (PPA), commercial category class VI, under $25,000, Second Street Pocket Park, Hood River. Award Ceremony in Sacramento, CA View announcement. View article.

• 2003: Merit Award, Perennial Plant Association (PPA), residential category class II, under $25,000. Award Ceremony in Sacramento, CA. View announcement. View article.

• 2001: Honor Award (First Place), Perennial Plant Association (PPA), residential category class II, under $25,000. Award Ceremony in Washington, DC. View announcement. View articles.

• 2001: Merit Award, Perennial Plant Association (PPA), commercial category class V, under $5,000. Award Ceremony in Washington, DC. View announcement. View articles.

• 2001: Merit Award, Perennial Plant Association (PPA), commercial category class VI, under $25,000. Award Ceremony in Washington, DC. View announcement. View articles.

• 2001: Merit Award, Perennial Plant Association (PPA), commercial category class V, under $100,000.00. Award Ceremony in Washington, DC. View announcement. View articles 2001 Award Ceremony photo.

Award-winning Stratton Gardens in Hood River, Oregon