All - America Selections late honored two journalists with the AAS Medallion of Honor at the annual AAS / NGB Awards Banquet . This yr ’s banquet was bear at Cantigny Park and Gardens in Wheaton , Illinois , one of the two hundred AAS Display Gardens across North America .
The AAS / NGB Awards Banquet is a time - honour celebration where industry representatives , judges , breeder , grower , retailers and resellers gathered for the annual AAS and NGB Summer Summit . This year ’s upshot was carry for the first - sentence ever in connective with the annual PPA symposium .
The 2019 upshot include tours of The Gardens at Ball Horticultural Company , Cantigny Gardens , Lurvey Garden Center , Chicago Botanic Garden , Chalet Nursery and Lurie Garden .
AAS Medallion of HonorThe prestigious AAS Medallion of Honor is typically salute to one someone who has give a womb-to-tomb commitment to the advancement of horticulture and contribution in raising the visibleness of All - America Selections Winners .
AAS Medallion of Honor recipients Karen Weir - Jimerson and Doug Jimerson
All - America Selections is proud of to announce that for the first time ever , the 2019 Medallion of Honor was given to not just one , but two recipients who also just happen to be husband and wife .
This year ’s recipients are Doug and Karen Weir - Jimerson . Doug lead off his calling at Better Homes & Gardens in 1976 and turn his mode up to executive garden editor program , serve that publishing for more than three 10 . As a freelance author , Karen is the author of unnumberable cartridge holder stories and books , including 15 in the Better Homes and Gardens brand . Together , this dynamic duet established the first Better Home and Gardens Test Garden at their home farm outside Des Moines , Iowa . That garden is now locate at the Meredith HQ in business district Des Moines . The Jimerson home and garden became a gathering place for other editor in chief and writers to farm , shoot and observe newfangled miscellanea and especially the AAS award - gain plants . Doug and Karen were the editorial force play of Garden.com , one of the first gardening tocopherol - commerce byplay in the 1990 ’s , where they frequently wrote about and sell AAS Winners . As the years progress , Doug and Karen are retain their writing work via Studio G , a creative agency they organise that specializes in garden , dearie and food for thought editorial .
" The goal of every garden diarist is to help make home gardener successful . That ’s why I ’ve expend much of my calling promoting AAS award winners . Because these plant have do well in trial garden across North America , I can be sure-footed that my readers will have success , too " , says Doug Jimerson .
" We have grown All - America Selections winner in our gardens for more than 30 years . It ’s exciting to see the blossom and vegetable varieties become popular , exhibit up in garden across the state " , says Karen Weir - Jimerson .
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