Landscape Design Awards

The APLD International Landscape Design Awards Program honors excellence in landscape design. Projects in eight different categories are judged on the basis of difficulty, craftsmanship, attention to detail and execution.

Entries for 2025 are now open! Click here for more information.

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2024 Awards

2024 Landscape Designer of the Year

Katherine Field and Associates, Landscape Architects
Residential Design Project (over $100,000), Fen's Edge


2024 Best of Show

David Thorne Landscape Architect, Inc.
Design Team: David Thorne, Elise Marie Heikkinen, Kristina Kessel & Kenieffer Vargas 
Residential Design Project (over $100,000), Westside Diablo

 

WATCH THE PRESENTATION BELOW TO SEE ALL OF OUR 2024 AWARD WINNERS!

 

 

2023 Awards


2023 Landscape Designer of the Year

Prideaux Design
Residential Design Project (over $100,000), Perfect Skew


2023 Best of Show

Jim Douthit/a Blade of Grass
Residential Design Project (over $100,000), Form to Table
 
WATCH THE PRESENTATION BELOW TO SEE ALL OF OUR 2023 AWARD WINNERS!

 


2022 Awards

Click Here for the 2022 Awards Issue of The Designer Magazine

2022 Landscape Designer of the Year

Bobbie Burdick, Burdick & Associates
Specialty Project, Granny Cottage/Infinity Roof

 

2022 Best of Show

McWilliam Studio
Show Garden, Between Heaven and Earth

 
WATCH THE PRESENTATION BELOW TO SEE ALL OF OUR 2022 AWARD WINNERS!