AHS - Press Releases March 15, 2007

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American Horticultural Society's
2007 Book Award Winners

Alexandria, VA - March 15, 2007

This year marks a decade that the American Horticultural Society (AHS) has recognized outstanding gardening books published in North America with its annual Book Award. The three recipients of the 2007 AHS Book Award are:

Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime by Kenneth I. Helphand (Trinity University Press)
Hellebores: A Comprehensive Guide by C. Colston Burrell & Judith Knott Tyler (Timber Press)
Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest by Mark Turner & Phyllis Gustafson. (Timber Press)

These books, published in 2006, were chosen from more than 40 nominations. Nominated books are judged by the AHS Book Award Committee on qualities such as writing style, authority, accuracy, design, and physical quality. The committee also looks for trailblazing topics, books that celebrate our horticultural heritage, and books that emphasize our connection to nature.

Keith Crotz, owner of American Botanist Booksellers in Chillicothe, Illinois, served as chair of the 2007 committee. Other committee members were Gene Bussell, a garden editor for Southern Living magazine in Birmingham, Alabama; Thomas Cooper of Watertown, Massachusetts, former editor of Horticulture and The Gardener magazine; Susan C. Eubank, a horticultural librarian for the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in Arcadia, California; Marty Ross, a regional contributor for Better Homes & Gardens and writer for Universal Press Syndicate who lives in Kansas City, Missouri, and in Hayes, Virginia; Marcia Tatroe of Centennial, Colorado, a writer for the Denver Post and Sunset magazine; and Marty Wingate of Seattle, Washington, a columnist for the Seattle Post Intelligencer.

The 2007 AHS Book Awards will be presented to the publishers of the winning books during the Great American Gardeners Awards Ceremony and Banquet, held on June 1, 2007, at the AHS headquarters at River Farm in Alexandria, Virginia.

For more information about the AHS’s Book Award Program, please contact Viveka Neveln at (703) 768-5700 ext. 120, or vneveln@ahs.org.
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The American Horticultural Society (AHS), founded in 1922, is an educational, non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization that recognizes and promotes excellence in American horticulture. One of the oldest and most prestigious gardening organizations, AHS is dedicated to making America a nation of gardeners, a land of gardens. Its mission is to open the eyes of all Americans to the vital connection between people and plants, to inspire all Americans to become responsible caretakers of the Earth, to celebrate America’s diversity through the art and science of horticulture; and to lead this effort by sharing the Society’s unique national resources with all Americans.

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