The Garden Media Guild Awards 2009

The Garden Media Guild Awards celebrate the best in garden writing - including books, newspapers and magazines - photography, broadcasting - TV and radio - and new media - including gardening websites and gardening blogs. They are the garden media 'Oscars'.

 

New Talent, Young Gardener & Environmental Awards

 

Environmental Award

Winner: Toby Buckland for the Gardeners’ World Special – For Peat’s Sake.

Finalists:
Graham Strong for his article The Recycled Kitchen Garden in Kitchen Garden magazine.
Sophie Todd, producer of the BBC2 TV programme Wild About Your Garden – Episode 3, Dundee.
John Walker for We Shop, Planet Drops in Organic Garden & Home.
Louise Zass-Bangham for Designing for the Inevitable, published in Garden Design Journal.

 

New Garden Media Talent of the Year

Joint winners:
Mary Griffin for various features, written as Environment Reporter, in the Coventry Telegraph.
Stephanie Mahon for various interview features on gardens and their owners in The English Garden.

Finalists:
Mary Maher for salads and vegetable trial features in The Garden.
David Patch for Dave and Jon’s Gardening Calendar – a weekly podcast.
Jack Sidders for Can garden centres cash in on bees in Horticulture Week.
James Wong for the BBC television series Grow Your Own Drugs.

 

The Young Gardener Initiative Award

Winner: The Great Plant Hunt – a pack of materials for schools by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.

Finalists:
Allotment Life Back to School by Jane Moore in Gardeners’ World Magazine.
Helping to Encourage A Growing Passion by Lucy Redman in Suffolk Magazine.
Wildlife Garden by Martyn Cox – the RHS book published by DK Publishing and the associated article in The Mail on Sunday.

 

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