The horticultural ‘Oscars’
22 November 2019
The horticultural ‘Oscars’
The horticultural ‘Oscars’ highlight gardening as a force for good
Eliminating plastics from our gardens, the social prescribing of gardening and the leafy love affair of millennials and their houseplants, were just some of the varied subjects being championed by gardening’s greatest influencers, at this year’s horticultural ‘Oscars’ – the Garden Media Guild Awards.
The Garden Media Guild Awards Lunch is one of the biggest events of the horticultural calendar for those who tweet, write, blog, photograph and broadcast about one of the nation’s favourite pastimes.
Held at The Savoy, London, Thursday’s (21 November) event was attended by more than 350 of gardening’s great and good. The event has 15 sponsors including Westland as headline sponsor.
The 18 Award categories attract entries from the UK’s leading gardening trend-setters from the new, blossoming stars of social media, through to the evergreen, celebrated garden writers and broadcasters.
This year’s Award winners included Sally Chandler who won Social Media Influencer of the Year for Beth’s Chatto’s Plants & Gardens website. Sally has created a celebration of the life of one of the UK’s greatest gardeners and has used excerpts from Chatto’s Notebook to compare the garden then and now, with beautiful up-to-date images illustrating the plantswoman's inspiring words.
The winner of Practical Journalist of the Year was won by gardening national treasure Alan Titchmarsh for his articles for BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine, including those on creating plants for free and advice on how to grow super spuds!
The prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award was this year presented to a doyenne of gardening - presenter and plant guru, Carol Klein (pictured with Roy Lancaster) whose natural, down-to-earth approach has made her a popular and trusted figure among the British public over the last 30 years.
The inaugural Beth Chatto Environmental Award was scooped by Sally Nex for her writing on plastic-free gardening in The Garden magazine.
Co-Chair of the Garden Media Guild, Constance Craig Smith, said: “It’s fantastic that so many of this year’s winning entries highlight the force for good that gardening can bring and across such a diverse range of platforms, from social media, vlogs and blogs to TV programmes and long-standing print magazines. The entire world of gardening media is in a wonderful position to highlight the increasing social, environmental and health benefits gardening, plants and being engaged with nature, can offer to everyone whatever their age.”
The 2019 winners are:
You can see all the winners, finalists and judges' comments here
For further information, please contact Emma Mason, 07762 117433, Jane Southcott, 07787 527430. or GMG Admin.
Notes to Editors
The Garden Media Guild brings together professional garden writers, authors, photographers, broadcasters, editors, lecturers and allied trades. The Garden Media Guild’s aims are to raise the quality of garden writing, photography and broadcasting through a programme of training, workshops and events, including our annual Awards Lunch, and to keep our members up-to-date with events in the world of horticulture, through our website and social media, quarterly magazine and e-bulletins.
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