All - America Selections late honored two iconic journalists with the AAS Medallion of Honor at the one-year AAS / NGB Awards Banquet . This twelvemonth ’s banquet was held 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 metre - honored solemnisation where manufacture instance , justice , breeders , growers , retailers and resellers accumulate for the annual AAS and NGB Summer Summit . This year ’s result was held for the first - clip ever in concurrence with the annual PPA symposium .
The 2019 event 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 lay out to one somebody who has give a lifelong inscription to the procession of horticulture and part in raise the visibility of All - America Selections Winners .
All - America Selections announce that for the first clock time ever , the 2019 Medallion of Honor was chip in 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 started his career at Better Homes & Gardens in 1976 and work his mode up to executive garden editor program , serve that publication for more than three decades . As a freelance author , Karen is the author of infinite magazine stories and Scripture , include 15 in the Better Homes and Gardens stigma . Together , this active duo plant the first Better Home and Gardens Test Garden at their family farm outside Des Moines , Iowa . That garden is now situate at the Meredith headquarters in downtown Des Moines . The Jimerson home and garden became a assemble space for other editor in chief and writers to grow , photograph and observe new mixed bag and specially the AAS award - win plant . Doug and Karen were the editorial force of Garden.com , one of the first gardening e - commerce business organisation in the 1990 ’s , where they frequently wrote about and sold AAS Winners . As the years progress , Doug and Karen are continuing their writing work via Studio G , a creative agency they formed that specialise in garden , pet and food for thought editorial .
" The finish of every garden journalist is to help make home gardeners successful , " says Doug Jimerson . " That ’s why I ’ve spend much of my career promoting AAS award achiever . Because these flora have performed well in tribulation garden across North America , I can be sure-footed that my readers will have success , too . "
" We have rise All - America Selections winners in our gardens for more than 30 years , " say Karen Weir - Jimerson . " It ’s exciting to see the flush and vegetable varieties become popular , showing up in gardens across the nation . "
