The APLD, an international organization whose goal is to advance the landscape design profession, calls for 2014 design award entries.

The Association of Professional Landscape Designers has announced that the 2014 International Landscape Design Awards are now accepting submissions.

The International Landscape Design Awards Program honors the best in landscape design from around the world. Entry categories include residential, non-residential, small gardens, planting design, show gardens, specialty projects and cost efficient projects. This year, the non-residential category has been split into two – projects under $500,000 and projects over $500,000.

Award recipients will receive featured coverage in, The Designer, extensive public relations dissemination, and will be honored at the APLD International Design Conference in Orlando, Florida, in November 2014.

The Student Landscape Design Awards Program, which recognizes excellent student projects in landscape design, is also accepting submissions. Student winners will be highlighted in an issue of The Designer and will receive an award at the conference in November 2014. The top student gold winner also receives a $250 scholarship.

Once again this year, the Distinctively Better???(R)???AE???? Plant Design Award, sponsored by Monrovia Growers, will be chosen from the winning entries. The award recipient will receive up to $2,000 worth of Monrovia products.

To submit a project, please click here. The deadline to submit projects is February 1, 2014. For more information about the APLD please visit apld.org.

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