The winners were honored during the PGMS 2006 School of Grounds Management that was held in the conjunction with the Green Industry Exposition in Columbus, Ohio Nov. 1-4.

The Green Star Awards program brings national recognition to grounds maintained with a high degree of excellence, complimenting other national landscape award programs that recognize outstanding landscape design and construction. This year’s program acknowledged the nation’s top manicured grounds in settings ranging from parks to apartment complexes to cemeteries. Overall, PGMS presented 14 Grand Awards, its highest honor, as well as 12 Honor Awards in a dozen categories of competition. The Sunshine and Golden states dominated the competition, as 12 of the winners were facilities located in California or Florida.