The Emily Seaber Parcher award (excellence in landscape design of a naturalistic garden of less than 1,000 sq. ft.) went to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society's "An Enchanted New England Woodland Walk." The exhibit transitions from a rustic backyard seating area into a woodland of interesting plants, a vernal pool, stone walls and the occasional woodland denizen.

The Massachusetts Horticultural Society (www.masshort.org), headquartered at Elm Bank in Wellesley, Mass., was founded in 1829. The society's 2015 Boston Flower & Garden Show was held March 11-15 at the Seaport World Trade Center.

The Massachusetts Horticultural Society's program, MassHort at the Flower Show, manages all the amateur competitions at the show, which is owned and run by the Paragon Group. Amateur competitions included floral design; amateur horticulture; individual house plants/horticulture exhibits; junior horticulture; Ikebana displays; miniature gardens; and photography.

The Landscape Design Council's Landscape Design Award I (excellence in landscape design of a professional garden exhibit) was an exhibit by Miskovsky Landscaping and Haskell Nursery. Designed to show you don't need a large space to create a beautiful garden, the exhibit included 100 plant varieties exhibiting varying forms, textures and colors; stone pathways with a 6'-wide granite waterwheel fountain; and a resting area festooned and roofed with plants.

The Landscape Design Award II (effective use of garden ornaments, water features, specimen trees, or topiary in creating good design) went to Magma Design Group, Inc., for the "Feathers and Wedges." The exhibit uses stone in artful ways. Designed to demonstrate wall building, stone shaping and granite splitting, the exhibit also included finished stone pieces like a stunning arch that drips water from the top, creating a curtain of droplets in front of a vertical backdrop of ferns.