“The Landscape Design Council only offers this award to people in the field who truly deserve recognition, and Paul Rogers more than qualifies,” said Adriana F. M. O’Sullivan, LDC vice chairman, who presented Rogers with the award at the annual meeting of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts. “Of all Paul’s accomplishments in the field of landscape design and horticulture, the most significant from the point of view of the Landscape Design Council is the horticultural knowledge that he has passed along to countless gardeners over the years and continues to share with eager students.”

In his role as horticultural consultant, Rogers advises on a wide range of projects, such as Old Sturbridge Village, Worcester’s Municipal Park and recreation facilities and numerous residential properties. As an educator, he lectures at the Landscape Institute (formerly the Radcliffe Seminars Graduate Program in Landscape Design), the Arnold Arboretum, and the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He also teaches at the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts’ Landscape Design School and Gardening Study School, where he is a great favorite with students.

For 20 years Rogers served as the landscape superintendent at Holy Cross, whose campus is a registered arboretum that has won national landscaping awards. He is past chairman of the board of trustees of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, past president of the Worcester County Horticultural Society (which awarded him the Director’s Silver Medal), and past president of the Horticultural Club of Boston.