Award Winning
Landscape Design
Landscape Awards
More than 30 years in landscape contracting! Join us as we celebrate with even more landscaping achievements, garden designing awards, and horticultural business acknowledgements. The wealth and range of these international, national, state-wide, and regional landscape awards support our claim to be one of the most award-winning Garden Design and Landscape Contracting companies in the country.
Our gold, silver, bronze medals for outdoor landscaping recognition continue to present Garden Design's philosophy of landscape design and continuous quality review to the horticultural industry. With systems in place, the residential and commercial landscape clients are better served by the attention paid to our history of quality garden landscapes. Motivated landscape contracting and maintenance employees strive to provide the service that our clients have come to expect.
Achievements, Awards and Acknowledgements
From 1992 to Present - Pennsylvania Landscape and Nursery Association:
- 37 Gold Excellence in Landscape Design Awards
- 25 Silver Excellence in Landscape Design Awards
- 13 Bronze Excellence in Landscape Design Awards
- 7 Honorable Mention Excellence in Landscape Design Awards
From 2002 to Present - Association of Professional Landscape Designers (International Award Program):
- 3 Gold Residential Landscape Design Project
- 6 Silver Residential and Commercial Landscape Design Projects
- 3 Bronze Residential Landscape Design Projects
From 1999 to Present - Perennial Plant Association (International Landscape Design Award Program):
- 5 Honor Awards for Landscape Design Excellence
- 27 Meritorious Awards for Landscape Design Excellence
From 1998 to Present - Lehigh Valley Builder's Association:
- 17 Excellence in Landscape Design Awards
From 1997 to Present - Concrete Stone and Tile Excellence in Landscape Design Awards:
- 4 First Place Awards for City and Streetscape Landscaping Design
- 1 First Place Award for Retaining Wall and Patio Landscaping Design
- 2005 - American Nursery and Landscape Association Hall of Fame Award
Joanne Kostecky - 2005 - Pennsylvania Landscape and Nursery Association Hall of Fame Award
Joanne Kostecky - 2005 - Pennsylvania Certified Horticulturist awarded by the Pennsylvania Landscape and Nursery Association to James Perna
- 2004 - Eastern Pennsylvania Business Journal
Joanne Kostecky, President-Community Spotlight Award - 2002 - Pennsylvania Landscape and Nursery Association
Kirk R. Brown, Business Manager-PLNA's Green Achiever Award for outstanding contribution to the Horticultural Industry in Pennsylvania - 2000 - Pennsylvania's Best 50 Women in Business Award
Joanne Kostecky, President Garden Design, Inc - 2000 - Working Woman Entrepreneurial Excellence in Customer Service
Joanne Kostecky, President Garden Design, Inc - 1999 - Lehigh Valley Builders Association
New Member of the Year - 1999 - Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce
Excellence in Business Award - 1994 Great Valley Girl Scout Council Woman of Distinction
Joanne Kostecky, President Garden Design, Inc
Garden Design and its garden landscapes have been featured in many regional, national and international horticultural publications:
- Woman's Day Special Edition's Gardening and Deck Design
- American Nurseryman
- Home
- The Wall Street Journal
- The New York Times
- Good Housekeeping Magazine
- This Old House
- Entrepreneur
- Pennsylvania Landscape and Nursery Association
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
- Lehigh Valley Magazine
- The Allentown Morning Call
- Lehigh Valley Style
- Lehigh Valley Marketplace
- Kiplinger Magazine
- Elan of Fairfax County
- Hunterdon County of New Jersey Life
- Lehigh Valley Living
- Lehigh Valley Natural Awakenings
On the National Speaking Circuit, Garden Design's well-recognized office staff has appeared at the following podiums:
- Garden Writer's Association International Symposia in Philadelphia, Seattle, Chicago, Raleigh, Portland, and Vancouver
- American Nursery and Landscape Association's Management Clinic in Louisville KY
- Pennsylvania Landscape and Nursery Association/Penn State Winter Nursery Conference in State College, PA
- Mid Atlantic Hardy Plant Society
- Millersville Native Plant Conference
- Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and the International Philadelphia Flower Show
- Iowa Landscape and Nursery Association
- Florida Landscape and Nursery Association
- CENTS, The Ohio Short Course
- Penn Allied Nursery Trade Show
- Landscape Contracting Ontario
- Eastern States Landscape Contractors Conference, Nova Scotia
- Genesee Nursery and Landscape Contractors Association
- Delaware Landscape and Nursery Contractors Association
- Waterloo Gardens Landscape Contracting Seminar
- Pittsburgh Garden Center
- Manorview Nursery and Landscape Contractors Conference, Baltimore MD
- Babikow Nursery and Landscape Contractors Conference, Baltimore MD
- Hartford CT National Federated Garden Club
- Pottstown National Federated Garden Club
- Parkland National Federated Garden Club
- Allentown National Federated Garden Club
- Federated Garden Club of Pennsylvania Eastern Region Conference
- PLANET's Student Career Days, Lansing, Michigan
- Garden Symposium, Master Gardener Program, Lancaster, PA
- Bethlehem National Federated Garden Club
- CENTS Educational Seminar/Ohio Short Course, Columbus OH
- Perennial Plant Association: Toronto, Portland OR, and Philadelphia, PA
- National Federated Garden Clubs Design Course, Carlisle PA
- Northeast Region Federated Garden Clubs Conference New Jersey
- Pennsylvania Federated Garden Club Conference, Gettysburg PA
- Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
- Monmouth Museum, Monmouth County New Jersey
- State Botanic Garden of Georgia, Athens GA
- New Jersey Landscape and Nursery Association Winter Conference, Somerset NJ
As Garden Design passes its 30th year in business, we celebrate with even more achievements, awards and acknowledgements. The wealth and range of these international, national, statewide, and regional awards support Garden Design's claim to be one of the most award-winning landscape contractors in PA and in the country. VISIT OUR AWARDS PAGE
