Photo: Garden by Gartenwerk sander.schumacher.gmbh.co.kg; Copyright: www. Tim Koegler.de
Callwey Verlag, together with G+L and other partners, is once again looking for the Gardens of the Year 2024 this year. The competition honors the most beautiful private gardens in German-speaking countries. Products and garden photographs will also be awarded prizes.
At the request of the participants, the submission deadline for entries has been extended from July 5 to 20.
For the ninth time, Callwey Verlag is presenting the country’s most important private garden award, together with its partners bdla Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten, BGL Bundesverband Garten-, Landschafts- und Sportplatzbau e. V., DGGL Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gartenkunst und Landschaftskultur, ÖGLA – Österreichische Gesellschaft für Landschaftsarchitektur, BSLA – Bund Schweizer Landschaftsarchitekten und Landschaftsarchitektinnen, GALABAU Garten- und Landschaftsbauverband Österreich, Jardin Suisse – GaLaBau-Verband der Schweiz, Mein schöner Garten, Gartenpraxis, GÄRTEN and us – the G+L. As part of the Gardens of the Year 2024 competition, landscape architects and garden and landscape builders from Germany, Austria and Switzerland can submit their most successful projects. As every year, we are looking for the 50 best private gardens in German-speaking countries, ideally those that have not yet been published in a book.
The first prize will be the subject of extensive articles in specialist magazines, including G+L, Mein schöner Garten, Gartenpraxis, Gärten, zoll+, BSLA-Journal, G’plus and GaLaBau Journal. But other offices also receive an award: the 50 best gardens are published in a comprehensive Callwey Verlag illustrated book, presented in an exhibition and honored at the official awards ceremony.
For the first time in eight years, the award ceremony will not take place at Schloss Dyck. Instead, the Gardens of the Year 2024 will be awarded in February at the Ebben tree nursery in Cuijk in the Netherlands, which Callwey Verlag was able to win as an additional partner for the competition. The 500-hectare tree nursery offers trees of all varieties and sizes – from small shrubs to avenue and park trees. There are also a large number of multi-stemmed fruit trees on a 1,400 square meter roof garden.
Several projects can be submitted for the Gardens of the Year 2024. The submission fee is 190 euros per project. Click here to register and submit.
The submitted projects will be judged by an independent jury, including
For the sixth time, the Gardens of the Year 2024 will also be looking for the best products for garden design. “Gardens of the Year – Architects’ Choice” is the award for companies that make an important contribution to the garden projects with their products. The 50 designers honored in the book nominate five projects for the award. Only this choice entitles them to participate in the Architects’ Choice Award and its online voting. The products are then linked to the projects in the book in a short presentation. Products that are not nominated by a planner can also be submitted in the “Newcomer” category. The closing date for entries for the Gardens of the Year 2024 products is October 6, 2023.
As in the previous five years, the Garden Photography of the Year is also honored. A photo series from the yearbook is selected from the top 50 gardens of the year, which stands out from the others. The criteria for this are the perspective of the garden, the general impression, the imagery, selected image details and the general representation of the garden. The winner will receive a Gardens of the Year 2024 communication package, which includes a seal, inclusion in press releases and additional highlighting in the yearbook. This prize will also be awarded at the award ceremony in February.
Here are the most important dates at a glance:
Incidentally, in 2023, Feldmann Gartenarchitektur was awarded first place for the “Erlebnisraum Garten” project in Bensheim. Landscape architect Christoph Feldmann wanted to integrate the garden of a villa on a slope into the surrounding landscape with his design. With the help of dry stone walls, lawns, raised beds, old pear trees, a pool, a fire ring and a greenhouse, each section of the garden has its own atmosphere. You can read more about last year’s gardens and the winning garden here: Gardens of the Year 2023.
The yearbook of 2023:
Dieter Kosslick / Konstanze Neubauer
Gardens of the year
The 50 best private gardens of 2023
2023. 320 pages, over 350 color illustrations and plans
23 x 30 cm, hardcover
€ [D] 59.95; € [A] 61.70; sFr. 80.00
ISBN: 978-3-7667-2607-0
