Custodian Awards Winners Gallery

 

The Horticulture Week Custodian Awards celebrate the best of parks, gardens and tree management, giving gardens and green space managers working to ensure the best possible future for all kinds of green spaces, the chance to showcase their achievements, reward team effort and highlight to stakeholders the vital role they play.

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CUSTODIAN GALLERY: 2019 WINNERS

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Horticulture Week Custodian Award

Winner - David Richardson, DIrector of Horticulture, Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Planting Design (site or series of sites under three hectares in total)

Winner - Horniman Museum and Gardens for Grasslands Garden

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Tree Service of the Year

Winner - Bournemouth Parks Tree Service

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Neighbourhood Park

Winner - London Borough of Islington for Gillespie Park

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Heritage Park

Winner - Dudley MBC for Priory Park

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Grounds

Winner - The University of Winchester Campus Management Team

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Garden or Arboretum Team of the Year

Winner - Historic Royal Palaces' Hampton Court Palace gardens and estates team

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Parks Restoration or Development Project

Winner - Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council for Mary Stevens Park HLF Project

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best New Funding Initiative

Winner - Sheffield City Council, Parks and Countryside Service for Public Health Funding in Sheffield's Parks and Countryside

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Garden Restoration Project

Winner - Mount Grace Priory, English Heritage for New arts and crafts garden

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Green Space/Infrastructure Strategy

Winner - Jon Sheaff & Associates for London Borough of Croydon Natural Capital Account

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Community Health/Wellbeing Initiative

Winner - Nature's Way, Eden Project

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Garden or Arboretum (6+ staff)

Winner - Hidcote Manor Garden, National Trust

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Garden or Arboretum (1-5 staff)

Winner - Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Partnership: Third Sector (parks, gardens or tree care)

Winner - Greenbelt Group and the Woodland Trust for Glenrothes Woodlands


CUSTODIAN AWARDS CHARITY PARTNER

Custodian Gallery: 2018 Winners

David Sutton, Estate Manager - image; Howletts & Port Lympne Wild Animal Parks

Horticulture Week Custodian Award 2018

Winner - David Sutton, Estate Manager, Howletts & Port Lympne Wild Animal Parks

Image: Starbank Park

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Neighbourhood Park

Winner - Starbank Park, Edinburgh

Image: The Parks Trust

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Visitor Initiative

Winner - The Parks Trust's Linear Parks Events Programme

Image: The Parks Trust

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Volunteer Initiative

Winner - The Parks Trust's Volunteer Strategy

Image credit: ©Nurture Landscapes

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Grounds

Winner - Nurture Landscapes & Cranfield University

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Heritage Park

Winner - Victoria Park, Erewash Borough Council

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Community initiative

Winner - Walmer Castle, English Heritage & Deal-With-It for Deal Community Hop Farm

Image: Glendale

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Parks Partnership - Commercial

Winner - Glendale Lewisham Partnership

Image: The Conservation Volunteers

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Tree or Woodland Partnership

Winner - The Conservation Volunteers & OVO Energy

Image: Mid and East Antrim Borough Council

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Urban Parks Team

Winner - Mid and East Antrim Borough Council

Image: Living Wandle Landscape Partnership

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Parks Partnership, Third Sector

Winner - Wandle Valley Regional Park Trust, Living Wandle Landscape Partnership

Image: Nene Park Trust

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best urban tree initiative

Winner - Nene Park Trust

Image: Trentham Gardens

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Gardens or Arboretum Initiative

Winner - Burkes Wood and Lakeside Meadows, Trentham Gardens, St Modwen

Image: Trentham Gardens

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Gardens or Arboretum Team

Winner - Trentham Gardens & Estate Team, St. Modwen

Image: Brobury House Gardens

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Gardens or Arboretum (1-5 staff)

Winner - Brobury House Gardens

Image: National Trust

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Gardens Restoration/Development Project

Winner - Furnace Wood and Meadow, Bodnant Garden National Trust

Image credit: Steve Tattersall

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Gardens or Arboretum (+6 Staff)

Winner - West Dean Gardens

Image credit: ©Simon Jacobs

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best Parks Restoration/Development Project

Winner - Watford Borough Council


2018 Finalists

Finalists in 2017 await the Awards presentation at Woburn Abbey

Finalists for the Horticulture Week Custodian Awards 2018

Thirty-five outstanding teams and organisations were shortlisted for the Horticulture Week Custodian Awards 2018.

Custodian Awards Supporter

THE PARKS ALLIANCE

The Parks Alliance (TPA) is the voice of UK parks, representing the people and organisations that create, maintain, invest in and use the public green spaces that we are proud to have at the heart of British life. We campaign at local, regional, and UK levels to ensure that parks are properly funded, their roles recognized and developed, and that the benefits that they provide are clearly understood and recognised.

Custodian Awards Charity Partner

PERENNIAL

Perennial offers free, confidential financial and emotional advice, help and support to everyone working in or retired from horticulture and their families, including gardeners, landscapers, nursery and garden centre staff, parks and grounds care staff and tree surgeons. Many describe Perennial's services simply as a 'lifeline'. The work of the charity depends entirely on voluntary donations from the horticultural industry and the garden-loving public.

2017 Custodian Award Winners

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best heritage park

Winner - Thiepval Team, Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best tree team

Winner - Benmore botanic garden, RBG Edinburgh

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best food-growing initiative

Winner - Edible Gardening project, RBG Edinburgh

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best community/volunteer initiative

Winner - Observatree, Woodland Trust

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best gardens restoration/development project

Winner - The Bath, Bodnant Garden, National Trust

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best gardens or arboretum (six-plus staff)

Winner - Trentham Gardens, St Modwen

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best parks restoration/development project

Winner - Croome Parkland, National Trust

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best urban park initiative

Winner - a new vision for Nene Park, Nene Park Trust

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best urban parks team

Winner - Parks Service, London Borough of Islington

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best gardens or arboretum team

Winner - Woburn Gardens team, Woburn Abbey

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best urban tree initiative

Winner - iCo Green, London Borough of Islington

Horticulture Week Custodian Award Winner - Martin Towsey, Woburn Abbey

The Bedford Estates gardens manager Martin Towsey has made an outstanding contribution to horticulture during his 33 years in the profession.

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best parks partnership - third sector

Winner - Northumberlandia, the Land Trust

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best community health initiative

Winner - Countess of Chester Country Park, The Land Trust

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best gardens or arboretum (one-to-five staff)

Winner - Walmer Castle Gardens, English Heritage

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best gardens or arboretum initiative

Winner -Batsford Arboretum, The Batsford Foundation

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best parks partnership - commercial

Winner - Watford Borough Council/Veolia

(Left-to-right): Liz Turrell, Sue Coleman, Kathrin Böhm, Katherine Alker, Ted Rice  and Kiki Claxton

Horticulture Week Custodian Award - Best visitor engagement event

Winner - Brown at Work, Croome, National Trust