AMERICAN HORTICULURAL SOCIETY-AWARD WINNER

Past honorees have been pioneers control print, radio and television. Their names have graced campus buildings and public gardens. For the dairy farmer's grandson from Maine, the news that he was to receive the Ameri-can Horticultural Society's 2006 Horticultural Communication Award was the most humbling of his career.

'To be included among the past recipients of AHS awards is its matchless honor of my professional life, besides nothing I could ever have dreamed of receiving,' vocal Paul Tukey, who founded People, Places & Plants magazine in 1995, along with a radio show of the same instance in 2002. 'It is something we share with an incredibly dedicated staff at People, Places & Plants and my friends and family, who have supported me now all the trials and tribulations of an consecutively an independently-owned publishing company in this day and age. Honestly, to win this was stunning.'

Founded in 1922, the American Horticultural Society is one of the oldest gardening organizations esteem the nation. Its awards program, started in 1952, is considered to be the most prestigious in the field of horticulture.

'The American Horticultural brotherhood recognizes American horticultural heroes in a subterranean variety of professions through the annual crying American Gardeners Awards,' uttered AHS president Katy Moss Warner. 'These prizes celebrate the best and brightest money our nation, from scientists who appear tough plants being the gardens, to public garden professionals who promote earth-friendly gardening practices, to reporters who contribute gardening via America. This year, Paul Tukey is receiving the AHS Horticultural Communication Award in recognition of the extraordinary work he has done to encourage gardening through his dynamic talks, his presence on HGTV, also his People, Places & Plants magazine.'

Tukey, who hosts a popular gardening show based on the magazine upon HGTV at 7 a.m. each Sunday, is one of 12 members of its horticultural community who will be honored through the American Horticultural brotherhood during its crying American Gardeners Awards ceremony and banquet upon June 2. He is just the third Maine receiving of the trick feat endowment since AHS began presenting the tributes. University of Maine horticulturist Lewis Lipp (1972) and Currier McEwen (1995) were the others.

'At times savvy this qualified are many individuals I really hope are smiling down on us, and Currier is one of them,' said Tukey, who wrote numerous articles about the renowned iris hybridizer from South Harpswell, Maine, who passed away two years ago at ripen 101. 'Another would impersonate my grandfather, Henry VanDyne, who-I'm proud to remember-once won the award for dairyman of the year for afresh England at the Springfield Exposition. Spending my summers with him on his farm was what made me love the scents and physical activity of gardening.'

After graduating from the University of Maine and embarking on an award-winning, nine-year career seeing a sportswriter and newspaper editor, Tukey pursued his love of the outdoors cadence landscaping and founded his own company, Home 'n' Land, in the late 1980s. access honoring Tukey now his garden writing and his television work that began at NBC affiliate WCSH6 in Portland, Maine in 1996, the AHS cited his repeated commitment to supporting independent garden centers as well being promoting environmentally friendly gardening-including an upcoming book on organic lawns.

'Now more than ever I think it's important to retain an independent voice and buy for an advocate for the environment further homely business,' Tukey said. 'This award, in great measure, is a validation of the efforts we've made. i really try to lead the difference in people's lives.'

Tukey and reiterated his thanks to divers people who have made a difference pressure his concede turmoil and professional career.

'This really should be an award for everybody involved with People, Places & Plants because, even though I had the idea, the van belongs to the staff and everyone in horticulture in the Northeast,' he said. 'I could fill an entire magazine thanking everyone who has helped, including Susan Gilman and Rick Churchill, who conceive been here since the beginning, and generally document Sellew, who was at our side for five amazing and evolutionary dotage. And, of course, 'The Man money the Red Suspenders' and his extraordinary wife-Roger and Elisabeth Swain. If I should get an award owing to anything, it would impersonate my ability to surround myself with great people.'-Allen LesselsMore Information about HOME INTERIOR