Mark Cook Landscape & Contracting, of Doylestown, has nabbed the Silver Award at the 2024 Philadelphia Flower Show.
The recognition, announced Tuesday, is the Bucks County company’s second straight Silver. Its landscape exhibit accumulated the second-highest number of points in 2023 as well.
Mark Cook Landscape & Contracting is owned by Tinicum native Mark Cook, a landscape designer and artist with a degree in ornamental horticulture from Delaware Valley University.
His exhibit was Best in Show at the Pennsylvania Horticulture Society’s annual event in 2022.
This year, the company also took the PHS Gold Medal Award for best use of PHS Gold Medal Plants in a major exhibit. It also scored one of the Special Achievement Awards of the Garden Club Federation of Pennsylvania in the “Conservation over 1,000-square-feet” category.
For its exhibit, Delaware Valley University earned one of the Special Achievement Awards of the Garden Club Federation of Pennsylvania in the “Horticulture under 1,000-square-feet” category, which recognizes “exhibits of unusual excellence.”
It also won the PHS Sustainability Award, which goes to the educational exhibit that demonstrates the best use of sustainable gardening practices to the public.
“We are thrilled to recognize the creativity and innovation shown by this year’s exhibitors at the 2024 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show,” said Seth Pearsoll, PHS’s vice president and creative director of the Flower Show. “We saw out-of-the-box design concepts and we’re excited to see how these innovative, trend-setting exhibits will inspire gardeners across the country.”
The PHS Philadelphia Flower Show Cup for Best in Show (Landscape) in 2024 went to Apiary Studio, of Philadelphia. The PHS Philadelphia Flower Show Cup for Best in Show (Floral) when to Arrange Floral & Event Design, of Haddonfield N.J.
The 2024 Philadelphia Flower Show, themed “United by Flowers” continues through this weekend at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
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