The American Horticultural Society’s 2016 Landscape Design Award will be presented to Carol R. Johnson, founder and chairman emeritus of Carol R. Johnson Associates of Boston, Massachusetts.  The award is given to an individual whose work has demonstrated and promoted the values of sound horticultural practices in the field of landscape architecture.  Carol has been a landscape architect for more than 50 years.  Among her notable projects are the redesign of the Mystic River Reservation and the creation of urban parks such as John Marshall Park in Washington, DC.  She taught landscape architecture at her alma mater, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and has lectured at other universities in the US and abroad.  She is a trustee for the Hubbard Educational Trust, founded to further education in landscape architecture throughout the United States.

The award will be given on Thursday, June 2 during the Banquet at River Farm, the AHS headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia.  To attend, visit www.ahs.org/awards, or call 703-768-5700.