The 2026 AAS Landscape Design Winners
All-America Selections’ 2026 Landscape Design Challenge embraced the warm fuzzies this year with a theme of “The Goodness of Gardening…Using AAS Winners.”
For the challenge, AAS provides the gardens with recent AAS Winner seeds and plants. The gardens have the option to incorporate older AAS Winners in their design to illustrate the theme. Gardens were encouraged to hold educational events to share the story of All-America Selections and AAS Winners.
Click on any photo below to see more details about each garden’s entry in the challenge, as well as all photos from that garden.
First Place Winners
Category 1: 0-10,000 Visitors
Second Place Winners
Third Place Winners
Category 2: 10,001-100,000 Visitors
Category 1: 0-10,000 Visitors
Honorable Mentions
- Community Arboretum at Virginia Western Community College
- Cornell Cooperative Extension Oneida Co. Parker F. Scripture Botanical Gardens
- Hoke County Extension Demonstration Garden
- Green Legacy Display Garden
- Hamilton County Master Gardeners
- Mississippi State University-South Mississippi Branch Experiment Station
- William Dam Seeds
All-America Selections recognizes and thanks the contest judges who are industry experts in the field of horticulture and landscaping:
- Ron Cramer, Retired, Sakata Ornamentals and AAS Former President
- Penny Merritt-Price, Product Development Manager, Young’s Plant Farm
- Sam Schmitz, former AAS Judge and Horticulture Educator
- Teresa Watkins, NGB Member, Book Author, Designer, Radio Host and Garden Tours