2009 Garden Verse Awards

These are the 2009 Garden Verse Award winners, and the titles of their winning entries. Watch for Debra S. Sanders winning poem, Happy Old Gardener, in a print edition of Horticulture.

Published Jan 11, 2010 12:01 AM PST

First Place - $250 cash prize and poem printed in an issue of Horticulture

Debra S. Sanders

Happy Old Gardener

Second Place - $100 cash prize

Carolyn L. Mathews

Wearing Irene's Gloves

Third Place - $50 cash prize

A. Louise Staman

Georgia Simmer

Honorable Mention

Mary Gray

Beginnings

Madelyn Edelson

Toward Home

Jenny Doughty

Trilliums

Diane Hovey

To Know Love

Amber Henson

Three

Kimberly O'Connor

One April