Winners awarded!

Nine happy winners from seven countries have been awarded during the ceremony at Schloss Dyck on the 24th June 2022. Category “Protection or Development of a Cultural Landscape”: 1st Prize: Urbancows Category “Special Award of the International Jury”: 1st Prize: Jardins de la Paix Category “Climate Mitigation Measures in Parks and Gardens”: 1st Prize: Enghaveparken…

Open Call for Nominations EGA 2022

Following the successful Open Call last year, you are now invited to nominate candidates for the European Garden Award 2022 in these four categories: – Design or concept of a contemporary park or garden– Management or development of a historic park or garden– Protection or development of a cultural landscapeand – new in 2022 ––…

Successful meeting of the jury

The international jury for the European Garden Award decided on the winners of the 1st and 2nd prizes among this year’s nominations in a video meeting. Numerous external nominations from the Open Call, which was carried out for the first time, were also taken into account. Winners also resulted from this group. In each of…

In memoriam: Alan Thornley

It is with great sadness that we bid farewell to Alan Thornley, Chairman of the European Garden Heritage Network EGHN, who died far too early and unexpectedly at home in England on 8 October 2020. Alan Thornley had taken over the chairmanship of the European Garden Heritage Network at its first meeting in 2003 and…

Open Call for Nominations

Since 2010 the European Garden Award has been granted to almost 100 parks, gardens and organisations across Europe. Most nominations have been made by the international jury but by several externals too. Corona caused a break and thus the next awards will be handed out in June 2021. We decided to use this extra time…

New EGHN partners in 2020

We are happy to announce that two organisations decided to bring a garden and a garden landscape as new partners into the EGHN. The Merian Gärten (image) in Basel are the first garden to join from Switzerland. Merian Gärten won an European Garden Award (2nd Prize) in 2019, in particular for their high-class programme for…