Congratulations to the 2024 Monarch Award recipients! Since 2016 the Monarch Awards have recognized and celebrated Hamilton’s ecological and native-plant gardeners. This year there were 26 applicants. Twenty one gardens… Read more »
Congratulations to the 2022 recipients of Hamilton’s Monarch Awards garden recognition program. Out of 24 applicants, six will receive a full Monarch Award and eleven will receive a Caterpillar level… Read more »
It’s been nine days since the Monarch Award deadline and the emails have been checked, latecomers accomodated, and applications coded. We have a total of 42 gardeners looking to receive… Read more »
New post on the Pollinators Paradise Blog featuring the garden of Nadia Coakes, first runner-up in the 2018 Monarch Awards. https://www.hamiltonpollinatorparadise.org/blog/nadias-garden-monarch-awards-finalist
Here’s another excellent article from Beatrice Ekoko at the Pollinators Paradise Project. To our knowledge none of the entrants in the 2016 Monarch Awards encountered trouble with bylaw enforcement. But… Read more »
for immediate release Hamilton– First-ever Monarch Awards for the cultivation of pollinator-friendly, sustainable gardens: Winner announced! Hamilton’s first-ever Monarch Awards competition has a winner! Kirkendall resident Glenn Barrett has received… Read more »
2016 TOP TEN FINALISTS Glenn and Kim Barrett Margaret Juraj Jane Koopman Susan Noakes Peter Queck Tanya Ritchie (Cathy Swenson) Amy Taylor Jocelyn Weatherbe Kerri Withers The judges have made… Read more »
One of our Monarch Award entrants was profiled in Kathy Renwald’s column in today’s Hamilton Spectator. Margaret Juraj’s bit of garden paradise made the Monarch’s “top ten” list. It’s great… Read more »
The judges have evaluated the questionnaires and looked at the photos submitted by our 49 entrants. Now they’re going out to visit the gardens in person. If your garden was… Read more »