GardenComm reveals 2025 Laurel Media Award winners
GardenComm: Garden Communicators International has announced the recipients of its 2025 Laurel Media Awards, honoring excellence in horticultural communication.
Now in its third decade, the international competition drew more than 125 entries across approximately 40 categories, underscoring the depth and vitality of modern garden communications.
This year’s Gold and Silver Laurel winners represent achievements in digital media, photography, publishing, speaking and broadcast, writing and marketing. Award highlight include: Filoli Historic House & Garden’s podcast “Morning in the Garden” earned Gold Laurels for both Outstanding Episode and Series, while renowned photographer Rob Cardillo took top honors in the Photography category for Private Gardens of Philadelphia. In the Writing – Book (General Readership) category, Teresa J. Speight was recognized for “Black Flora – Inspiring Profiles of Floriculture’s New Vanguard.” In a new Fiction Book category, Canadian author Sonia Day received a Gold Laurel for “The Newfoundland Lunch Party: A Sisters of the Soil Novel with Recipes.” Additional honorees include award-winning blogs, books, videos, newsletters and trade magazines from across North America and the UK.
“Winning a Laurel Media Award is more than a professional milestone — it’s a celebration of the passion, expertise, and imagination that define our community,” said GardenComm president C.L. Fornari. “These awards spotlight individuals who are advancing the conversation around gardening and horticulture in creative and meaningful ways.”
The 2025 award winners were celebrated during the Awards & Honors Ceremony on July 11 at GardenComm’s Gather & Grow Tour Mega Connect Meetup, held during Cultivate’25.
View the full list of Gold and Silver Laurel Media Award winners at: info.gardencomm.org/2025-laurels-media-award-winners.
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