American Horticultural Society 2020 Great American Gardeners National Award Winners: Landscape Design Award

LANDSCAPE DESIGN AWARD

Given to an individual whose work has demonstrated and promoted the value of sound horticultural practices in the field of landscape architecture.

LESLIE BENNETT

A landscape designer and writer, Leslie Bennett is the owner of Pine House Edible Gardens, an Oakland, California-based landscape design/build firm that creates aesthetic edible gardens and productive outdoor spaces. Bennett’s work entails creating culturally grounded gardens that provide as much visual inspiration as they do organic harvests of food, flowers, and medicinal herbs. Her designs have been featured in Sunset magazine, Better Homes & Gardens, Martha Stewart Living, Garden Design, C Magazine, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Gardenista.com.

She is also co-author of The Beautiful Edible Garden (Ten Speed Press, 2013).Bennett holds degrees from Harvard University, Columbia Law School, and the University College London in the fields of environmental justice, land use law, cultural property, and preservation. She lives in Oakland, California with her husband, Linval, and two children, Samuel and Zeta.