UW News

February 7, 2002

UW landscape team takes prize at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show

Left to right, Landscape Architecture Professor Daniel Winterbottom and students David Knight, Michael Dalquist and George Wittren put the finishing touches on the UW’s prize-winning exhibit at the Northwest Flower & Garden show. The UW project, titled “Throwaway Spaces: Building Community Through Urban Gardens,” took the huge show’s highest honors: the Founder’s Cup and Sunset Western Living Award. The student-designed display imagines the results of immigrants bringing different cultural backgrounds to revitalize derelict urban spaces, using found objects and recyclable materials. It features a bamboo-lined waterfall, Mexican style plaza and Ukokkei hens (traditionally believed to have curative properties). The annual show — one of the nation’s largest — occupies 8 acres of the Washington State Convention Center in downtown Seattle through Sunday.