2013 Mike Kenton Awards go to Mike Jameson & Richard Moyroud

The Florida Association of Native Nurseries (FANN) is pleased to announce that Mike Jameson of Native Green Cay Nursery and Richard Moyroud of Mesozoic Landscapes have been chosen to receive FANN’s Mike Kenton Award of Recognition for 2013.

This is FANN’s highest award for members who have provided exceptional service to the native plant industry for many years. FANN decided to honor both Richard Moyroud and Mike Jameson this year. Both pioneering native nurserymen were nominated, and considering their history as founding members of FANN, past board members, and co-editors of the still best-selling Guide to Xeric Landscaping with Florida Native Plants, the Awards Committee elected to present both with the award in this same year.

Presentation of the awards will occur at 6:00pm, Thursday, April 4, 2013 at Osceola Heritage Park (OHP), Kissimmee (the site of The Native Plant Show). The awards presentation will occur at an invitation-only evening reception being held on the OHP grounds. FANN expects as many as 100+ people to be present, including FANN member exhibitors and sponsors of the show, as well as landscape professionals attending the show’s CEU classes.

Upon receiving notice of his award, Richard Moyroud responded to us in his typically wise and gracious way:
The native nursery/landscape/restoration/consulting industry is certainly growing, and depends on competent, committed people, such as those who have brought us this far. Our greatest challenge is educating the consumers, who are often swayed by images of landscapes which never succeed in Florida. FANN publications and programs are the primary source of facts and professional contacts; we thank FANN for continuing this unique resource, and hope that the simple common sense of native landscapes become the standard rather than the exception.