Rachel Snyder Memorial Landscape Award
About the Award
The award is given to an individual or organization for a project promoting the use of native plants in the landscape.
Nomination Form
Past Winners
2011 - Betsy Knabe Roe for "Revival"/"Etain" at Bird Runner Ranch in Geary County
- Dec. 2009: Betsy Roe is commissioned to create a memorial for Jan Garton (savior of Cheyenne Bottoms).
- March 2010: Jan Garton's ashes are scattered on the prairie edge at Bird Runner Wildlife Refuge.
- Jan. 2010-August 2010: Roe clears invasive dogwood from native prairie areas and weaves the trunks and branches into 27 sculptures on an already-disturbed prairie-restoration site at the Refuge. The figures form a spiral that leads people deep into the installation. Visitors place native grass and wildflower seeds on the sculptures (in packets made of Baptisia pods held together with Louisiana sagewort): Thus, as the sculptures biodegrade, the seeds become part of the restoration of the site. The installation is named "Revival."
- March 2011: Roe creates "Etain," a ceremony within "Revival." Participants lie down on the ground, while Betsy outlines their figures with native wildflower seeds mixed with white sand.
- June 2011: Coreopsis has appears where the bodies were! Art honors restoration and merges with it.
Planting seeds at Betsy Knabe Roe's "Revival"
2008 - Meredith Fry
For her "Ichabod's Prairie Patch" garden located on the Washburn University campus in Topeka, KS.
2008 Recipient: Meredith Fry (center)
2007 - Wichita Clinic at Founders’ Circle in Wichita, KS.
Kim Shank accepts the award for the Wichita Clinic
2007 - City of Kansas City, Department of Air Quality, Clean Air Lawn Care Project in Kansas City, KS
Rollin Sachs accepts the award for the City of Kansas City, Department of Air Quality
2006 - City of Topeka, Water Pollution Control Division, Jackson Street Stormwater Improvement Project in Topeka, KS.
2004 - City of Lawrence Waste Reduction & Recycling Division, Solid Waste Annex North Facility in Lawrence, KS.
Their horticultural plantings of native wildflowers reduced water usage at the plant, beautified the facility and continues to teach others about the value of our Kansas native plants. The award was accepted by Kathy Richardson for the facility staff.
