Festival | 2012 Edition
June 23 to September 30, 2012
The International Garden Festival is pleased to announce the names of the designers selected by the jury for the 13th edition of the Festival. Five projects were selected to be featured at the 2012 edition that will exhibit a record 25 conceptual gardens. The 13th edition of the Festival will open on Saturday, June 23, 2012.
List of gardens for the 2012 edition
The competition attracted 158 proposals for contemporary gardens submitted by over 350 architects, landscape architects, designers and artists from 23 countries. All of the submissions can be viewed here.
The jury members were: Pierre Bélanger, Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University and designer for the 2004 edition of the Festival, François Leblanc, technical coordinator of the International Garden Festival, Paula Meijerink, director of the École d'architecture de paysage, Université de Montréal, and designer for the 2003 and 2004 editions of the Festival, Franck Michel, director of the Musée régional de Rimouski, and Alexander Reford, director of Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens and the International Garden Festival.
The International Garden Festival is the leading contemporary garden festival in North America. Presented since 2000, the Festival has exhibited more than 130 gardens on the festival site as well as extra-mural gardens in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, France, Italy and the United Kingdom. As part of the 2012 Festival, a new extra-mural garden will be presented in London, England, as part of inaugural edition of Chelsea Fringe.
The International Garden Festival is presented with the financial assistance of many public and private partners: Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Tourisme Québec, Canada Summer Jobs, Emploi-Québec, Canada Blooms, Landscape Ontario and IIDEX/Neocon.
The sponsors of the 13th edition are: Premier Horticulture, Groupe Germain, Miellerie Tête en Fleurs and Pépinière Charlevoix.
Hydro-Québec has been a major partner of Les Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens since 1999 and is the lead sponsor of the 13th edition of the International Garden Festival.
