PAST HORTICULTURIST OF THE YEAR (HOTY) AWARD WINNERS

2024     Nancy Goslee Power
2023     Richard Schulhof (no recording available)
2022     Dave Fross (no recording available)
2021     Posthumous awards to Bill Baker, John Dourley, and Virginia Hayes (click for link to recording)
2020     Posthumous awards to Dara Emery, Denis Kurutz, and Manny and Bert Singer (click for link to recording)
2019     Mike Evans (click for link to recording)
2018     John Schoustra
2017     Randy Baldwin
2016     Carol Bornstein
2015     Kathy Musial
2014     Donald R. Hodel
2013     Dave Lannom
2012     Richard Turner
2011     Gilbert Resendez
2010     Yvonne Savio
2009     Laurel Woodley
2008     Shirley Kerins
2007    Tom Carruth
2006     James P. Folsom
2005     Bart O'Brien
2004     Joan De Fato
2003     Virginia Gardner
2002     John Greenlee
2001     John R. (Dick) Dunmire
2000     Scott Wilson
1999     Bob Perry
1998     Harold Lachs
1997     Ernest Hetherington & Lili Singer
1996     Don Walker
1995     Robert Smaus
1994     George Harman Scott
1993     Harlan Lewis
1992     Chris Rosmini
1991     Gary Hammer
1990     Elmer Lorenz
1989     Paul Hutchinson
1988     Grace Heintz
1987     Ruth Shellhorn
1986     Morgan (Bill) Evans
1985     Leonid Enari
1984     Fred Lang
1983     John Catlin
1982     Barbara Joe Hoshizaki
1981     David Verity
1980     Horace Anderson
1979     Myron Kimnach
1978     Philip E. Chandler
1977     Edward Hummell
1976     Bill Paylen
1975     Sanford Martin
1974     Harry Johnson
1973     Maria Wilkes
1972     Victoria Padilla
1971     Nuccio's Nursery
1970     Betty Marshall & Donald P. Woolley
1969     Howard Asper
1968     James Giridlian
1967     no award
1966     Valley Knudsen
1965     Lovell Swisher
1964     Fred Roewekamp & Ralph Cornell
1963     Dr. Mildred Mathias (first award dinner)
1962    Samuel Ayres
1952    Theodore Payne

 Past award winners (dates unknown)
           William Hertrich
            Hugh Evans
            Edward O. Orpet
            Percy Everett