
OPPORTUNITIES & AWARDS
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RNZIH awards:
Other awards:
Memorial Prize Scholarship
Purpose:
“To assist RNZIH
members who are bone fide full or part time horticultural
students with the costs of attending seminars, conferences or
workshops that are being held within New Zealand.”
The Fund:
The Memorial Prize
Scholarship is made up from a number of previous RNZIH awards.
These were: Rita Skellerup Prize, David Tannock Memorial
Prize, Dugald McKenzie Prize, Junior Memorial Prize.
Eligibility:
Any financial member
of the RNZIH who has been a member for a minimum period of one
year and who is a registered full or part time horticultural
student at an institution in New Zealand.
Conditions:
- It is expected that
the member would make a contribution towards the cost of
attending the seminar/conference/workshop to demonstrate their
commitment.
- The RNZIH will
consider applications for up to 75% of the cost of attending,
including travel, registration and accommodation.
- Successful
applicants must provide evidence of attending by way of
receipts or other papers following the event. Failure to
comply with this condition the applicant shall be liable to
refund all award moneys to the RNZIH.
- The National
Executive of the RNZIH reserves the right not to make an award
if in its opinion the application is not of sufficient merit,
or for any other reason National Executive may decide from
time to time.
Applications:
Applications should
be submitted at least two months prior to the
conference, seminar or workshop.
Peter Skellerup Plant Conservation
Scholarship
Purpose:
“To assist with the
conservation of the exotic and indigenous plant resource in
New Zealand”
Objective:
The Scholarship will
be granted for research field work, publication, propagation,
protection and/or cultivation of plants, production of
educational resources, and any other activity likely to
promote and assist the conservation of New Zealand's
indigenous and exotic plant genetic resources.
The main criterion
shall be the value of the work in conserving a plant or group
of plants, especially those that are threatened. Plants
include trees.
Eligibility:
Applicants must be
New Zealand residents or citizens. The Scholarship may involve
travel and/or study outside New Zealand. However, the work
must be of benefit to the plant genetic resource within
New Zealand.
Applications:
Applications must be
typed on the appropriate form obtained
from the Institute and lodged with the RNZIH no later
than 31 March. A synopsis of the proposed project must carry a
statement of support by an acknowledged authority on the
topic. Late applications will not be accepted.
Associate of Honour
“Persons who have
rendered distinguished service to horticulture”
For Associate of Honour
of the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture AHRIH(NZ).
This is the highest
award conferred by the RNZIH, and limited to no more than 60
individuals. Nominations are active and considered for three
years. Nominees need not be members of the Institute.
Nominations can be made by the National Executive, a
Branch, or by an elected Associate of Honour (do not approach
the person being nominated).
Nominations should
address the following headings:
- Personal;
qualifications, awards, etc.
- Horticultural
experience
- Participation in
professional organisations
- Publications
- Special conditions
indicating distinguished service to horticulture.
Closing date:
31 December each
year.
Previous
recipients
Fellow
“Members who have
made a significant contribution to horticulture by their
activities or interest in or service to horticulture”
For Fellow of the Royal
New Zealand Institute of Horticulture (FRIH).
Nominations are active
and considered for three years. Nominees should be members of
the Institute. Nominations can be made by the National Executive, a Branch, or Member (do
not approach the person being nominated).
Closing date:
31 December each
year.
Previous
recipients
Plant Raisers’ Award
Objective:
The Award is granted
to any nominated individual or organisation who has raised in
New Zealand a cultivar, or cultivars, considered to be sufficiently
meritorious. The Award shall consist of an inscribed medal.
Note:
A cultivar is a
cultivated plant which is distinguished by any characters
significant for the purposes of horticulture and which when
reproduced sexually or asexually retains its distinguishing
features.
The requirements of the
award are that:
- it should have been
raised in New Zealand
- it should have been
in cultivation for at least 3 years
- the cultivar should
ideally have been registered if it belongs to a genus registered by an
International Registration Authority.
Nominations can be made
by a Branch or by National Executive, any horticultural
organisation affiliated to RNZIH, or any incorporated
horticultural organisation.
Closing date:
31 December each
year.
Previous
recipients
Horticultural Communicator Award
Objective:
The aim of the award
is to recognise individuals who are outstanding horticultural
communicators.
This award was
established by the RNZIH from 2022.
The award is granted
to any nominated individual within New Zealand making
outstanding contributions to horticultural communication. The
award is presented as an inscribed medal. The horticultural
contributions may include written articles, book authorships,
plant photography, speaking engagements, television and radio
appearances, podcasts, and contributions to social media.
Nominations can be made
by a Branch or by National Executive, any horticultural
organisation affiliated to RNZIH, or any incorporated
horticultural organisation.
Closing date:
31 December each
year.
Previous
recipients
Garden History Award
(Award
in Horticultural History and Conservation)
Objective:
The aim of the award
is to help focus Institute support for horticultural history
and the conservation of cultivated plants, promote public
interest in horticultural history and conservation, promote
public awareness of the Institute, and encourage cooperation
with other bodies such as the Historic Places Trust.
The award is granted
to any nominated individual or organisation within New Zealand
making distinguished contributions to horticultural history and
conservation. The award is presented as an inscribed medal. The
contributions may include scholarly publications on any aspect
of horticultural history or of the development of cultivated
plants, studies on individual gardens, horticulturists or
plants, projects on the conservation of cultivated plants,
projects involving the conservation and/or restoration of
gardens or garden structures.
Nominees need not be
members of the Institute. Nominating bodies are the National
Executive, any branch or affiliate of RNZIH, any incorporated
horticultural organisation, or the Historic Places Trust or any
branch thereof.
Closing date:
31 December each
year.
Previous
recipients
Margaret Watling Scholarship
Purpose:
The purpose of this
scholarship is to assist people to undertake further study or
obtain practical experience in amenity horticulture,
ornamental horticulture, nursery management or any other
closely allied field.
Conditions:
Applicants must be
between the ages of 19 and 35. They must have been resident in
the South Island of NZ for at least two years prior to
commencement of study. They must have completed a
qualification in Horticulture or related area of study.
The value of the
award is up to $4,000. The President of the Royal New Zealand
Institute of Horticulture, or nominee, is on the Selection
Committee.
Applications:
Applications close on
the 31 March each year with:
The Scholarship
Manager, P.O. Box 85084, Lincoln University, Lincoln 7647,
Canterbury.
Link to Award details administered by
Lincoln University.
Ronald Flook Award
Objective:
The Award is to
elevate the good practice of Arboriculture, including tree
raising, tree health, management and amenity tree protection.
The recipient will have demonstrated a deep empathy with
trees, whether functional or aesthetic in any stage of
development.
This
NZ Arb Award was
established in 1994. NZ Arb have named this award
after the late Nelson based Landscape Architect Ron Flook for
his high standard of aesthetics and the effect which he creates
with trees in his landscape designs.
The successful nominee
receives the gift of a bone carving by Bill McIntyre of Blenheim
and loan of the trophy for one year together with a cheque for
$250.
Nominations should be
sent prior to 31 August each year to:
The Secretary, NZ Arb, P.O. Box 5596, Wellesley Street,
Auckland.
Loder Cup (New Zealand's premier conservation
award)
Objective:
“Offered to lovers of
nature in New Zealand to encourage the protection and
cultivation of the incomparable flora of the Dominion”
The Cup was donated by
Gerald W. Loder (later becoming Lord Wakehurst) of Sussex,
England, in 1926. The cup was to be presented to lovers of
nature in New Zealand for annual competition under such
conditions as might be approved by the Minister of Agriculture,
in whose custody the Cup was placed.
The RNZIH used to
administer the Loder Cup, before this responsibility passed on
to the Department of Conservation, with ministerial responsibility
now resting with the Minister of Conservation.
The RNZIH can submit
awardee nominations, and we have a representative on the Loder
Cup committee.
Link to Award details administered by the
Department of Conservation (DOC)
Closing date:
15 May each year.
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