The SAF Gold Medal Award is awarded by the Society to the originator or introducer of a widely distributed plant or flower that has become established as an outstanding product of significant horticultural and commercial value. This award may not be given for any plant or flower within five years of its dissemination.
Nomination Deadline: May 1, 2025.
Nomination Form – Microsoft Word
Gold Medal Award Recipients
2024 – No Award Given
2023 – Deliflor Americas
2022 – Linda Laughner
2021 – Scott Trees, Ph.D.
2019 – No Award Given
2018 – Blair Winner
2017 – No Award Given
2016 – No Award Given
2015 -No Award Given
2014 -David Clark, Ph.D.
2013 -No Award Given
2012 – No Award Given
2011 – John Dolan
2010 – Forese Salviati
2009 – Jan van der Wereld (posthumously)
2008 – No Award Given
2007 – Henk van Dam
2006 – Peter Ullrich
2004 – Peter Hannaford
2003 – Raymond Oglesby
2002 – Paul Ecke, Jr.
2001 – Calvin Hayashi
2000 – Nic Zonneveld
1999 – Holtkamp Greenhouses, Inc.
1998 – No Award Given
1997 – Carl Fischer
1996 – J. Robert Oglevee1995 – E.G. Hill Company
1994 – Glenn Goldsmith, Claude Hope
1993 – Fred Berhard Winkler, William Warriner (posthumously)
1992 – Paul Ecke, Sr.
1989 – Grace Mack
1988 – Henry Motzkau, Bob Coward
1984 – Leonard Shoesmith
1983 – W. Pomeroy Thomson
1980 – William Duffett
1979 – Kent McDaniels
1978 – James Vosters
1977 – Irwin’s Greenhouses
1969 – Mikkelsen, Inc.