Kitchener in Bloom

Each year the City of Kitchener along with community partners encourages residents and businesses to take pride in Kitchener and beautify our community through the Kitchener in Bloom which includes three components:

Residential Front Yard Award
Environmental Award
Business Award

Residential Front Yard Bloom Award recognizes residents who help make our community a beautiful place. All nominated properties will receive a certificate recognizing their contribution to making Kitchener beautiful. This year, over 60 properties will receive a special bloom award. Properties owners will be invited to a Kitchener in Bloom celebration in September.

Congratulations to the 2009 residential property Bloom Award selections.

Environmental Recognition Award program recognizes those that practice environmental solutions while maintaining beautiful lawns and gardens.
With the reality of water conservation and pesticide by-laws some residents question how it’s possible to have a beautiful garden and still follow watering restrictions and environmental practices. The award recognizes the use of drought resistant plant material, native plant species and compliance with watering restrictions and pesticide free lawns and gardens.
This year, special environmental recognition will be given to deserving properties at the September finale.

Business Award program honours businesses that make a contribution to the visual quality of Kitchener through the beauty of their property. There are three categories in which businesses can be nominated:

Large Scale Business (road view frontage larger than 5000 sq. ft.) – includes neighbourhood retail, community or regional chopping centres, Big Box retail, office buildings and corporate developments, hotels, and industrial properties.
Small Scale Business (road view frontage up to 5000 sq. ft.) – includes small frontage locations of individual retail or commercial service properties such as retail stores, shops, restaurants, taverns, service stations and small offices.
Multi-residential - townhouse, condominium or apartment developments (more than three units), private nursing homes or residential care facilities.

Note: Government properties and Places of Worship are not eligible.
Congratulations to the 2009 Business Award selections.

Criteria Selection

Category nominations are evaluated by a panel of local business and municipal judges, including members of the Horticultural Society, Landscape Ontario and Kitchener Master Gardeners.

Properties are evaluated on the following:

Contribution to the neighbourhood “curb appeal” (perspective viewed from the adjacent municipal roadway(s));
Design features including originality of design, proportion and scale, coordination and harmony of colour, surface treatment (appropriate and varied);
Maintenance and horticulture practices including healthy plant life, good up-keep, cleanliness
Special features, highlights or extraordinary effort;
Compliance with watering restrictions and pesticide free lawns and gardens.
Environmental considerations also include use of drought resistant plant material and native plant species.

Kitchener in Bloom Continuation Form