Awards & Memberships
Over 30 awards since 2001: Froschkönig/BIOTOP Design Award, TASPO Awards, Gärten des Jahres, State Prize of Honour and more – plus memberships and press.
Over 30 awards since 2001
For more than two decades, our work has regularly been honoured – from swimming pond design and company gardens to apprenticeship training. We are also listed in the most important industry and premium directories.
Every one of these awards is a team achievement: designers who support one another, qualified site management, the master gardeners, journeymen and apprentices on site – and the maintenance team that keeps the gardens in shape for years through drought, snow damage and hail. The State Prize of Honour for apprenticeship training belongs to everyone too: from trainer Rupprecht von Sigriz and the office to everyone in the company who teaches an apprentice something. When Balbina and Ludwig Fuchs stand on a stage, they accept the awards on behalf of more than 70 people.
Gärten des Jahres 2027: among the 50 most beautiful private gardens
One of our gardens was chosen by the jury of the Callwey competition Gärten des Jahres as one of the 50 most beautiful private gardens 2027 and will be published in the book of the same name. Two more of our gardens are on the longlist and will each appear in the book with a picture and key facts.
On the longlist are The competition is the most significant in German-speaking horticulture: a panel of experts chooses from hundreds of entries. Three gardens in one year – one of them among the best 50 – is the best result we have had there so far.
And it is the same garden that was a finalist at the TASPO Awards 2026 in the category Best Landscaping Project Private Garden (see next section). One garden, two of the industry's most important awards in the same year – that has never happened to us before.
We would like to thank the clients who entrusted this garden to us – and the team that built it and has maintained it for years.
TASPO Awards 2026: finalists twice
At the gala on 30 October 2026 at the Grand Hyatt Berlin, we were among the finalists with two projects: “Wo die Wiese beginnt” in the category Best Landscaping Project Private Garden and the Firmengarten Müller Sonnenschutz (“Wo Licht und Schatten tanzen”) for the BGL Award Best Landscaping Project Company Garden. Others won this year – but being among the best landscaping projects in Germany twice is recognition enough for us. Both project presentations to the jury: TASPO Awards 2026 shortlist.
“Wo die Wiese beginnt” is the same garden that ranks among the 50 most beautiful private gardens in Gärten des Jahres 2027. Its project page: Wo die Wiese beginnt. We will show pictures of the finished garden as soon as the book has been published.
State Honorary Award 2026: exemplary apprenticeship training
In 2026, the Bavarian State Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Tourism once again honoured us for exemplary apprenticeship training in landscape gardening – for the third year in a row after 2024 and 2025, and the fourth time overall (first in 2021). What this means in everyday practice is explained on our careers page.
We have been nominated for the Bavarian Mittelstand Award 2026 – a recognition that reaches beyond the gardening sector and looks at the business as a whole. We will report on the decision here as soon as it has been made.
Photos from the gala and side banner: Andreas Schwarz and Fabio Spitzenberg / TASPO Awards
As early as 2008, the most important industry award in German horticulture went to us – presented on 7 November 2008 in the ballroom of the Grand Hyatt in Berlin, in front of 500 representatives of the green industry. The award went to a Feng Shui garden in the Tegernsee valley with watercourses, bridges, terracing and a swimming pond – realised by company head Fred Fuchs with designer Jürgen McClanahan. In the same year, we were finalists in three further categories: website, environmental friendliness and Entrepreneur of the Year.
In 2025 came the second win – this time for the best company garden. A private garden and a company garden, 17 years apart: the same jury was convinced by both.
| Year | Award |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Top 100 designers in the Callwey competition “Gärten des Jahres” – 3rd place in the overall ranking of all participating designers (as of October 2026) |
| 2026 | Bavarian State Honorary Award for exemplary apprenticeship training in landscape gardening – for the third time in a row |
| 2026 | Bavarian Mittelstand Award – nominated |
| 2026 | TASPO Awards – finalist in two categories: “Wo die Wiese beginnt” (Best Landscaping Project: Private Garden) and the Müller Sonnenschutz company garden “Wo Licht und Schatten tanzen” (BGL Award, Best Landscaping Project: Company Garden); gala on 30 October 2026 in Berlin |
| 2026 | Gärten des Jahres – longlist with two gardens: “Gräser und Geometrie” in Unterwössen and the sloping garden in Tutzing |
| 2025 | State Honorary Award – exemplary apprenticeship training in landscape gardening |
| 2025 | Verband Garten-, Landschafts- und Sportplatzbau Bayern – certificate for the association's 60th anniversary (3 November 2025) |
| 2025 | Modiform Award – winner: Gärtner von Eden eG, our network (48 companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland) |
| 2025 | TASPO Award / BGL Award – winner “Best Landscaping Project: Company Garden” with the “Grüne Visitenkarte” (Rudolf Group, Geretsried); category awarded for the first time under the patronage of the Bundesverband GaLaBau, presented on 27 October 2025 in Berlin by BGL President Thomas Banzhaf |
| 2025 | Gärten des Jahres – nominated and featured in the book |
| 2024 | State Honorary Award – exemplary apprenticeship training |
| 2024 | BIOTOP Design Award – 3rd place (Living Pool & “Gumpe”, Hotel Bergeblick, Bad Tölz) |
| 2024 | Gärten des Jahres – longlist |
| 2024 | Business Award of the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen |
| 2023 | BIOTOP “Platin Star Partner” – 30 years of partnership |
| 2023 | Peter Petrich Sustainability Award |
| 2023 | Gärten des Jahres – featured |
| 2022 | Gärten des Jahres – private garden “Seeblicke” |
| 2021 | State Honorary Award – exemplary apprenticeship training (presented at our company because of Covid) |
| 2021 | Froschkönig – 3rd place “most installations built” |
| 2018 | Goldener Froschkönig – 1st place “most installations built”; Design-Froschkönig – nominated 3 times (swimming pond, Living Pool, conversion & renovation) |
| 2018 | Biotop Honorary Award for the long partnership |
| 2018 | Winner of the Biotop cover photo shoot |
| 2017 | Goldener Froschkönig – 1st place “highest number of installations built”; Design-Froschkönig – 2nd place “conversion & renovation” |
| 2016 | Gärten des Jahres – featured in the first book of the Callwey competition; we have taken part in the competition continuously ever since |
| 2017 | Pondy Award – “Private Natural Pools” |
| 2017 | Pondy Award – “Touristic Swimming Ponds” |
| 2016 | Froschkönig – Design |
| 2015 | Froschkönig – Gold |
| 2015 | Top training company (Initiative für Ausbildung) |
| 2014 | Froschkönig – Gold |
| 2013 | Froschkönig – Gold |
| 2012 | Froschkönig – Gold |
| 2008 | TASPO Award – winner “Garden Designer of the Year” (also 3× finalist: website, environmental friendliness, Entrepreneur of the Year) |
| 2008 | Froschkönig – Gold |
| 2007 | Froschkönig – Gold |
| 2005 | Froschkönig – Bronze |
| 2004 | Froschkönig – Silver |
| 2003 | Froschkönig – Gold |
| 2002 | Froschkönig – Bronze |
| 2001 | Froschkönig – Tin |
The “Froschkönig” is the design award of BIOTOP, the world market leader in swimming ponds (today the “BIOTOP Design Award”).
Memberships & partners
We are rooted in strong networks and work with carefully selected premium partners – including the premium network Gärtner von Eden, the world market leader in swimming ponds BIOTOP (partner since 1993, over 440 installations built) and the Verband Garten- und Landschaftsbau Bayern (the Bavarian landscape gardening association).
Press & profiles
- Münchner Merkur – ongoing coverage (Bad Tölz local section)
- BGL-Bundesverband GaLaBau – report on the TASPO Award 2025
- Münchner Merkur – “Wirtschaftspreise für drei echte Familienbetriebe” (26 July 2024): award from the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen
- Gärten des Jahres / Callwey – designer profile
- CUBE Magazin – company profile and three project features: “Einmal Paradiesgarten bitte” on our oasis with a Living Pool (CUBE München 02|25), “Mit Alpenblick” on a family garden in the Alpine foothills (01|23) and “Blumen statt Rasen” on our sunken garden (01|21)
- Münchner Merkur – “Fuchs baut Gärten gewinnt BGL Award 2025” (January 2026)
- Callwey book Landschaftsarchitektur 2027 – featuring “Marina Monaco” in Munich, our temporary swimming pond in an industrial estate
- Callwey book Landschaftsarchitektur 2026 – featuring three of our projects: the “Grüne Visitenkarte” in Geretsried, the memorial garden at Iffeldorf cemetery and the village centre of Iffeldorf
- Callwey book Landschaftsarchitektur 2025 (page 154) – featuring “Gegensätze sind anziehend” in Baldham, photographed by Benjamin Klopp
Environmental commitment (past)
ÖKOPROFIT (2001–2010), joining the Umweltpakt Bayern in 2004 and EMAS certification from 2015 to 2019 – we did not renew it afterwards. We say so openly, because presenting an expired certification as a current one does more harm than good.
What these awards mean – and what they don’t
Awards are not an end in themselves. They are the only thing that gives you, as a client, an independent assessment of our work – from people who judge gardens every day and are not trying to sell us anything. So here is a quick look at who is honouring whom, and for what.
Gärten des Jahres (Callwey Verlag)
Every year, the Callwey Verlag competition selects the 50 most beautiful private gardens in the German-speaking world. Entries must be completed gardens – not designs, not intentions. The jury is made up of industry experts, including the president of the federal association for garden, landscape and sports ground construction and the chief editors of “Mein schöner Garten”. Those selected are featured in the yearbook “Gärten des Jahres”.
Two terms come up again and again, and they mean different things: the longlist is the preselection – the project made it through the first round. In the book means it is one of the 50 selected gardens. On every project page we state exactly what happened, and we never turn a longlist into a win.
Landschaftsarchitektur (Callwey Verlag)
This is not “Gärten des Jahres”, even though both come from the same publisher – and it is an easy mistake to make. “Gärten des Jahres” showcases private gardens. The yearbook Landschaftsarchitektur showcases open spaces: squares, parks, company grounds, public facilities. So it is not the most beautiful garden that is judged, but design quality in public and commercial spaces.
For us, this is the more important reference when a municipality or a company gets in touch. The 2026 edition features three of our projects – the company garden in Geretsried and both sites for the municipality of Iffeldorf – and the 2027 edition features “Marina Monaco” in Munich. What we do for municipalities and businesses can be found under Urban green spaces.
TASPO Awards
The TASPO Awards are the industry prize of the trade paper TASPO, organised by Haymarket Media in Braunschweig. Here the industry judges itself – competitors, suppliers and trade journalists. It is a different perspective from Gärten des Jahres: that award is about design, while this one also looks at execution, operations and ambition. Awards are given in categories; those who reach the shortlist are in the final. The gala takes place on 30 October 2026 in Berlin – we are in the final with two projects.
Bayerischer Staatsehrenpreis
This award has nothing to do with gardens, which is why it matters to us: the Bavarian State Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Tourism uses it to honour exemplary apprenticeship training. We have received it three times in a row. For you as a client, that means the people working in your garden were trained by us – over 110 apprentices in the company’s history.
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