The Rose Bowl is awarded each year to the person who, in the opinion of the current GB&I Region President, has best exemplified the IPPS motto of seeking and sharing and who has done most to promote the interests of IPPS and of professionalism in plant propagation and production or ornamental horticulture more widely. The recipient may or may not be a member of IPPS.
The Rose Bowl itself was a gift to the GB&I Region from Jim Wells, the founding father of IPPS, in 1973.
List of recipients
| 1974 B.H. Howard, 1975 A.B. Macdonald 1976 A.R. Carter 1977 S.J. Haines 1978 D.N. Clark 1979 R.J. Evison 1980 P.D.A. McMillan Browse 1981 Brian Humphrey 1982 Tom Wood 1983 Robert Garner* 1984 Margaret Scott 1985 Lila W. Dick 1986 J.G.D. Lamb 1987 John B. Gaggini 1988 Michael L. Dunnett | 1989 Richard Martyr* 1990 Michael O. Farmer* 1991 John Joe Costin 1992 Janette Elizabeth Gaggini 1993 Christopher G. Lane 1994 Nicholas Dunn 1995 David D. Hutchinson 1996 Paul Brooking 1997 James C. Kelly 1998 Spence Gunn 1999 Ivan Iliev 2000 Paul Howling 2001 Margaret Sheward 2002 Dennis Fordham 2003 Duncan Travers | 2004 Philip Marie Moreau 2005 John Adlam 2006 Peter Bingham 2007 J.A. Ross Kerby 2008 Claire Shaddick 2009 Thady Barrett 2010 Peter Catt 2011 John Hedger 2012 Steen Berg 2013 Karl O'Neill 2014 Peter MacDonald 2015 Lars Rudin 2016 David Hide 2017 Tim Lawrance Owen 2018 Marianne Bachmann Andersen 2019 Kees Eigenraam 2020-21 Not awarded 2022 Bent Jensen 2023 Vicky Endersby |