Flower Show success
There was a lot to see at this year’s Ellerslie Flower Show, which featured a record number of garden exhibits. Here are some of the highlights for those of you who couldn’t make it.
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Otago designer, Sally Brown of Blueskin Nurseries won the Supreme Award for Horticultural Excellence with her plant-packed garden ‘Passion’. This garden was also a crowd favourite, winning the esteemed Yates Peoples Choice Award. Sally says her garden was all about bringing flowers to Ellerslie. She used more than 90 plant varieties and 1300 plants to showcase the range of bulbs, shrubs, perennials and trees grown by New Zealand nursery industry professionals. |
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Gold winning exhibit, Christchurch Botanic Gardens’ also took the Judges’ Supreme Award and The Supreme Award for Design Excellence with a garden entitled ‘Burn After Reeding’. |
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Kapiti Coast’s Ben Hoyle of Blue Gecko Design won the The Supreme Construction Award for ‘Under my Umbrella’ |
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‘Take a Second Look’ was designed to raise awareness of the issues faced by children with arthritis. Wellington designer, Bayley LuuTomes was rewarded with a Silver Medal and The Supreme Award Lighting. |
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Canterbury charitable trust, ‘Greening the Rubble’ and designer Jonathan Hall won a Silver Distinction Award for their stunning ‘Pod Oasis’. One of the show’s favourites, it is a real garden which will be relocated to one of Christchurch city’s vacant spaces. The trust creates and maintains temporary public gardens around the city. |
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Katie Costain and Ben Freeman of Billygoat Landscape Architecture won a Silver Award for ‘Inside Out’, and outdoor garden based on an indoor room, with green wallpaper, turf carpet and louvre skylight. |
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This garden, entitled ‘Dig for Victory’ by Jonathan and Julia Branton-Casey showcased the similarities of the wartime era and today’s passion for backyard food production. They won a Bronze Award. |
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Emily McEwan of Outright design won Gold with a colourful contemporary garden called ‘Outside the Box’. |
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H&S Landscape design duo, Grant Stephens and Rebecca Hammond created a Silver award-winning garden called ‘Take Rest’, complete with outdoor lounge, bedroom and bathroom. |
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Auckland landscape design company Natural Habitats presented one of the shows most elegant and sophisticated designs. The striking pergola and sunken conversation pit drew inspiration from the 1970’s. It won Bronze |
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A handsome stone fireplace and timber furniture featured in the Gold winning garden, ‘Sticks and Stones to Rest my Bones’ by The Outdoor Space. |
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Noted English designer and Chelsea Flower Show champion, Paul Hervey-Brookes created ‘The Moment’ with Yealands Family Wines, winning Silver Distinction. The garden featured Pebbles inscribed with Christchurch people’s memories and messages. |
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Scotty Fletcher showcased the Australian Outback in his Bronze winning exhibition garden, a real crown pleaser complete with aboriginal rock drawings, and a life-sized crocodile. |
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Kevin Gillespie of GLD Architectural Design won a Bronze award for his exhibition garden entitled ‘1914’, inspired by the centenary of WW1 |
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A new school gardens category saw eight Canterbury schools create bright and colourful spaces in front of a façade of a street of houses. They were among the most popular gardens in the show, winning four gold, two silver and two bronze awards. |
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Will Morrison designed a garden to appeal to the modern man. His ‘Urban Paving’ complete with a living pool table and a putting green was awarded Silver. |
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Hamilton Design student, Jordan Hampson won a Gold medal and Student of the Year with his Mexican-inspired courtyard. The Lexus Emerging Designs Student of the Year competition is open to all students of landscape, design and horticulture and in recent years has been a career launch pad for many young designers. |
7-Mar-2014
In the Garden
