Multi award-winning Japanese garden designer Koji Ninomiya will fuse traditional Japanese-style garden design with contemporary influences in his garden at next month’s Ellerslie International Flower Show.

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From formal English gardens to rambling country estates and city hideaways, next year’s Ellerslie Garden Tours will showcase some of Canterbury’s best award-winning gardens.
Eight tours have been organised by the Canterbury Horticultural Society during the 2010 Ellerslie International Flower Show, reflecting the diversity of Canterbury’s landscape and the evolution of garden design in the region [...]

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Gold award-winning Ellerslie International Flower Show garden designer Carl Pickens will be calling on the Christchurch community to help create his exhibition garden for next year’s Show.
The sustainable landscape architect and organic horticulturalist has “been inspired by an concept which invites people to contribute their ideas for creating a sustainable world”.

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Multi award-winning Chelsea Flower Show garden designer Chris Beardshaw will design the 2010 international feature garden at the next year’s Ellerslie International Flower Show.
Renowned for his formal English garden designs, Chris Beardshaw has won nine Gold and Silver Gilt Royal Horticultural Society medals, five Best in Show Awards and the People’s Choice Award at the [...]

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Press Release: Taranaki Arts Festival Trust
Date: Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Time: 3:37 pm NZT
Puketarata, a large country garden north of Hawera, has been awarded Garden of National Significance status just two years after opening its gates for the Taranaki Rhododendron & Garden Festival.
Puketarata, independently assessed by the New Zealand Gardens Trust for its National Significance status, [...]

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Visitors to the Ellerslie International Flower Show have spoken and chosen Texture Plants’ Off the Wall garden as their favourite.

The People’s Choice Award was last night given to a garden which is a secluded area in which to escape from the hustle and bustle of every-day life.
It is a combination of seamless structures, [...]

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Amateur Auckland photographer John Pirtle is on a winning streak having been named the winner of two national photographic competitions in just three months.

Mr Pirtle is the winner of this year’s The Great Ellerslie Photo Competition, with his image Lest We Forget (right) which he created for a friend on the anniversary of [...]

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Christchurch has retained the National Flower Bed title at this year’s Ellerslie International Flower Show.
The city’s entry, a floral tribute to the controversial Peacock Fountain in the Botanic Gardens, has won both gold and been named Ellerslie’s National Flower Bed for 2009.
Christchurch won the inaugural National Flower Bed Competition in 2007 at the last Auckland-hosted [...]

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Four exhibition gardens have won gold at this year’s Ellerslie International Flower Show.
In what the judges say was “a tough competition for the medals with a number of hotly contested criteria”, Wellington designer Ben Hoyle and Christchurch designers Carl Pickens, Rob Watson for the Canterbury Horticultural Society and Sir Miles Warren, Alan Trott, Pauline Trengrove [...]

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Sustainability is a buzzword which permeates flower shows these days – and this year’s Ellerslie International Flower Show is no exception.
 
Waterwise planting, water recycling, intelligent use of water, low-energy gardens and restoring soil nutrients are all key international garden trends and many of these concepts will be seen in two exhibition gardens at Ellerslie 2009 [...]

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