Hand Over a Hundy is a one year challenge to young families to learn to grow and produce their own vegetable gardens. They are sponsored a hundy (or $100) to buy all the essentials for their gardens with the challenge of not only learning the art of gardening but to produce more than they need […]
New Zealand’s best apprentice florists will compete at next month’s Ellerslie International Flower Show for the chance to represent New Zealand at the 2011 WorldSkills International Floristry Competition in London. Ten competitors will each make 15 floral designs during the five days of the Show demonstrating their skills in creativity and design to the thousands […]
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 her […]
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 […]
On 11th of March the gates for the first Christchurch-hosted Ellerslie International Flower Show open, promising “the biggest and the best show” in Ellerslie’s 14-year-old history. With more than 80 horticultural exhibits, the stage is set to develop the Southern Hemisphere’s largest garden show into one of the top five garden shows in the world, […]
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 […]
