Ellerslie International Flower Show
The Ellerslie International Flower Show 2012 will be held in North Hagley Park, Christchurch from 7 – 11 March 2012. A team from the New Zealand Alpine Garden Society has been working hard on the Society’s exhibit entitled “Where did we come from?- plants from far corners of the world to our gardens” telling the story of the intrepid exploits of some of the early planthunters to bring back exciting new plants which we now grow in our gardens. We hope to see you there!
Last year’s Ellerslie Flower Show was cancelled at the last minute due to the earthquake, but in the previous year we were delighted to win a Gold Medal for our exhibit “From Potting Bench to Show Bench”. This featured a potting shed, patio area complete with a variety of home-made hypertufa troughs, and a mini-showbench of prizewinning potted plants such as you may see at our Spring Show. The Society was also proud to be awarded the Supreme Award for Horticultural Excellence for the plants on display, so congratulations and thanks to the team who organised and contributed to the exhibit.
Many visitors were impressed by the hypertufa troughs and asked how to make them. The UK Alpine Garden Society has kindly allowed us to publish the link to their on-line trough-making instruction leaflet:
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/pdf_files/publication/AGS-Hypertufa_Leaflet.pdf