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Greetings!
I am having my first holiday since launching the
website – it is our first birthday this week
and the
year has seen rapid growth of the website, our users
and online community. When I say a "holiday" it is a
bit of a busman’s holiday really. I am at the Ellerslie
Flower Show getting my hands dirty at our debut
Exhibition Garden.
Landscapedesign.co.nz Exhibition Garden
Receives Merit Award!
At 12 noon on Monday 13th there was a mad
scramble amongst Exhibitors to gather our tools and
leave our sites as the judging panel commenced the
difficult task of selecting this year’s winners from all
the wonderful talent on display! And yesterday
evening after the official opening of the show, at the
exclusive Premiere Garden Party, the winners were
announced. We were very pleased to receive a
Merit
Award for our garden – a
landmark for this quickly expanding business, and a
fitting “First Birthday” present!
We would like to say a huge “thank you”
to all of
the
people who worked so long and hard over grueling 14-
hour days and in all weathers, to help me realize my
design concept – any volunteers for next year?
Congratulations too to all the other winners!
Well that’s all I have time for this week. Check out
the Ellerslie Pages on www.land
scapedesign.co.nz
for
more information about our Exhibition Garden. The
landscapedesign.co.nz team have been working
furiously to get these pages ready before they come
up to see what the boss has been doing while “on
holiday”.
If you are coming to the show please come and
introduce yourself. Our location is EG 9 -
Exhibition garden 9 – you won’t have trouble finding
it. We’re right in front of the Rose Entrance. We’re
looking forward to seeing you here!
Sincerely,
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The excitement is building. There has been frenetic
construction activity and event organising all week
and traffic is beginning to increase throughout the
show grounds. Everyone is hoping the weather will
stay fine for the next fortnight, but who knows with
this subtropical Auckland climate? While the power
was off I had a quick wander around and took a few
images of gardens being built.
First up was
Architrim who have been busy for the
past three weeks building their Exhibition garden.
Architrim is a company that makes textured
architectural features. Here are a
couple of the Architrim guys standing beside one of
the pillars they were installing in their garden.
Roger Price and Wayne Dymond with their planting
well underway.
