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| NZ in flowers |
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| Devonshire tea in the Dilmah tent. Very smart and nice |
Well Aaron and I went to Ellerslie on Friday. I won tickets - big yahoo and yippeee. I get the NZ Gardener weekly email called Get
Growing and for $10 you get a VIP section with competitions etc. And I won (yes I know I said that - but I was very excited)
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| Loved this colour combination |
So we went. The gardens were spectacular. The recycled and upcycled gardens so appealed to me. There was one that was made from old kitchen benches and drawers and pallets. Oh the pallet use was amazing. I wanted to zoom back to work and pull the two pallets out of the skip. But where would I put them???
What was disappointing was the size. It was about 1/2 the size of the first show we went to in 2010 which was amazing. The food tent was non existent, they said that the food area was set up as a farmers market look with straw bales etc, but there were only 8 stalls - yes 8!
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| Amazing garden with Moa sculpture |
So I enjoyed it, some was amazing, but we were home by 1.30pm. I am so pleased that I had not paid the $42 entry but actually won tickets.
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| In the recycled garden |
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| Great upcycling of old movie theatre seats |
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| Pallet vege garden, look at the use of old kitchens and drawers |
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| A buzzy bee flower garden - fantastic |
Very cool. Lucky you, I would have loved to go. I know you saw Pam there, she was very disappointed with the number of gardens, and also the huge number of "unrelated to garden stalls". She felt that there was too much of trying to sell you stuff! She was pleased she hadn't had to buy her ticket too!
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