Ellerslie Flower Show

Xanthe's garden, sponsored by Daltons, will also aim for sustainability through its design, bringing heating and cooling elements into the garden, the plant material being a mix of native plants and flowers. She says the garden retains the most beautiful aspects of the city's heritage in a lush planted green garden, complete with water feature, transitioning into a dry, arid garden featuring a marble Tim Royall sculpture. Four past gold medal winners at the Ellerslie International Flower Show return to this year's show to create an inner city courtyard or rooftop garden for Christchurch of the future. Xanthe, who has won two sliver gilt awards at the world's prestigious Chelsea Flower Show and several medals at Ellerslie, says her 2012 garden has two sides. "The garden has duality, embracing Christchurch's heritage through stone work and classicism, while looking to the future with a contemporary courtyard where diversity in planting gives the garden complexity.

This year's show reported a loss of $88,000, compared with a $224,000 profit for the first Ellerslie show staged in the Garden City last year. Council legal services manager Chris Gilbert said the figure covered event production, ticketing, event traffic, volunteers, gardens, sponsorship, sales and marketing and administration costs. This year's Ellerslie International Flower Show cost nearly $3 million to stage &ndash. Christchurch mayoral candidate Liz Gordon said the figures showed the event had become too commercialised and had moved away from its simple "flower show" concept. A breakdown of how the money was spent is being kept under wraps by the Christchurch City Council because it fears giving competitors sensitive information will threaten its chances of bidding for similar events. The council declined to release a breakdown of all costs incurred at this year's show. "The high costs involved in staging the show are driving the event into a very highly comcommercialised model &ndash. Details released to The Press under the Official Information Act showed $2....

Competition aims for eco gardeners

Ellerslie International Flower Show exhibition manager Kate Hillier says the brief was for a garden for a young family, with two children under five,

International gardens at Ellerslie

The Ellerslie International Flower Show will this year feature two international gardens - a first in the show's 15-year history.

Water Oasis In An Industrial Setting

With his Ellerslie International Flower Show exhibit, Pocock says he wants visitors to the Show to think about how they create their landscapes and to

Chris Beardshaw to create an 'English landscape' at Ellerslie International ...

Chris Beardshaw is heading to New Zealand to create a 64m-long garden at the Ellerslie International Flower Show in Christchurch.

All Black's Garden To Promote Sustainable Design Practices

All Black halfback Andy Ellis and his mate Danny Kamo are back exhibiting at this year's Ellerslie International Flower Show but there will be no cricket,

Ellerslie Flower Show, official programme, 20-24 November 2002, Auckland Regional Botanic Gardens, Manukau City

The Ellerslie flower show, official programme

The Ellerslie Flower Show