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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Burst! of Water - Te Wai Pounamu!

Burst! Christchurch's 22nd Festival of Flowers
Friday 11 February – Sunday 6 March 2011

http://www.festivalofflowers.co.nz

Burst!, the Festival of Flowers is over for 2010 and we are already planning next year's event, the theme of which will be water: Burst! of Water - and the Festival will be Bursting! into Te Wai Pounamu (South Island). Please note: 2010 Festival events remain on the website until 2011 events are confirmed.

To view or print our October Festival Newsletter, please CLICK HERE

The Festival of Flowers is known to bring 'firsts' to New Zealand, building on this reputation the Christchurch Garden City Trust is proud to present 'burst! of water' as the 2011 theme.

We are inviting the people of the Garden City, New Zealand and beyond to start the festival New Year off with a bang! The world class 23m plus Floral Carpet in ChristChurch Cathedral - 'Where Streams of Living Water Flow' - will realise the water theme aesthetically. Simple and beautiful education will be presented through exciting installations, exhibits, panel discussions, key-note speakers and a treat for the whole family – a summer’s movie night in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens

The 2011 Festival of Flowers will include:

Water-themed Floral Carpet
Key-note Speakers &
Panel Discussion
Water themed Exhibition
Water sculpture/s
Topiary animals featuring a watery wonderland
Water themed floral displays
Outdoor movie night in the Christchurch Botanic gardens
Water is Precious, Children are Precious garden
A prelude to World Water Day on 22 March

http://www.festivalofflowers.co.nz

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Giant Topiary at Festival of Flowers - Christchurch

This was the first year we have commissioned Topiary as an exhibit. The aim is to commission further models each year to build enough for a large scale installation in a few years time.

We have a dry climate in summer so again some Research and Development was required.

Here are our first few completed.

They were a hit with the public but as always is the case we learned a lot as well when they were on display.

What do you think?

And then there are those who decide to have a bit of fun? on Saturday night and kill the mother Elephant. We called them poachers but still have not tracked them down.

Actually it was fortunate that many people thought it was actually part of the exhibit to have mum playing dead.

Please leave a comment

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Vertical Lawn/Meadow

The Christchurch festival of Flowers commissioned several new installations this year.

One was this fantastic Vertical lawn/meadow.

Once the research and Development was complete special fabric was coated with grass seed and wild flower seed and grown in a greenhouse.

A large vertical scaffold was constructed and at the beginning of the Festival the Vertical Lawn installed. In typical Kiwi Fashion a lawn mower was added to the installation.

The building in the background is the famous Canterbury Museum.