Visit the 2010 Garden World Spring Festival and enjoy talks, concerts, demonstrations and landscaped show gardens
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'Nature's Champions' is the theme of this year's Spring Festival at Garden World in partnership with Absa Business Bank. The Festival takes place from Friday July 30 to Sunday September 5, 2010.
Plants, in all their diversity, play a starring role in the 13 designer gardens, as well as in the 2010 Kirstenbosch-South Africa Chelsea Exhibit, nine children's gardens and educational exhibits by Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), the University of South Africa (UNISA), the Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden and Rand Water.
The Spring Festival is a showcase for Gauteng's up and coming landscapers and this year's participants include Craig de Necker of Friendly Plant, Paul Webber of Engender Gardens, and Rose Vermeulen and Bernadine Drath of Indigo Landscape Design. The aim is to show that gardening is still all about plants and how effectively plants can be used in groupings and combinations.
There will also be a designer herb and vegetable garden by Caro Sabbagha of Room to Grow. This is the second year that Caro is participating in the Spring Festival.
The Kirstenbosch-South Africa Chelsea Exhibit, which this year won a silver medal, is an annual highlight. The theme of this year's exhibit celebrates 'Biodiversity as the Variety of Life' and it displays several of the different vegetation types in four of our main regions; the Cape Floral Kingdom, the subtropical forests, the succulents of the desert and Karoo and the aloes, grasses and bulbs of the savanna grassland areas.
There are more children's gardens than ever before with nine schools taking part. The Spring Festival programme also features a number of events just for children such as cupcake making on Saturday August 14, and making your Spring 'Mr Grass Head' & Pot Painting on Saturday August 21.
Music is on the programme with concerts by the National Eisteffod Academy (NEA) and the popular “In Tune with Nature' with maestro Richard Cock and Tanya Visser, sponsored by MayFord seeds on Saturday August 28. This is followed by the Grand Finale Concert on Sunday September 5 with Lianie May and Gerhard Steyn.
Other events will be a morning in the company of Margaret Roberts devoted to 'Delectable Healthy Food', a table setting demonstration by the Gauteng Flora Union, the 'Romance of Roses' by Ludwig Taschner, a workshop on how to mosaic a garden pot with Lizette Jonker, and a Miss Earth Tree Planting event to mark Arbor Week.
Entrance to the Designer Gardens & the Chelsea Exhibit is R20 per person, Senior Citizens R10 & children under 12 years Free. For more information on the festival contact Magriet / Corné on 011 957 2545 / 011 956 3003 or 083 997 6142 or visit www.gardenworld.co.za
Programme:
Talks at 9.30am for 10am unless otherwise indicated.
- July 31 – Experience Chelsea 2010 - a talk by David Davidson and Raymond Hudson. Cost: R55.
- August 14 – Cupcake making for children - a demonstration by Anneline Makkink. Cost: R95.
- August 21 – Mr Grasshead and Pot Painting for children by Tersia Swanepoel. Cost: R50.
- August 25 – Design your Own Garden with Tuis/Home Magazines - a talk by JJ van Rensburg and Derrich Gardner. Cost: R65.
- August 26- Table Setting Demonstration by the Gauteng Flora Union. Cost: R65.
- August 28 – In Tune with Nature - lecture by Tanya Visser and Maestro Richard Cock. Cost: R80.
- August 31 – Health from your Garden - a talk by Jenny Slabber. Cost: R65.
- September 1 – The Romance of Rose by Ludwig Taschner. Cost: R65.
- September 2 – Healthy Food by Margaret Roberts. Cost: R80.
- September 4 – Mosaic your Gardening Pot by Lizette Jonker. Cost: R100.
- September 5, 11am – Grand Finale Concert by Leanie May & Gerhard Steyn. Cost: R100 adults, R50 children under 10.
