Supreme Award Winners
The Sunday Star-Times Exhibition Gardens Award Winners
Garden Art Award Winners
Twinings Grand Marquee Horticultural Showcase Award Winners
Twinings Grand Marquee Feature Gardens Award Winners
Design Marquee Award Winners
Floral Design Marquee in Association with FINZ Award Winners
Retail Gardens Award Winners
Covered Retail Award Winners
Open Air Retail Award Winners
Gardeners Market
Growers Market
The Green Shed Award Winners
Flemmings Student Award Winners
Secondary School Award Winners
Supreme Award Winners
The Ellerslie Flower Show Supreme Awards recognise and reward excellence in horticulture and landscape design — and in 2004 there’s a new award for lighting excellence.
The Judges’ Supreme Award — Lakeside Art Garden, Jan Hart Landscapes
This is the pre-eminent prize at the Ellerslie Flower Show and is awarded to the exhibit that, in the opinion of our expert judges, achieves the highest overall standard at the show.
Judges’ comments:
An inspiring and sophisticated public landscape on many levels. Excellent articulation of space with a series of unfolding experiences. The subtle association of art with native plants has been expertly curated. A place to return to.
The People’s Choice Award — Dalton’s Garden, Xanthe White
You be the judge! The People’s Choice Award gives you a chance to have your say.
The Design Excellence Award — Flixonase 24 Hour Low Allergy Garden, designed by Xanthe White of Earthroom Landscapes
This award goes to the exhibit that best exemplifies innovation and outstanding design.
Judges’ comments:
Xanthe White has designed and executed a knockout design which employs with refinement and maturity every skill of the garden designer. The three linked spaces are innovatively attuned to the brief as a series of courtyard gardens appealing to allergy sufferers. Everything from the big idea to the smallest detail has been fully thought through, to create a magical garden by both day and night.
The Design Excellence Award – Highly Commended -Stevenson Garden ZoneDesigned by Leo Jew
Judges’ comments:
Leo Jew has designed a bold and insightful work which successfully commands the entry to the show. The piece invites one to enter and offers continually changing readings and experiences, from the breathtaking serpentine planting in the foreground to the surreal beach scene at the rear. The design responds brilliantly to the sloping ground. This work will provoke much discussion of landscape as art, and art as landscape.
The Lighting Excellence Award — Flixonase 24 Hour Low Allergy Garden, designed by Xanthe White of Earthroom Landscapes
For the first time this year, the Ellerslie Flower Show is open until 10pm on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday nights. The showgrounds will be lit up after dark as exhibitors and designers show off with spectacular lighting effects. Our new award for Lighting Excellence recognises that lighting design is an art and skill in its own right, creating ambience, accentuating key plants and ensuring that a garden can be enjoyed in full.
Judges’ comments:
The division of this garden into three rooms enabled the designer to work with a wide range of lighting effects, which she did with great panache. The lighting was by turns risky, graceful, dramatic and dynamic.
The Horticultural Excellence Award — Jo Plants, Terry Hatch
The premier planting award at the Ellerslie Flower Show recognises excellence in such skills as plant selection and synergy, plant health and unique qualities, use of colour and the overall impact achieved.
Judges’ comments:
The message was clear and concise. The plants were exceptionally well grown, and nicely displayed. Divaricating plants are unique and should be better known by the public.
The Horticultural Excellence Award– Highly Commended — O2 Landscapes, Designed by Philip Smith.
Judges’ comments:
Commended for well-grown and extremely interesting plants with a clear message of integration of rare natives with exotics. The backdrop was wonderful.
The Sunday Star-Times Exhibition Gardens Award Winners
Gold
Flixonase, designed by Xanthe White
Auckland Regional Council, designed by Jill Rice
Stevenson Garden Zone, designed by Leo Jew
Silver
The Artist’s Garden, designed by Alex Schanzer
Palmers Urban Paradise
Daltons Garden, designed by Xanthe White
Bronze
Living Earth, designed by Jan McGowan
Manukau City Council, designed by Chow:Hill
Phonak NZ Ltd, designed by Tim Feather
Jon Lambert Designs, designed by Jon Lambert
The Warehouse, designed by Sandra Arnet
Merit
Sunday Star-Times, designed by Norma de Langen
Hire-A-Hubby, designed by Rachel Holt
GARDEN ART AWARD WINNERS
Silver
James Wright Sculptor
Bronze
Sarah Brill Garden Artist
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TWININGS GRAND MARQUEE HORTICULTURAL SHOWCASE AWARD WINNERS
Gold
Joy Plants — Twiglets and Trumpets, designed by Terry & Lindsey Hatch
Silver
www.tropifolia.co.nz designed by Hilary Smythe
Merit
Roach’s Nurseries Ltd
Kiwi Bromeliads
Dr Keith Hammett — Plant Breeder
Living Fashion, designed by Val Glenn in association with Inplants
Mystery Nurseries
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TWININGS GRAND MARQUEE FEATURE GARDENS AWARD WINNERS
Silver
Exotica — The Plant Hunter, designed by Hamish Wain
MIT & Unitec — Tools for Growing, designed by Elle Anderson, Gill Thurlow & Michael Kennedy
Bronze
Twinings Tea Garden, designed by Kara Berube
NGIA — The Stars of Spring Gallery, designed by Meg Kane
Middle Ground: A New Zealand Flower Gardne, designed by O2 Landscapes in association with Yaku Nursery
Auckland Vegetable & Produce Growers Society — 5+ a day, designed by Julena Moores, Dave Farley & Jim Cuthrie
Merit
St Andrew’s Village — A Place of Contentment, designed by Roanne Cooper
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DESIGN MARQUEE AWARD WINNERS
Gold
UNITEC Landscape Design Students
Silver
The Essence of Chaos
WINTEC
Bronze
Laurenson Landscape Design
Landscapes Ltd
365 Landscape Design
Merit
Waikato Home & Garden Show
Sally McLeay
Halligan Associates
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FLORAL DESIGN MARQUEE IN ASSOCIATION WITH FINZ AWARD WINNERS
Professional
Silver
Simply Flowers
XOX Floral Sculpture
Bronze
Passionate Blooms
Merit
Molly Blooms
Floral Art Clubs
Gold
Hibiscus Coast Floral Art Club
Silver
Papakura Floral Art Club
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RETAIL GARDENS AWARD WINNERS
Gold
Lakeside Art Garden, designed by Jan Hart
Bronze
Aqua Technics Pool & Spa Centre NZ Ltd
Merit
Brustics Brushwood Fences Ltd
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COVERED RETAIL AWARD WINNERS
Gold
L’Occitane NZ Ltd
Silver
Nanric Road Fine Foods
Crownthorpe Lavender Ltd
Bronze
Aria Design
Kruz’n Garden Art
Block and Chisel Fabrics NZ
Bentwood Barn
Sharon Blance Image Workshop
Island — Designs out of Waiheke
Olivado NZ
Merit
Jo May Design
Abstract Designs Ltd
Gecko Stone Art
Bella Pacific
Lynsey Champion Hats
M & G Design
CShells NZ
Annabel Silks
Kaboodle Bags
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OPEN AIR RETAIL AWARD WINNERS
Gold
Handcrafted Copperware
Broady’s NZ Ltd
Grand Illusions Ltd
Silver
Les Floralies
Shelter Station
Bronze
Hammock World
Deep Waters Design
Merit
Edoma NZ
Garden Bronze Co
Moonpotz Pottery
Kinder Arts
Plus 2WP Ltd
Zbar Products Ltd
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GARDENERS MARKET AWARD WINNERS
Silver
Endeavour Marketing
Bronze
Fashion Industry of New Zealand Inc (FINZ)
Clevedon County International
Bahco Tools
Mountain Fresh Pure Water Ltd
Gubba Products Ltd
Allendale Garden Products
Give-a-Gift Ltd
Jensen Urns
Merit
Brookings Agencies Ltd
Wildflower World
Sneeboer Tools
JT Enterprises Crazy Products
Lincoln University
Drake & Wrigley Ltd
Bloor Distributing NZ
B’s Knees Kneepads
Wet and Forget Ltd
Garden Pools
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GROWERS MARKET AWARD WINNERS
Silver
Topiary n Things
Bronze
The Warehouse
Joy Plants
Dr Keith Hammett — Plant Breeder
Merit
Landscapes Ltd
Roach’s Nurseries Ltd
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THE GREEN SHED AWARD WINNERS
Merit
World Vision of NZ
Auckland Regional Council
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