New Zealanders to help create 2010 garden
3 December 2009
Ellerslie designer asks New
Zealanders to help create 2010 garden
Gold award-winning
Ellerslie International Flower Show garden designer Carl
Pickens is asking all New Zealanders a simple question:
“What can we do to make the world a better
place?”
The sustainable landscape architect and
organic horticulturalist needs at least 2000 responses to
his question by the end of January to help create his
exhibition garden for the Ellerslie International Flower
Show in March.
Details of the garden design are being kept under wraps until the Show, however, everyone who responses will find their answer “embedded in the design”, he says.
Carl wants all New Zealanders to go online at www.oneearthmatters.co.nz and take a few minutes responding to the Ellerslie Question.
“As a human race, we seem to be at a tipping point where if we continue the way we are, our very existence and experience of life on earth is under threat.
“To make the world a better place, the answers have to come from all of us; everyone has something to offer.”
Carl says with this in mind, he has been inspired to create a garden which invites everyone to share their ideas for building a better world.
The 2010
exhibition garden will be built using the same sustainable
principles within a contemporary setting which won him gold
at this year’s Show. Carl’s award-winning 2009 Ellerslie
garden, Take Five, featured a rain garden, ecodeck, green
walls and no-mow lawn, and showcased a range of ideas on
sustainability.
Ellerslie International Flower Show
is New Zealand’s premier week-long Garden Party in
Christchurch’s North Hagley Park from 10 to 14 March. The
Show celebrates Christchurch’s Garden City heritage and
the best of national and international garden design. Check
out the website for further information
www.ellerslieflowershow.co.nz
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