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GIVE IT A GO, ENTER THE SHOW… ✦ Daniel 'Chook' Fowler, Greenbourne Nursery gives us some tips on garden shows
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s we now in 2022 begin to assume normality, we will charge on responsibly and encourage our reengagement with what we have done year after year, for many generations prior to ours. All I ask is to please be responsible and protect all of those around you and trust our health care response as we begin to re-engage with our normality.
many competitions that are run over the duration of the event.
So, with that normality, we will see the return of all those lovely fairs, markets and shows. These are the events many communities have been desperate to get back into as they bring happiness to all that are involved with them.
It really all began with Mum
You can simply attend these events as paying customers coming through the turn-styles ready to enjoy a day and evening of fun or if you would like to add that extra element to the experience you could enter one of the
In particular for us avid gardeners, please do consider entering a horticultural competition, trust me you will love it. You will meet like-minded people and become addicted to the thrill of the competition. Read on as I share some of my experiences, give you some tips and explain the process.
When I was young, I was fortunate to have a family around me that had various horticultural interests. My Nan loved native rock gardens. Grandma loved spring colour all through her gardens and Mum was always trying anything in the garden. She would trial different plants she found at the local nursery, as well
as organising and planning various garden beds. Mum provided us with chickens in an urban environment and always allowed us to take ownership of a garden bed and plant seed or plants we had found at our neighbours, weekend markets or local nurseries. This great upbringing of plants, soil, fertiliser and of course garden confidence, began to rub off on me. In my early years of life away from the homestead I was always vegetable gardening with housemates and creating green environments wherever we could. Sometimes we would re-use large water tubs and replant them with veggies on the veranda or even plant herbs in used beer cans. My friends, while young and ‘hip’ really took to the process and helped accelerate my interest in the amazing phenomenon of horticulture.
