8 Reasons to Visit the Queensland Garden Expo

8 Reasons to Visit the Queensland Garden Expo

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Posted 2014-06-02 by Lionelfollow

Fri 11 Jul 2014 - Sun 13 Jul 2014


The Queensland Garden Expo is back in July to thrill green thumbs and novice gardeners with 3 days of exhibitions, demonstrations, lectures and workshops.

What started 29 years ago by the Sunshine Coast Branch of the Nursery & Garden Industry in 1985 with only 30 exhibitors and 300 visitors is now Queensland's premier gardening event. It attracts more than 34,000 visitors from all over Australia and New Zealand, including some of the leading gardening experts. There will be over 360 exhibitors and over 55 nurseries represented.

Here are 8 reasons to spend the weekend at the expo and take in the picturesque Sunshine Coast region at the same time.

1. Free Lectures and Demonstrations

The Queensland Garden Expo is offering free lectures and demonstrations on eight "live" stages every day to help you address a variety of gardening topics. A panel of gardening experts will be around to answer your questions.



2. Free Plant Clinic

The Plant Clinic has a team of Queensland Nursery and Garden Industry members on hand to help answer any of your gardening problem or help you identify a plant.

3. Giant Kitchen Garden

There will be a fully planted sustainable garden onsite at the Kitchen Garden. It will be the venue for talks such as how to grow and use medicinal herbs, grow edible green walls, when and how to grow vegetables, and tips and tricks to keeping an organic garden

4. Gardeners and Gourmets

Double your enjoyment of owning a vegetable garden by learning how to turn your produce into gourmet meals. Experts will be on stage to share tips on growing your own produce and recipes.



5. Landscape Garden Displays

Always popular with visitors to the Expo is the Garden Expo Landscape designs. You can join a twice daily tour of the displays and hear the inspiration behind the designs from the experts. The expert landscapers are also available to share ideas and advice you on how to create your own landscape garden.

6. Colin Campbell Gumboot Auction

The Expo has transformed the passing of well known gardening personality Colin Campbell in 2012 into a positive remembrance through the Colin Campbell Garden Shed Auction, which raises funds to support community gardening projects.

Local celebrities and gardening personalities have come together to decorate a gumboot for the silent auction at the Expo. All the funds raised by the auction will be donated to landscape an outdoor space for patients at the Maleny District Hospital. Look out for other gumboots around the Expo filled with gift vouchers and gardening products.

7. Floral Art Display

Organised by the Nambour Floral Art Group, fantastic floral arrangements from the Annual Floral Design Competition located in the Pavilion building will be on display. You can also view displays from more than 12 different garden societies and clubs. There will also be a talk on floral art by New Zealand's Francine Thomas.



8. Just For Kids

Kids are not forgotten at the Expo. They get plenty of benefits, like children under 15 years have free entry when accompanied by a paying adult, free children's playground with a giant slide, air castle and merry-go-round and there is entertainment by stilt walkers, musicians and street performers.

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