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Singapore Garden Festival 2008

This years designers

BlueGecko Landscape design

Kelvin Chua
Landscape Design


Singapore Garden Festival 2008 The Worlds Premier
Gardening & Landscape Event in the Tropics

Singapore Garden Festival 2008.
Another season of Enchantment
25 July to August 1st 2008

Following on from a roaring success in 2006 this years second Singapore Garden Festival will inspire like never before.
The prerequisite to attend the show is to be a gold medal winner at another garden festival, this year some of the worlds greatest landscapers from Europe, Asia, Britain, Australia, New Zealand Sri Lanka, China,Malaysia, and America will be showing off their skills to world.

New Zealand's Premier Garden event the Ellerslie Flower Show is where Ben Hoyle and Kelvin Chua have displayed there skills and were rewarded with gold medal awards.
This year is New Zealands first appearance at the show and Ben and Kelvin will have display gardens on show.

BEN HOYLE is Managing Director of Blue Gecko Ltd. Landscape & Design. He has been involved in garden design for about 10 years and is based just North of Wellington on the Kapiti Coast. He is a regular visitor to Ellerslie and in 2006 won his gold for this garden.

Ben Hoyle Bluegecko Landscapes Kapiti Coast.. Ben Hoyles Gold winning garden Ellerslie 2006
Ben Hoyle and his award winning 2006 Ellerslie Garden

In July 2006 Kate Hillier exhibition manager of the Ellerslie International Flower show approached him about the Singapore Garden Festival and from that moment began his journey with this event.

The theme of Bens garden explores the history of Aotearoa New Zealand and as you can see in the image is a rectangular shape. Its title is Kakariki in Sheeps clothing. Its been a full on experience designing and organizing the garden, and then the logistics of exporting it to Singapore.

The normal sized site at the show is 100m2 or 10x10 mtrs, Bens site is 20x5mtrs and has allowed him to display his story from start to finish.
Once this layout was finalized, the ordering of components could go ahead. Four and a half kilometer's of wool yarn, and acrylic from Australia. Plants from New Zealand from North Island growers and Ferns from the South Islands West Coast were then obtained.
Ben was able to travel to Singapore in March and again in July to sort out local contractors and other issues associated with his display and the festival.
Mid June 2008 and the display was loaded into a 40' temperature controlled container and shipped to Singapore.
The Singapore Government has covered the total costs involved with this endeavor. It allows designers to extend there skills and bring them together for the benefit of the global public, it must be the gardening event of the year. Thank you Singapore.

 

 

 

The Worlds Greatest Garden and Landscape Event


KELVIN CHUA is a multiple award winner at the Ellerslie International Flower Show in New Zealand, including three Gold Awards. He is currently a lecturer in Graphic Communication at the School of Landscape and Landscape Architecture, Unitec. Auckland, New Zealand. Born in Singapore, Kelvin migrated to New Zealand at the age of five.

KELVIN CHUA is a multiple award winner at the Ellerslie International Flower Show in New Zealand Picture  from the  Singapore Garden Festival website ..Kelvin Chua Landscape Designer

Kelvin Chua and his award winning Ellerslie Garden.


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