News
- Rare Plant
Auction on Sunday
- Would you like
to come by Coach?
- Inaugural
Display Garden
- Credit card
payment
- Beat the
traffic from Sydney
- Improved access works well
- Your Nursery at
the 2009 Fair?
- AIH Awards
- Highly
successful 2008 Fair
5th Collectors'
Plant Fair at Bilpin
The 5th
Collectors' Plant Fair will be held 9am - 4pm Saturday 18
and 9am - 3pm Sunday
19 April 2009 at Woodgreen 27 Powells Road Bilpin NSW.
Bilpin is in Sydney Street Directories. See also the Bilpin and
M7 Maps.
40 Specialist Growers will attend the Fair
There will be an inspiring Speaker Programme
Entry to the Fair - $10 per person for the weekend OR $8 if prepaid. Your Entry ticket covers the
weekend and allows entry on either or both Saturday and Sunday.
Rare
Plant Auction on Sunday
New for 2008 was our Rare Plant Auction. It was held in
Woodgreen's garden at 2 pm on Sunday 27 April 2008.
There were 20 lots They included: rare salvias, bulbs,
bromeliads, roses, pelargoniums, natives, trees and perennials
Our nominated charity LIFELINE received over $1,000 .
Would you
like to come by Coach?
YOU
MUST BOOK WITH AND PRE-PAY AUSTRALIAN
COACH TOURS ON 9533 2355 - MENTION COLLECTORS PLANT
FAIR AT BILPIN 18 19 APRIL 2009
Inaugural
Display Garden Detail for the 2009 garden coming soon
In 2008, for the first time, a
special Display Garden was at the 4th Collectors’ Plant
Fair.
Display gardens involve
significant input from the landscape design and construction
industry. They provide an opportunity for the industry to
display their products in a creative setting to a wide audience
of dedicated garden lovers.
Many visitors to the Collectors’
Plant Fair return each year and are always looking for new
ideas.
Margaret Cory, M.A.I.H.,
M.H.M.A., garden designer, and Mark Morrison, M.A.I.H.,
horticulturist, were invited to design and install the
inaugural display garden: “A Garden of Visual Delights”:
The garden was in a prominent position within the
grounds and will be approximately 60m2
The theme was elegant and simple. There were
decorative, visual surprises as it is well known that a good
garden design does not rest on plants alone. These
were
in the form of garden seating, a fountain, antique Turkish
amphora, garden pots and carved stepping stones. The garden
was semi-enclosed with a high hedge to give a feeling of
anticipation. There were specimen trees and feature
plants as well as borders, groundcovers and flowering bulbs.
Mark Morrison, a member of the Australian Institute
of Horticulture, has been involved with the nursery industry
for ten years. He has had his own retail nursery, has
worked for one of Sydney’s largest and well-known wholesale
growing nurseries and is an authority on the shaping of
topiary plants.
Mark launched his web-based business, Morrison’s
Garden Centre Online, at the fair and many of the plants in
the garden display will be available for sale at the fair
and online.
Margaret Cory, a member of the Australian Institute
or Horticulture and Horticulture Media Association, has been
a garden designer for eighteen years working for private
clients and designed the three display gardens for the AIH
at the last Sydney in Bloom garden show in the Domain. She
had a small specialist garden shop, The Potting Shed, before
branching into designing and is also a horticultural writer
producing articles for garden magazines. Margaret produces
a metal plant support, the Curved Perennial Cradle, which
has been sold to keen gardeners for over a decade. It is of
unique design and is eagerly sought out by people who care
of their gardens.
Sponsors:
Bill and Vicky Grattan at the Hartley
Valley Nursery
Passionwood Accommodation and Nursery
Berambing Crest, Berambing
0439 666 646
The Mackisack Family
Credit Card Payment
You will be able to pay for Speaker Sessions - $20 per person - and Pre-Paid
Entry
(at the discounted rate of $8 per person for the weekend instead of $10
if purchased on the
day) by credit card
either by mail, fax or phone. The 2009 Fair Booking Forms
will available in September
Beat
the traffic from Sydney
The Lane Cove Tunnel is now open. So
from Sydney beat the traffic on your way to Bilpin. Take:
· the
Gore Hill freeway which connects to
· the
M2 tollway which connects to
· the
M7 tollway and TAKE THE RICHMOND ROAD EXIT THEN FOLLOW
· THE
SIGNS TO RICHMOND AND LITHGOW
This gets you to the Bells Line of Road which goes to Bilpin.
Collectors' Plant Fair signs on Bells Line direct you to the
Fair
Improved
access works well
Woodgreen's new road through
the Fair site makes access to the Fair a
breeze. Free onsite parking is plentiful. Our shuttle buses, to and
from parking and back to coaches, help the less
mobile.
Your
Nursery at the 2009 Fair?
Are
you a grower of distinctive plants?
Would you like to be a vendor at the 5th Collectors’
Plant Fair? Please email
your details to
collectorsplantfair@bigpond.com
Or mail to Collectors’ Plant Fair, Post Office, BILPIN NSW 2758
Name
Nursery
Phone
Please list your distinctive plants that would interest collectors
Do you have any
images?
Would you have enough stock for two days?
Our preference is for specialist growers with good plant knowledge
Highly successful 2008 Fair
Once again, the weather gods
smiled favourably on the fourth Collectors’ Plant Fair at Woodgreen,
Bilpin on 26 & 27 April. 3,500 enthusiastic plant people were welcomed
by organizers Beth Stokes and Peta and Peter Trahar to select from a
wide range of rare and unusual plants on offer from 40 specialist
growers
The growers came from all over NSW
and Victoria with a treasure trove of plants suitable for all climates
and all gardens and visitors arrived from town and country NSW and
beyond.
Peta's garden was a source of
delight, and education, for the knowledgeable crowd and the garden took
on the additional role of an outdoor café and forum for free growers’
talks.
The speaker sessions were very
popular with talks by well known designer and author, Michael McCoy and
Jill Wran who shared her joy of gardening and her extensive knowledge of
plants.
First timers at the Fair were a
display garden designed and constructed by Margaret Cory and Mark
Morrison who were ably assisted by the Kurrajong Garden Club; an
exhibition of fine garden ornamentation by Brock Metalcraft and a
display of bantam chooks and Mountain Arks’ portable chicken coops which
much loved by children and adults alike.
The finale to the fair was the
inaugural Rare Plant Auction on Sunday afternoon. Many stallholders
donated some very special plants which raised over $1000 for Lifeline
25% of the proceeds of the Fair
were donated to the Bilpin Bushfire Brigade who directed traffic and
organised parking and many friends and family volunteered their time to
help with the smooth running of the Fair
Hartley Valley Nursery was a major
sponsor of this year’s Fair. Bill and Vicky Grattan have reopened the
Hartley Valley Nursery at Little Hartley specialising in unusual trees,
shrubs and perennials
Stallholders and visitors
expressed eager anticipation for the fifth Collectors' Plant Fair on 18
& 19 April, 2009
Australian Institute of
Horticulture Awards
Beth Stokes and
Peta Trahar have been awarded
NSW JOINT HORTICULTURISTS OF THE YEAR
-2005
(Photography Isabella Lettini
www.isabellalettini.com.au)
and the
NATIONAL AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
for promoting horticulture,
particularly the use and conservation
of rare and unusual plants through
the organisation of the
Collectors' Plant Fair
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