New Zealand Garden Expo, Auckland 2011 2026 2027 (7725)

FEATURE ELEMENTS AND AREAS

An informal, intimate Q&A panel format featuring New Zealand`s Your Home & Garden magazine personalities as well as other industry experts talking on specific plant care and answering gardening questions.
Chefs, cooking experts, personalities and exhibitors will show easy, hands-on cooking techniques to take the fruits of their garden labours to the table. Brought to you by Taste magazine.
The boundary between inside and outside home spaces is blurring in modern architecture, with outdoor landscape entertainment areas blending seamlessly with kitchens and living rooms. The Outdoor Room feature will inspire visitors to break down the barriers between inside and out.
Bring the excitement outside.with jumbo-sized entertainment. See how games like super sized chess can be part of the outdoor lifestyle.
This area ensures the Expo is fun for the whole family. Children will be kept happy with craft, colouring and games. Brought to you be Little Treasures magazine.
An interactive display , led by an expert personality, will feature hands-on involvement from audience members. Visitors will learn the fundamentals of key gardening skills such as: propagation from seed, roots or cuttings, grafting, re-potting, tool maintenance and selection, pruning and transplanting.
Stage presentations will educate visitors on numerous issues about the variety of creatures coexisting in a thriving and dynamic garden ecosystem. This could include:

Productive Animals: bees and chickens provide wonderful home produce as well as essential pollination and manure to fertilise
Attracting Native Birds: what to plant for and feed native birds
Creepy Crawly Bugs & Spiders: how to identify, friend or foe
Lizards and Frogs: encourage some , discourage others
Responsible Pet Keeping: how to keep backyard pets from upsetting nature`s

Garden retreats are not only for the quarter acre block. Apartments terraces and town houses can all have a thriving green sanctuary. The Inner City Sanctuary display will demonstrate innovative ways to bring gardens into small spaces through use of elements such as space defying vertical gardens, easy care plants, innovative storage and integrated furniture.
Live stage demonstrations on the how-to`s of the complete cycle of sustainable vegetable growing. Three sub-stages - Compost, Cultivation, and Control - will sit adjacent in an arc, with presentations by the expert personalities rotating in turn. Each segment will be 20 minutes in duration with a smooth transition to the next. Each sub-stage will contain an identical demonstration garden bed, angled to the audience, at a different stage

New Zealand Garden Expo, Auckland 2011