This year at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, the Victorian Floral Art Assn. held a competition titled “Made in Australia”.

Seven Floral Groups entered, and the winners are listed below:

1^st place:      Yarrawonga & District Garden Club                                                                          Louise Brear & Maxine Webb

2^nd Place:     Box Hill Floral Art Assn.                                                                                                  Karen Chapman & Jodi Forbes

3^rd Place:      Sale Floral Art Group                                                                                                       Wendy Fuessel & Dianne Bloemhoff

Highly Commended:       Red Hill Gardening Society                                                                                          Deb Collett

Ballarat Floral Art Group                                                                                                            Susie Stroud & Rosie Ellis

Mt. Eliza Garden Club                                                                                                                Rosie Kenney & Petra Starkins

Waverley Floral Art Group                                                                                                         Rosie Dougherty & Elizabeth Oberin

CONGRATULATIONS AT ALL THE CLUBS WHO ENTERED

WORKSHOP — 23rd APRIL 2025

FUN WITH CIRCLES

TIME: 9:30 for 10:00 start.

COST: Entry $15.00 plus Materials $15 ($30)

AM/PM: Fun With Circles This workshop will focus on Rhythm and the arrangement of individual pieces to form a cohesive design.

SUPPLIED: All materials including 3 wooden hoops, 2 of which are on stands. A design using the hoops can be seen below. (Sample using Tulips.) The horticulture material will be dependent on what is available in late April.

BYO: Any material you have that you think, would enhance the style of design. If you come with nothing other than your tool box, that will be fine.
If time permits, we will do a ‘WHAT CAN I DO WITH THIS CONTAINER’. Please bring along a tricky container that you love but just cannot work out what to do with. We will put on our collective hats and have some fun.

RSVP: before 9th April: Karen – kchapman22@bigpond.com

VENUE: Brandon Park Community Centre, 649 Ferntree Gully Rd., Glen Waverley 3150.

PLEASE BRING YOUR LUNCH & TOOLBOX INCLUDING FLORAL GLUE

Our first workshop of the year was held on Wednesday 26th February 2025
The title An HIMMELI STRUCTURE.

Due to several reasons this workshop had been cancelled a couple of times, the attending members were delighted to finally be able to make an Himmeli structure. Himmeli comes from Swedish: himmel meaning “heaven” and “sky”.

Josie and Noreen demonstrated using plastic straws (they had been in someone’s cupboard for years, so these were certainly repurposed!), we threaded wire through the straws making a diamond shape and then added on as you will see from our photographs attached