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In 2009 nearly 80,000 visitors attended Ellerslie Flower Show for the first time in Christchurch's Hagley Park. With the record number of visitors attending the show it was a great achievement. The venue, the stunning garden designs and the weather made 2009 an international success.
incredible edibles® show cased in Auckland 2006 winning Gold and the Supreme award for Design Excellence. With our designers we brought fruiting plants from the traditional back garden or in the orchard and brought them into the courtyard creating a complete edible retreat.
  
 
With the buzz and hype surrounding Ellerslie Flower Show in 2009
incredible edibles® are thrilled to be setting up again, so please join us on our journey to Ellerslie Flower Show 2010.
On your journey you will:
- Be introduced to the team who will create this garden
- Take a peep at the intriguing plants that we will use
- Be inspired to create your own
- Challenge tradition and bring edible plants into the front
- Meet the sponsors who will make this garden possible
- See the 'Wow' factor
Key people
 Landscape Designer
We are fortunate to have secured the services of Sandi MacRae, Landscape Designer. Sandi has many years experience in the industry and is very excited to be involved with Ellerslie Flower Show 2010 to show off her skills in creating an edgy yet achievable design.
Here is small part of the brief from Sandi MacRae explaining the design of our 2010 garden:
"It is a family garden that is both productive and beautiful, using combinations that contrast and blend. Every plant used has a function; some familiar; some unexpected. The garden provides shelter, food, fun and a place of either quiet contemplation or play. Individual elements have been chosen to engage and enhance the senses."
 Sandi MacRae, is a well known Christchurch based Landscape Design and Property Enhancement specialist. Her sense of style and proportion enables her to create spaces that will enhance your outdoor living.
Born and bred among plants, Sandi spent her childhood living on a nursery, and has many years experience working in nurseries and as a landscape designer, largely within New Zealand.
Sandi believes "All great landscape designs have one thing in common - a clear idea of the outcome. Even before one spoonful of soil is moved, being able to visualise an existing space with a new look, smell and feel through the changing seasons will deliver a better result. Many clients simply don't know where to start or are over run with ideas."
Last year Sandi was involved in the Concept Plan for the Texture Plants exhibition garden at Ellerslie Flower Show. This year she is excited to be involved as the designer of the incredible edibles®Garden and being able to follow her design right through to its completion.
 Bayliss and Elliot's Nurseriesincredible edibles®
Caroline Elliott has been involved in the horticulture industry since 1993.
Caroline and her husband Jeff have recently merged their business, Elliott's Wholesale Nursery, to become Bayliss and Elliott's Nurseries. As part of this merger they have become the South Island grower of incredible edibles®.
Caroline will be the Project Manager for the incredible edibles®Garden at Ellerslie this year.
"The project in front of us is both really exciting and slightly daunting. To pull together a design that is great on paper and make all the components work in reality is the challenge" says Caroline. "Its fun to be working with a great group of people and to have a challenge in front of us".
Sponsors
 Plant and Food Research
Plant & Food Research works with industry partners to develop new and novel fruit and vegetable cultivars that meet the demands of modern consumers and provide competitive advantage to producers.
By integrating time-honoured breeding techniques and new technologies to speed up the selection of promising new varieties, we are delivering desired traits faster and with enhanced health benefits.
 Daltons
From humble beginnings, Daltons now have a state of the art manufacturing plant and are recognised throughout New Zealand for their Quality Assurance Programme, outstanding customer service and utilisation of natural and renewable resources. Daltons are respected for their strong family values and total commitment to the horticultural industry.
Daltons has grown from supplying shingle and sand, to the manufacture and supply of potting mixes and landscape products. But one thing that hasn't changed in Daltons 60+ years of business is their dedication and commitment to quality and personal service. These are cornerstones of the company.
 Plants that will be featuring in our Garden
Blueberries
Stay Young - Enjoy Life!
The fruit that will relax the mind improve the
memory and colour your  appetite.
Fresh is best:
- Frozen as Ice Lollies or a
summer treat -
- Blueberry Smoothie.
Grapes
- Food of Love and Seduction
- Create summer shade with this highly decorative and graceful plant
- Grow over a fence or arbour. Suited to the small garden.
- Autumn harvest after 2 years of sweet juicy succulent fruit.
 Give them a little care but do not fuss.- High in vitamin A, B1, B2, potassium, iron and dietary fibre.
- Eat fresh or add to salads and desserts. Essential with cheese and crackers.
Orangeberry
 Cascading down a clay bank, flowing over a hanging basket or edging its way along the boarder. A very useful plant used as a decorative addition or to hide an undesirable.
Orangeberry is a fast grower with robust dark green raspberry shaped leaves. Developing a purple tinge during winter but are frost tolerant.
 Arriving in spring are delicate white flowers waiting for the passing bee. Followed by orange-raspberry fruit reminiscent of childhood orange cordial.
Orangeberry fruit are definitely worth the wait, patience is a must. Good things do not happen over night.
Competition
Name the new Hybridberry due for release November 2010.
Email me your 'Creative Name' entry and your location and go in the draw for a carton of incredible edibles®. Include your phone number. Drawn at the end of March 2010. Here are some photos to nurture the brain cells into creativity.
This plant will be in our garden at Ellerslie Flower Show 2010. A succulent sweet fruit bred by Plant and Food Research.
Recently named incredible edibles® plants are;
- Boysenberry Brulée,
- Strawberry Baby Pink™,
- Raspberry Ebony™ and Raspberry Ivory™,
- Tamarillo Tango™.
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