The Wondai Garden Spring Expo is on again and is shaping up to be bigger and better than ever! This event will see such a wide variety of quality stalls for young and old, devoted gardeners or weekend warriors and for all styles and tastes. Over the last few month’s we’ve had some lovely rain and now is definitely the time to dive into the garden before Winter hits! If you’re looking for inspirational garden art, we have it. What about seeds and seedlings for the next round of your vegie garden? It’s here at the Expo! Need help with fertilising the lawn or nourishing those blooms? We got it! Maybe you’re starting from scratch and need a whole mix of plants to create your sanctuary? We definitely got all of that! So this Autumn, the Wondai Garden Expo has you covered with all things gardening to get you out there enjoying your garden each and every day. There will be stalls with garden art, exotic plants, fertilisers, upcycling, fruit and vegie plants, garden ornaments, pots and plant holders, outdoor furniture, botanical products, fire pits, metal signs and just about any type of plant you might want! We will also have competitions, horticultural displays, hot and cold food and drinks, crafts, clothes, local wine, honey and so much more!
This Autumn our Guest Speakers will include Megan Seiler, Felicity Aitken, Sally Moore and Joy Patch. Megan is from Bottle Tree Organics and will be speaking on Saturday morning at 10am and Sunday morning at 11am. Megan owns and runs a 540 acre permacultural farm where one of their core beliefs is in sharing the knowledge they have gathered within the permaculture industry. At Bottle Tree Organics they grow with care to produce ethical food like vegetables, olives, beef, pork and honey all whilst using traditional organic farming practices to regenerate your health, garden and community through permaculture. Then we will have the bright and bubbly Felicity from Bloom into You demonstrating her unique and elegant talent of working with flowers. So if you want to now what to do with your beautiful blooms that you’ve grown with love, come and watch Felicity transform them into wearable art or even a table centrepiece! Felicity will be speaking at 12noon Saturday, and will have workshops throughout the 2 days of the Expo. Then at 1pm we will have the very experienced Sally Moore from JA’s Herbs Nursery. Sally runs a successful Nursery that concentrates on selling high quality medicinal, culinary, Lavenders, Scented Geraniums, Salvia’s and Violet potted plants. So if you’re wanting to know how to not only grow your own very beautiful and useful garden that you can cook from, heal from, attract bees to and have the best flowers in the neighbourhood, then be sure to check out Sally at 1pm on Saturday! On Sunday the wealth of information and fun continues! At 9:30am on Sunday we are pleased to have the lovely Joy Patch from Beauvale Daylillies. What Joy doesn’t know about daylilies isn’t worth knowing, because Joy knows a lot about daylilies! The colours of daylilies seems endless and very addictive. Joy has been propagating daylilies and other cottage flowers for many years and her gardens are well known and well visited, so be sure to come and listen to Joy on Sunday. Then we’re lucky enough to have Megan from Bottle Tree Organics join us again on Sunday at 11am, so jump in on that talk as well so that you don’t miss a thing!
As I mentioned, we are excited to have the lovely Felicity Aitken from “Bloom into You” back with not only her amazing photo booth for everyone to take their beautiful Instagram photos in, but Felicity will also be hosting her ever popular workshops! The theme for the workshops this Autumn are “Fabulous Floral Fascinators” where anyone can come and create their very own show stopping headpiece for the WoW factor to pair with their outfit for the fashion of field, wedding fashion, beach party or for that weekend festival. These fabulous workshops are proudly supported by the SBRC and RADF Regional Arts Development Fund. For booking details just contact Felicity Aitken on 0400050794.
The Wondai Autumn Garden Expo event will be on Saturday the 20th and Sunday the 21st of April at the Wondai Sportsground, Wondai, with the gates opening at 8am sharp both days. Entry is only $5 each with kids under 15 free and there is plenty of parking and an ATM onsite. If you have a group of 10 or more, then it’s $4 per person prepaid. We have a plant cloakroom with drive through pick up available plus a pick up service throughout the Expo site so that you don’t have to carry your goodies around.
The Wondai Garden Expo has been running since 1996 and we have 2 events every year to support our local community and local organisations including the Wondai Wolves, Wondai Garden Club, Wondai Art Gallery, South Burnett Orchid Society, Wondai, Proston and Goomeri Lions, Wondai, Hivesville and Proston CWA’s with their stalls and raffles. Once the Expo is finished, we then donate financially to these local Organisations and Clubs. After all, the Expo is all about supporting our Community both financially and through increased tourism to the area. And we enjoy supporting a community that supports us. So discover the diversity of gardening in Qld’s best backyard and see what our locals and fellow gardeners are producing by heading to Wondai, where there’s always something on!
