Welcome
Main Sponsors, Pam Golding Properties Grahamstown, and a long list of national, regional and local sponsors once again gave their support to make this event possible. The 2,500L rain water tank sponsored by JoJo Tanks was won by the Kuyasa Special School, and the SlimLine tank by local AHLS member, Margaret Crampton.
Guest speakers, Tanya Visser and David Davidson, gave very interesting and entertaining talks which motivated the enthusiastic gardeners who came to hear them.
The Garden Stalls contingent has again grown, with 38 stallholders spread out over several lawns in the botanical gardens, offering a wide variety of plants and products. All the stallholders were very happy with the trade they enjoyed, and one even considers the Grahamstown Flower Festival to be the best garden festival in the Eastern Cape!
It was very exciting for the festival to have had the Eastern Cape launch of the newly-published coffee-table book Veld, Vlei & Rose Gardens. Local rose collector, Vernon Marais, and author of Marais' chapter in the book, Sid Penney, were present and a number of books were sold.
A special thanks goes to the Grahamstown community for your loyal support of the event - visitors, sponsors, school bands, flower competition entrants, artists who contributed works for the art exhibition, members of the organising committee and the many volunteers and helpers.
Watch this space for breaking news of the 2012 festival!
Sister Festivals
Hogsback Spring Festival
Addo Rose & Garden Show